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Car is now MOT'd so no excuses for not cracking on with the DSG swap... other than lack of motivation at the moment!!... the recent rather warm weather and being a little busy work wise has numbed my enthusiasm some what coupled with spending a good couple of months sorting the body work out I feel I just needed a break...
That break will be coming soon as a week off work in which time I might even build up a bit of motivation to make a start... in the mean time... I bought these...
My car never had them fitted as standard (they were an option?) and have been on the fence about getting some... however these came up at the right price and are for the most part in decent nick... they were dirty obvs and had a couple of scratches on the ali covers but generally nice..
Taking them apart was a bit of a pain as one of the screws snapped off in the casting... I will address this at a later date but its not really made it unusable...
Painted the inside...
And cleaned everything else up... used the DA on the ali cover... which I am pretty sure is anodised... this means that it will make removing the scratches a bit more difficult so will ask a few of my engineering friends for advice on sorting this out...
All looks lots better though...
...and as my car is silver they do not look too obvious either...
Pretty happy with that... although I now have the gear to mod for folding mirrors and the bases won't work with the ali covers... would need to get B5 ones I believe to get it working... and tbh I CBA
Next little job was to sort out the DSG selector... or more the colour of it... I have only been able to find 'grey' leather ones... the S3 8P is black I believe but they typically run to 3 times the amount of a more basic model so decided to dye the leather instead....
I got the kit from the 'Scratch Doctors' and its pretty comprehensive...
Following the instructions I cleaned off the original coating then applied the black dye...
Finished off using the matt clear coat they supply...
For comparison this is the original grey knob (fnarr) against the now black gaiter it came with....
I also found a perforated leather knob (fnarr) that was grey... now black
Put together in the modded trim...
Happy with that
With all that out of the way I moved a load of the kit needed for the DSG swap into the boot of the car... hoping that knowing this is there it will get the motivation going to crack on lol
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That break will be coming soon as a week off work in which time I might even build up a bit of motivation to make a start... in the mean time... I bought these...
My car never had them fitted as standard (they were an option?) and have been on the fence about getting some... however these came up at the right price and are for the most part in decent nick... they were dirty obvs and had a couple of scratches on the ali covers but generally nice..
Taking them apart was a bit of a pain as one of the screws snapped off in the casting... I will address this at a later date but its not really made it unusable...
Painted the inside...
And cleaned everything else up... used the DA on the ali cover... which I am pretty sure is anodised... this means that it will make removing the scratches a bit more difficult so will ask a few of my engineering friends for advice on sorting this out...
All looks lots better though...
...and as my car is silver they do not look too obvious either...
Pretty happy with that... although I now have the gear to mod for folding mirrors and the bases won't work with the ali covers... would need to get B5 ones I believe to get it working... and tbh I CBA
Next little job was to sort out the DSG selector... or more the colour of it... I have only been able to find 'grey' leather ones... the S3 8P is black I believe but they typically run to 3 times the amount of a more basic model so decided to dye the leather instead....
I got the kit from the 'Scratch Doctors' and its pretty comprehensive...
Following the instructions I cleaned off the original coating then applied the black dye...
Finished off using the matt clear coat they supply...
For comparison this is the original grey knob (fnarr) against the now black gaiter it came with....
I also found a perforated leather knob (fnarr) that was grey... now black
Put together in the modded trim...
Happy with that
With all that out of the way I moved a load of the kit needed for the DSG swap into the boot of the car... hoping that knowing this is there it will get the motivation going to crack on lol
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