2007 B7 Cabrio progress

gsmdo · July 16, 2022

1 hour ago, tommyboy40 said:

The CF trim round the shift and the ashtray cover would polish up very well. I hope that you took it anyway. It’s not the hardest to hand polish. The wood in mine was pretty scratched

Yes, I took them. They aren't too bad, although there's a bit of lifted clear coat on the gear lever surround. If I hadn't already worked on the gear lever surround and ashtray, I'd clean them up and use them...

Trouble is - if I wanted to use them, I'd have to drill holes for the controls (or reposition them - which I'm not minded to do). If I fitted the ashtray without the gear lever surround, it would look odd. I'm just going to keep them in a box, and then they can go as a job lot if I take the trim off to sell it in the future... 😎

Steve Q · July 21, 2022

On 7/16/2022 at 4:00 PM, gsmdo said:

So there I was, thinking, "It's about time I did another search for carbon trim"...

Two hours later...

The trim around the light switch was the most complex to remove - but YouTube guided the way... 😃

It was expensive, but you can't take it with you. Also, it introduced me to a new VAG tuning shop and breakers over in Fakenham, less than half an hour away...😃

The gear lever surround and front ashtray cover weren't in good condition, but, as luck would have it, I didn't need either, as I have a phone charger hard-wired onto the ashtray and the controls for my aftermarket heated seats on the gear lever surround...

(Sorry for the quality of the pic - quite dim in the garage)

So - whilst I had the trim around the headlight switch off, something dropped into the driver's footwell...

...(key for scale). I'm unable to see anything missing (and it may have arrived with the new trim)...

...any ideas?

Apologies for slightly hi-jacking your thread, Tom - I promise I'll shut up now... 😄