BoxyA2
Well-Known Member
Well were are all aware that the roof furniture in soul black is somewhat impossible to find and id need to re mortgage the house to buy it from audi if they indeed had it in (which they don't).. so after some thought I went about creating the LOOK of OEM products at a snip of the price.. so
to start get a set or even use your own.. I brought a full set from @A2Steve for what id consider CHEAP.. and striped them down
I then found a very friendly body shop to do the honours in MATT black
Ok so now there painted what do you do about the buttons ?? Well i brought 2x of these from Fleabay at a reasonable £10.00 each posted.. I harvested the button covers from each this maintains the red LED look when its dark..
I then set about rebuilding the units in black alarm sensor easy clips together.. Lights are pretty much straight forward.. I used a glue gun to aide the tabs I had to cut off during taking them to bits ..
finished article should look like
and a huge improvement from the standard IMO.
Ok i hear you say what about the sun visors.. well the middle one are 10 a penny in black anyhow as there use in the TT £6 eBay, right the sun visors from the TT don't fit.. But the visors from the A4 do (with some fettling) so in keeping I will be replacing those with black leather ones (when they arrive) still audi albeit not standard.. All in all with paint, donor button panels,and visors the whole furniture set me back in the region of £150.00 not bad for a soul black look i think..
Will upload a pic of it all fitted once its not dark outside.. should go well with the Charcoal Alcantara roof lining i have.. One happy man and another MOD.... DONE !!!
to start get a set or even use your own.. I brought a full set from @A2Steve for what id consider CHEAP.. and striped them down
I then found a very friendly body shop to do the honours in MATT black
Ok so now there painted what do you do about the buttons ?? Well i brought 2x of these from Fleabay at a reasonable £10.00 each posted.. I harvested the button covers from each this maintains the red LED look when its dark..
I then set about rebuilding the units in black alarm sensor easy clips together.. Lights are pretty much straight forward.. I used a glue gun to aide the tabs I had to cut off during taking them to bits ..
finished article should look like
and a huge improvement from the standard IMO.
Ok i hear you say what about the sun visors.. well the middle one are 10 a penny in black anyhow as there use in the TT £6 eBay, right the sun visors from the TT don't fit.. But the visors from the A4 do (with some fettling) so in keeping I will be replacing those with black leather ones (when they arrive) still audi albeit not standard.. All in all with paint, donor button panels,and visors the whole furniture set me back in the region of £150.00 not bad for a soul black look i think..
Will upload a pic of it all fitted once its not dark outside.. should go well with the Charcoal Alcantara roof lining i have.. One happy man and another MOD.... DONE !!!