S4 Rear Bumper

[4Rings3Liters]

I am looking for some opinions. Should the gray piece over the exhaust on the S4 rear bumper be painted to match a black car or should I leave it gray?

[RAudi Driver]

I vote black

[DuncanC]

Black, Grey looks cheap, If you want to dress things up a little more there is a Carbon fiber one for B7s on E-bay for about $200. You should go that route and report back about the quality. I just blacked out my trim, the grill is being replaced with a Black RS grill in a couple weeks, next up is that rear valance your talking about. If that carbon piece is decent thats probably the way I'll go. (To be honest I think the Carbon fiber will look better with the Imola than your Black)

[JOS4AUDI]

black! I painted mine i love it I didnt like the gray.

[MOFSTEEL]

[Maverick]

I vote black as well or CF overlay.
cut that thing off and have someone overlay it

[Allwheel]

My B6 S4 is silver and I had it painted to match. I think it looks great, even better on a black car! Good luck.

[FastB7S4]

I think differently than everyone else here. I think black trim looks cheap. It makes it look like unpainted molding you find on lower trim levels of various cars. In your case, black would look ok because the car is also black. That's just my opinion, though. 99% of the members here like the black-out theme.

[4Rings3Liters]

Anyone have pics of them painted to match the car?

[nealRlett]

I went satin black to match the grill.

[whartung]

if you scraped all the snow off of mine, my Sprint Blue looks like MOF's. Looks good, and it was easy to do. Mine just ran a tiny bit on the underside to the sides of the exhaust tips. but whatever, its not really noticeable. satin black ftw

[4Rings3Liters]

Well on friday mine will be painted black.

[FastB7S4]

Did you get a B7? Still have the CH's?

[4Rings3Liters]

No it's a B6 and the CHs are sold.

[Monchichi8]

I did mine satin black.

[4Rings3Liters]

I am thinking about going with satin black but I am going to see how it looks painted to match the black shade of the car.

[ghost_whip]

anyone know where/how to get CF overlays? how hard are is it to take off/put on? i think it would look tits with CF mirrors and maybe a CF hood spoiler!

[CruzS4]

satin black would look awesome, although if a CF overlay were possible i think that would look really good, reminiscent of AMG black series

[[email protected]]

Pull the piece off and send it to us for a CF overlay.

[poopypants]

Im in the midst of overlaying mine here at our shop with CF. Also thinking of overlaying the mirrors and door blades. I'll take pics once im done.

[Rothie]

Pull the piece off and send it to us for a CF overlay.

What is the charge for overlaying the rear diffuser??

I found one on ebay for $260 shipped, stilll debating.

Anyone already have carbon fiber on their car so I can see what it looks like??

[FastB7S4]

The ebay CF valence has fitment issues. There was another company on here (tCarbon or something like that) that made them as well and there were major fitment issues. A lot of people were unhappy and had to spend much more money to have a body shop install it for them. Winston above overlays stock valences with CF so there is no fitment problems because it's an OEM piece. There were a few threads about this with pics months ago. I'm sure you can find them with a quick search.

*edit: found a few for you:
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166557
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=219782
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=167126

[[email protected]]

To overlay a B7 insert, dual S-Line exhaust or quad S4 exhaust, is $400

It is not cheap but you get a perfect look and a factory fit. I have had tCarbon owners have us make them a new unit and then sell theirs.

If you want to see what we can do...

S4 piece: http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=163276

S-Line piece: http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=197796

[Rothie]

To overlay a B7 insert, dual S-Line exhaust or quad S4 exhaust, is $400

It is not cheap but you get a perfect look and a factory fit. I have had tCarbon owners have us make them a new unit and then sell theirs.

If you want to see what we can do...

S4 piece: http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=163276

S-Line piece: http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=197796

So, it is $400 shipped to me? No core charge fee or anything like that and then I can sell my old one? How long would this take. Get a hold of me, I hate grey plastic on my car.

[[email protected]]

So, it is $400 shipped to me? No core charge fee or anything like that and then I can sell my old one? How long would this take. Get a hold of me, I hate grey plastic on my car.

$400 is the cost to overlay the piece.

The options for the core is:

- You can send us your piece for conversion

- We can buy a core and charge the cost of that to you as part of your final price

- We can charge you a core exchange fee and you send us your old piece back.

[Rothie]

Can you list out the prices for me? I really want to get one of these on my car sooner versus later. Either list it out here or PM me. Thanks!! How long does one usually take to create??

[Rothie]

Black, Grey looks cheap, If you want to dress things up a little more there is a Carbon fiber one for B7s on E-bay for about $200. You should go that route and report back about the quality. I just blacked out my trim, the grill is being replaced with a Black RS grill in a couple weeks, next up is that rear valance your talking about. If that carbon piece is decent thats probably the way I'll go. (To be honest I think the Carbon fiber will look better with the Imola than your Black)

So, I decided to take the cheap route and buy the one off Ebay. OEM one came off easy enough, but I can't get this other one on. It looks like it should fit, it is much firmer not as flexible, which is causing some of the problems. Has any one gotten this product on. I would apprecitate some help.

[XwalkerX]

not to be a dick but didnt someone mention that the ebay one will have fitment issues???

[sakimano]

doesn't fit? Here's some help...in hindsight....from 6 days ago.

The ebay CF valence has fitment issues. There was another company on here (tCarbon or something like that) that made them as well and there were major fitment issues. A lot of people were unhappy and had to spend much more money to have a body shop install it for them. Winston above overlays stock valences with CF so there is no fitment problems because it's an OEM piece. There were a few threads about this with pics months ago. I'm sure you can find them with a quick search.

*edit: found a few for you:
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166557
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=219782
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=167126

[FastB7S4]

I warned you. Check the threads I posted above. You should be able to get it on, but you will have to modify the CF piece. It will take a lot of work. Do a search for "tCarbon valence" and you should find all the threads that pertain to installing it.

[Rothie]

Can't blame me for trying to save $400. With the live search 25% off, I got this for $150. If it doesn't work, I guess I will be out some $$, but if it does, I will be all set.