Interior almost done. from ugliest gray to satin black

[golgo13]

opinions welcome and the DiY would have taken way too long so if you have any questions i will be happy to answer just pm me and add to my rep

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BTW it got too dark but the carpet is now all black as well. Headliner will be changed too but I need opinions on what I should do with it.

Rear seats will be done by tomorrow.

[onceover]

it looks a little too black and shiny.

props for doing it though

[ridelikeme]

enjoy the rattles. ill be the first to let you know that our interior only ever gets put together perfectly once. congrats on being brave enough to take on such a task!

[AMC]

so your rattle canned your interior??? no offense dude i only thought honda owners would do such a thing.

[golgo13]

ALL of you are a bunch of naggers. YEs go give props to the kid that spent 40k to do the same thing. silly kids
rattles? sure if you dont know what you are doing. the doors have been done for a week and no sound is coming out of anything

[Alphazuzu]

I really hope you knew what you were doing. I painted the interior of my Kia and it was good enough for that but had major flaws. it is near impossible to permanently spray-paint something without major sanding and sealing. I followed the graffiti trim and thought that was a great idea. It would have looked great in a B6 that came with the black interior (like mine) . I thought yours was too and got excited. It looks great now I just hope it stays that way. And again props on the graffiti trim.

And your car in general I like the white on black. and still need to know how you got the rear trunk trim piece off to paint it.

[AMC]

ALL of you are a bunch of naggers. YEs go give props to the kid that spent 40k to do the same thing. silly kids
rattles? sure if you dont know what you are doing. the doors have been done for a week and no sound is coming out of anything

then if u didnt like it y did u buy it? sell it and buy a car of your liking

[golgo13]

what the hell are you talking about?
for the guy who asked about the rear trim off just be brave and pry it off with a thin flat head and just pull it off is not too difficult you just have to be a bit brave GL

[Pothole]

WOW you must have a lot of free time or determination, actually probably both
looks real good and massive props for doing it
and i love the Taco Bell carpet

what are you gonna do about the steering wheel? seems like the paint would rub off
cant wait to see the final pictures

[golgo13]

I really hope you knew what you were doing. I painted the interior of my Kia and it was good enough for that but had major flaws. it is near impossible to permanently spray-paint something without major sanding and sealing. I followed the graffiti trim and thought that was a great idea. It would have looked great in a B6 that came with the black interior (like mine) . I thought yours was too and got excited. It looks great now I just hope it stays that way. And again props on the graffiti trim.

And your car in general I like the white on black. and still need to know how you got the rear trunk trim piece off to paint it.

IT's not just regular spray paint no worries. LOts of acetone and washing was involved as well.

[golgo13]

WOW you must have a lot of free time or determination, actually probably both
looks real good and massive props for doing it
and i love the Taco Bell carpet

what are you gonna do about the steering wheel? seems like the paint would rub off
cant wait to see the final pictures

Im not doing the wheel. For now im just going to ignore it :( it would not be practical. Free time well yes it was a sunday so
taco bell carpet was given to a while back as my 18th Bday present by one of my good friends i cut it to fit the trunk LOL i love it.

[manhertm]

It's look like the interior of a 98 Chevy Cavalier. Hit it with some matte spray dude, way too shiny.

[nytildie914]

i say you go buy yourself an rs4 wheel, and use this as your excuse to buy it

[jon102034050]

looks like nice work, I sure wouldnt mind the glossy over the pealing that my black interior looks like

btw, I am sure this has been asked, but are you just really good at painting or is it a profession? Cause your trim looks hella nice

[Torqie]

uhhhg paint will peel soon enough.. Cleaning it sucks.. You can never get it as nice as stock interior.. I would have just left it alone or bought a car with black already there. Just my 2 cents though...

[srsly]

it does look shiny but do I see an RS4 steering wheel in your future?

[pipe7284]

Damn,Carlos, nice job on painting your dashboard. I like it!!!, but change that focking steering wheel, looks like shit like that. go and start looking for an RS4 steering wheel.

[Torqie]

Damn,Carlos, nice job on painting your dashboard. I like it!!!, but change that focking steering wheel, looks like shit like that. go and start looking for an RS4 steering wheel.

what makes you think he wants to spend the money on a RS4 steering wheel if he resorted to painting his interior?

[Torqie]

so your rattle canned your interior??? no offense dude i only thought honda owners would do such a thing.

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[FourRingsB6]

It does look a little glossy, but that might be more the pictures than anything else. You got more balls than me. Personally, I would've gone white with a shitload of neons in that ish.

[AudiA4_20T]

i like it

[KareemA4]

nice

[Dopefish]

Congrats on the change! This car looks awesome outside and now the inside is a little sportier! I'm digging the Taco Bell trunk trim as well. I'd still look at slowly converting to all OE black components as the finish will be more natural but it looks like yours came out well. Has the glossiness settled down a bit after curing? It actually reminds me of the finish of the B5 interiors, they always seemed to have a shinier natural finish than the B6 change over.

You guys are throwing a lot of trash his way for doing something himself instead of paying someone else; why?! Using the original black parts WOULD be better but it isn't really cost effective and every other swap I've seen so far painted at least something if not large portions of things inside to match instead of getting the OE parts. For the record, if none of you have noticed, the factory interior components are molded out of plastics similar to their final color but they are then painted with a polymer coating for the final finished color that Audi desired. You can get paint that finishes just like the OE coating but maybe that isn't exactly what he was after anyways.

Did you get some black leather seats to or are you still using the platinum?

[chadb2434]

looks good, take some pics when your completely done!

[davidlizard]

Maybe you work very hard on that project but I dont like the finish result. It look like a cheap plastic interior whit a lot of ArmorAll. I think It's very far from the classy and subtle OEM finish and I'm really not sure about the long lasting of that paint. I think you decrease a lot the value of your car and seriously I like much better the way it was before... Can't wait to see that paint peel under the sun... Nice try but not a succes to me.

[kwimberly]

How are the paint fumes?

[absolutegtr]

What did you do about the dash? Did you remove it?

I think it looks good, but I would definitely buy a black steering wheels and airbag. I am on the lookout for a B6 door panel and I want to dye that with probably a matte black and see how it comes out and holds up to my abuse before I ever paint the rest of my interior.

It all depends on the paint you used...I have heard that the SEM junk is good

[mishu28]

It doesn't look good so shiny.

[bmags88]

Props for doing it. What did you do with the seats? Did you paint those to?

[Maverick]

good work, must been a lot.

[golgo13]

all this talk about shiny. There is a huge light hitting inside the car because of the damn day light savings took all of my sunlight and i wanted it finished . Whoever said that the gray looked better you sir are on some kind of crack.
The rear seats are going to be changed for black ones with a little subtle of white. the fronts along with the steering wheel will be changed but only with time. sportsters and maybe an rs4 wheel.

After painting one door I didnt even think of buying OEM there was no point to me besides the fumes for a couple of days LOL

[golgo13]

Damn,Carlos, nice job on painting your dashboard. I like it!!!, but change that focking steering wheel, looks like shit like that. go and start looking for an RS4 steering wheel.

Buy me one after you finally fix your car you dirty mexican.

[akarol]

Fugly!

[golgo13]

What did you do about the dash? Did you remove it?

I think it looks good, but I would definitely buy a black steering wheels and airbag. I am on the lookout for a B6 door panel and I want to dye that with probably a matte black and see how it comes out and holds up to my abuse before I ever paint the rest of my interior.

It all depends on the paint you used...I have heard that the SEM junk is good

Everything was removed except the dash. I just didn't have the patience. So a ton of newspaper and painters tape was used. Ill take better pictures next weekend sometime so people out there who have been thinking about it will go ahead. Honda owners have been doing this for years LOL they got balls i guess audi people have nothad theirs dropped yet.

[absolutegtr]

Whta kind of paint did you use?

[StaringBack]

Graffiti trim, spray painted interior, and Taco Bell carpet? Call me a hater, but someone needs to take this car out back and shoot it. Completely trashy, I'd rather drive a stock Civic.

[golgo13]

drive a stock civic then.
I used SEM vinyl and plastic paint

[absolutegtr]

drive a stock civic then.
I used SEM vinyl and plastic paint

wheres about did you buy it.

ignore the haters

[teg2audi]

I'm all for orginality, but from experience when spray paint is used it usually equals a bad decision. I would have stuck with the "ugliest gray" because that is not "satin black".

[Capt. Obvious]

I'm holding judgment until you get some better pictures.

At least you used the proper materials to do the work with, so you have that going for you. It looks like you didn't get very good coverage though and may have a lot of streaks and stripes from poor painting technique.