What did you do to your B8 today?

[OB1]

Grill/Grille - worth the wait, I'd say
Pic nice subtle P-Shop work.
Monsoon Grey?

What photoshop work???

Yes, Monsoon grey.

[Okan509]

Woke up this morning with an urge to paint something. So I went and visited the parents so I could turn their garage into a clean room (well sorta clean) and paint a few things. Very pleased with how it came out, waaaaay better than I expected. Just need to paint the chrome window surround now and I'll be chrome free...well except for the exhaust tips.

OG:


New Look:


Also This:


Sitting Very Pretty:

wasup twin

[Okan509]

re-did my center caps

[audinepa]

re-did my center caps

Plasti dipped, wrapped or painted?

[Okan509]

dipped, took the rings off and the chrome outer, dipped, and re-applied

[Audacious]

re-did my center caps

I need to do this. brb.

[Liquid Smoke]

What photoshop work???

Yes, Monsoon grey.

nice car, looks great with that grille and wheels. and by photoshop work, im assuming Greg just meant the overall photo filter/effect, and not actually modifying the car itself in photoshop.

[OB1]

nice car, looks great with that grille and wheels. and by photoshop work, im assuming Greg just meant the overall photo filter/effect, and not actually modifying the car itself in photoshop.

Phew!
I didn't catch the guys name, but it's not my photo. I just found it in a flickr cars and coffee group, ha!

[bennydub]

had my cts fmic kit installed at cts turbo today!

i was the grand prize winner of their fb contest. so far so good!

[Pared]

What photoshop work???

Yes, Monsoon grey.

I'm sure he means professional shop work. But when they get that age you never know! ;)

[Highlander1010]

• R8 Oil Cap
• ECS Oil Dipstick
• p3 Gague
• RS4 Replica Grille (M-Drop)

Pics coming soon.

[NoR32]

Finally got that grill I've been waiting for since June...

What suspension you running?

[AWDLover]

25k maintenance, brake line flush, and road force balance. Boring stuff for the $ spent...

[bradenpoole]

Just bought a RS4 replica grille waiting to Receive be about a week.

[NoR32]

Sunday festivities

Preped and painted my crash bar and installed the infamous RS4 grille. With CHROME TRIM!!









Took off the OEM chrome price and swapped it with the silver that it came with. Was a bitch to do and my fingers were not happy.

[phatAvant]

Looks great Chase

[OB1]

What suspension you running?

H&R street coilovers.

[auditd0rk]

H&R street coilovers.

That picture alone makes me want to run out and buy coilovers .

[Mrav]

That picture alone makes me want to run out and buy coilovers .

Seconded.

[OB1]

That picture alone makes me want to run out and buy coilovers .

What's stopping you??

I must say, just the drop makes it look like a different car. :)

[NoR32]

Washed it and put the rings on my RS grille

[if6ws9]

Installed an RS grille

[if6ws9]

Had a friend Vinyl Wrap my chrome surround on my grille

I have to do that tomorrow but my roll of vinyl is only 3" wide. Any suggestions?

[Okan509]

I have to do that tomorrow but my roll of vinyl is only 3" wide. Any suggestions?

I don't think you'll be able to do it without doing it with multiple pieces. The vinyl won't want to "turn" that much... that only way to do it in one piece is to do it with a big sheet, IMO.

BTW I failed at attempting to wrap my surround(with the same thing), ended up painting it. The seems just weren't perfect enough for me...

[tenfour]

My tow hook plate frame was a little off. Finally fixed it today.

[if6ws9]

I don't think you'll be able to do it without doing it with multiple pieces. The vinyl won't want to "turn" that much... that only way to do it in one piece is to do it with a big sheet, IMO.

BTW I failed at attempting to wrap my surround(with the same thing), ended up painting it. The seems just weren't perfect enough for me...

Thanks. What did you paint it with?

[TheHeiko]

Chrome trim mod to stock grille. Audi's OEM kit: $140. This mod: $8.

[Liquid Smoke]

^ ^nice, did the same to mine, except no filler plate so just the top 3 and the bottom 1, and also did it to the middle 'blade' on the fog grilles. and yea bought a $14 roll of the stuff from autozone, looks perfect and is actually more durable and stays on real strong.

[Highlander1010]

re-did my center caps

Think I'm doing this tomorrow with Gloss Black 3M wrap!

[Highlander1010]

Last week I put the new M-Plop RS4 Grille in:


And today I finally found some spray paint I liked to get my black rings to match the new alu-optic trim look edge of the new grille:


And the resulting drying rings look like this:



The match appears excellen to to me in person. The paint has a bit of "metalic flake" to it, but not much at all IMHO, which made me happy. I'm really not a huge chrome fan (I gloss black wrapped my window trim) on the outside of my car, and much prefer an aluminum look. Tomorrow when the rings are dry and it is sunny again I'll post final pics on the street here.

[if6ws9]

Last week I put the new M-Plop RS4 Grille in:


And today I finally found some spray paint I liked to get my black rings to match the new alu-optic trim look edge of the new grille:


And the resulting drying rings look like this:



The match appears excellen to to me in person. The paint has a bit of "metalic flake" to it, but not much at all IMHO, which made me happy. I'm really not a huge chrome fan (I gloss black wrapped my window trim) on the outside of my car, and much prefer an aluminum look. Tomorrow when the rings are dry and it is sunny again I'll post final pics on the street here.

Looks good, thanks for the tip about the color paint.

[Splatrat]

as said here, unfortunatly you will need a piece of vinyl that will cover the whole grille and work it it to the corners etc...a little patience and you'll get it perfect :) mine looks like it came like that from factory.

I don't think you'll be able to do it without doing it with multiple pieces. The vinyl won't want to "turn" that much... that only way to do it in one piece is to do it with a big sheet, IMO.

BTW I failed at attempting to wrap my surround(with the same thing), ended up painting it. The seems just weren't perfect enough for me...

[TCHUN003]

Hey Highlander, that looks great! Does it match the brushed aluminum look of the outer trim on the RS4 grill? I need to re-do my mirror caps and I'm looking for different paint because the one I used can't be used with clear coat because it turns it yellow for some reason.

[Liquid Smoke]

Hey Highlander, that looks great! Does it match the brushed aluminum look of the outer trim on the RS4 grill? I need to re-do my mirror caps and I'm looking for different paint because the one I used can't be used with clear coat because it turns it yellow for some reason.

lol same issue i had, but i was trying it on my exhaust tips, wanted to see if i could get a nice matte alu look and used some rustoleum metallic paint, but once i put this gloss clear coat over it it turned nasty yellow brown looking, just used some goo off to get the paint off and left em chrome, looks better anyway.

[Pared]

As a fan of the alu - well done Highlander. Beautiful.

[NoR32]

Last week I put the new M-Plop RS4 Grille in:


And today I finally found some spray paint I liked to get my black rings to match the new alu-optic trim look edge of the new grille:


And the resulting drying rings look like this:



The match appears excellen to to me in person. The paint has a bit of "metalic flake" to it, but not much at all IMHO, which made me happy. I'm really not a huge chrome fan (I gloss black wrapped my window trim) on the outside of my car, and much prefer an aluminum look. Tomorrow when the rings are dry and it is sunny again I'll post final pics on the street here.

Love the aluminum trim on your car and the emblems will look great too! You doing the rear too?.

[Highlander1010]

So far so good. Finished the 2nd coat of clear today, dried and put on the car. I found a rear set on eBay (since I already did mine black) and will try to make them this alu look too. Then I'm thinking about masking off the small fin on my rear valence a la the S4 and doing that as well. I'm going to stop short of the mirror housings though. I think it would work, but wonder about durability. I think I might have my body shop do the mirrors if I choose that later.

Now that my wife is back with the Nikon DSLR I'll try to take some sunny pics this week to show the final results.

[if6ws9]

I don't think you'll be able to do it without doing it with multiple pieces. The vinyl won't want to "turn" that much... that only way to do it in one piece is to do it with a big sheet, IMO.

BTW I failed at attempting to wrap my surround(with the same thing), ended up painting it. The seems just weren't perfect enough for me...

I wrapped the trim today with the 3"roll and it worked out well. Using the hair dryer to soften the vinyl helps it to go around the curves.

[kwbdc]

Tried to direct wire my radar detector using this method http://forums.audiworld.com/showthread.php?t=2804450 but had some issues with getting a good power source with the homelink will try again tomorrow.

[Okan509]

I wrapped the trim today with the 3"roll and it worked out well. Using the hair dryer to soften the vinyl helps it to go around the curves.

good job, I had a heat gun, didn't help, it was a PITA, and I've wrapped a bunch of shit, interior trim etc.