My "Black Optiks" mod...

[Jet Jockey]

So after the car arrived at the dealers in June, I had the rear spoiler painted and installed and the brake calipers painted prior to delivery.

Now I just finished a complete make over of the car by completely doing a "Black Optiks" conversion... So here it is.

Took the pictures real fast today so they are not the greatest in quality. The purpose of this mod is/was to get rid of all the chromed trims on the car. The only two badges remaining that are not changes are the two S-Line badges. The mod turned out really great and IMHO the car looks sportier and somewhat meaner.


The door and window chromed trims were wrapped in gloss black vinyl. Europrice could have gotten me the OE "Black Optiks" trims but the cost was upwards of $2200 plus taxes landed in Canada!



Another angle.




Europrice got me the complete OE "Black Optiks" front grilles kit (3 separate grilles), the "Black Optiks" camera mount and plate delete filler.




Close up of the main grille and the two lower side grilles. The Audi logo does come with the kit but it is chromed so I decided to have it painted Tango Red for a more punchy effect.




Another angle.




Another angle.




Onto the rear end of the car... The Audi logo was painted gloss black.




Originally I wanted to debadge the car (A4, Quattro signs and the TFSI). I asked the dealer to do it for me and unfortunately they scratched the car while doing it. It was a very small scratch but deep enough that even polishing it could not get rid of it. They offered to pay for the paint job to repair the scratch ($400) but instead I came up with the idea… They should just pay for a new A4 badge ($65) and pay for it to get painted gloss black (to match the Audi logo). They agreed. The A4 badge once installed would cover up the very small scratch and everyone would be happy.




Of course the chromed exhaust tips had to go too. So off to the powder coating shop they went... Shinny gloss black please!




Close up once installed... Also as you can see the rear valence and the fake mesh trim were also painted gloss black.




Another angle.




The complete rear end view.

[Vaks]

Damn that's one sweet B9! Now all you need is some dark tints.

[Jet Jockey]

Damn that's one sweet B9! Now all you need is some dark tints.

Unfortunately here in Quebec that's the maximum tint the front windows can be (allow 70% of the light through). My rear windows are all at 50%.

[RCnik]

Just my 2 cents... I also live in Quebec, currently in Repentigny area and travel to montreal on a daily basis for work, so I see the SQ and Mtl police regularly and they never bothered me about my tints. I have 35% in the front and 20% in the back. I also had them right next to me on 2 occasions at a red light and they didn't do anything.


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