pfishwacker

Love my '04 A8L, but the interior has taken a beating (and Audi has not used the best parts or design). Anybody know of a resource for interior trim items and/or restoration? For example, the printing on some of the more often used buttons has rubbed off, some lighting needs upgrading, etc. Some I can do and some will require higher skills. I'd like to get this vehicle as old as I am. Any thoughts?

MP4.2+6.0

I went for door lock switch, mirror control, fuel lid (& other) switches, push button start and overhead console (outer trim cover is sold separately from the electronics underneath if you look at parts listings really closely). I forget if I did window switches. If it is a black trim part like that and the graphics aren't really affected, you can touch it up with some simple Black Sharpie work here and there, which also tones down the illuminated lighting behind those kinds of parts at night.

Basically came down to pulling door trim apart, removing console trim and the overhead panel. Fuel lid switch was the hard one; door pocket is tricky to work around. Spent something in the range of $500 for parts as I recall and DIY'ed it at about 100K miles. Less than a single Audi car payment for a new one; part of "re upping" for at least a few more years and having both clean interior and exterior.

Disagree BTW with general thoughts on Audi quality and design. A beautiful design, including behind the visible stuff when you pull it apart. Puts the vaunted Toyota --and about 10 other vehicles I've owned--quality to shame, where the basic leather in a pretty contemporaneous 2004 was cracking noticeably by 100K, let alone the outright distorted and discolored plastics and such, worn off graphics, etc. Of course since many nice D3 touches weren't illuminated either, some you didn't notice as much w/ night driving. Never mind you couldn't even see the control...