refinishing metal shifter gate...
 

...my ar has a few decent-sized scratches in the polished/chrome tip shifter gate (so much so that I'd have to remove the gate to fix).

I was thinking about different finishes (brushed or satin aluminum sounded nice), but I think I'll have to do a polished one so that it fits with all the other polished surfaces in the car.

Anyone help me with directions to remove, or maybe suggestions for finishing?

TIA.

Do a search, a few people have done that, in either the A4 or A6 forum.

i took it to a local bodyshop , charged me 25

Can't you just do it with photoshop? :-)

all the world's...
 

.. a comedian.

Do what I did with the chrome on my grille...
 

...spray-paint it flat black (but mask the lighted indicators). It would look...uh...well...um, let me think about it. HPH

I'm in the same boat any idea what a replacement would cost?

Mine had a 1/2" long scratch; dealer replaced free
 

several months after I bought the car.

what did they do to it? It's just plastic, not metal, unless newer ones are different...

That was nice. It is/was a $250 part - at least on my car it can only be ordered as a part of the
 

underlying electronics that are attached to it.

The dealer replaced mine as part of an electroncs malfunction I was having with my TIP, and left the protective plastic stactic-cover on it. I've left it on too, as that's the only way to protect that cheap piece of plastic. My old one was a disaster. The one on my 4.2 was also trashed, after only 20k miles.

Are newer ones replaceable???