Rhoomba

...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.

2tuŽbos1mission

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

xalwafix

i took it to a local bodyshop , charged me 25

Ollie

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

Rhoomba

.. a comedian.

HPH

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

GeoS4V8

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

MachineMan

several months after I bought the car.

Sarge

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

Sarge

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???