MarkWayneClark

I ordered aluminum because I didn't want to pay extra, figured the shiny carbon would show scratches more easily, and thought that the carbon made the interior too uniformly black.

Now I'm worried!

India Whiskey Charlie

Of course! Your car could easily add-up to $150k if you bought it in parts...

BTW, if you want, you can also do a wrap. I know many people who did this themselves but there are lots of companies who will do it for you as well.

Services ? WANNABE RACER CAR WRAPS

Sforfun

Tameautumn

Right - just managed to squeeze the upgrade change to Carbon Inlays

Jhbrew

farmerjones

I agree....the brushed aluminum on the S cars doesn't seem to hold up as well as the aluminum patterns on "lesser" trims. The basic A4 has aluminum trim, and when I see loaner cars they are not dented or scratched. However I have seen a number of "S" cars that have dents and scratches. it's a shame really....I think the S cars get a crummy choices for trim. My TT has 30,000 miles now, and there is not a dent ding or scratch, but ti's the highly patterned aluminum. To me the carbon fiber trim just blends in with the black interiors and is barely even noticeable, a real disappointment. I wish they offered some "wow" trim on the S cars, like the anthracite-alluminum TT trim I have or the black and aluminum pinstriped wood.

SYMAWD

When they did offer the black wood with aluminum pin stripe for the B8 generation, I think I've seen a total of 1 car equipped with it. I personally thought it looked fantastic but it certainly did not sell well and I could see why it is no longer offered.

MarkWayneClark

Now you all have me nervous about ordering the aluminum. I prefer the way it looks--but not it's all dented and scratched!

PGrefal

carbon fiber all the way!

farmerjones

For the same reason Audi fails to offer us ANY "fun" interior choices....it didn't sell... because Audi didn't build any cool color/trim combos for stock, dealers won't order anything but black and silver anything with "safe" options, and many Audi buyers simply didn't know an option was available (because you can't ever see it in real life in dealer inventory) or were unable to wait for a special-order build.

The black pinstriped wood was HUGLY popular in the A6/A7 cars, and I've never meet someone that didn't think that it wasn't amazing. So I find it not convincing to say "it didn't sell well" was ACTUALLY due to customers not liking it.... It's the same fate for two-toned seats and most Audi Design Select packages along with "bold" colors. Apparently piano-black trim (aka lacquered plastic) is all the rage and worth paying extra for, or we can go for the drab carbon fiber that has potential to be cool but pair it with all-black interiors that make it blend in and virtually unnoticeable. How about the color-carbon weave being made available product-wide? Audi is too reserved to do that.

It just like saying they cancelled some trim for "lack of demand"...but then they launch a new RS model and put it there. It's cool enough for an RS car, but you cancelled it because of "lack of demand" on other models? You can't have it both ways. It's just cost-cutting with fewer choices, plain and simple. I find the brushed aluminum in most S cars looks like it should be a base-car trim, it's that boring to me personally. Look at the other allumium color tints or patters that exist...there are better choices. Why not do copper metal trim, or drift wood like Volvo, or stone veneers....just spice up the interiors already, plenty would put down money for it if the dealers had cars to see before they ordered or purchased. This is a problem plaguing almost every manufacturer right now.