josefah

The brushed aluminum interior trim on my car is looking kind of bad. It's chipping in a couple places from the previous owner. Does anyone know where I can get a good replacement?

Thanks so much!

Josef

TBau651

depending on how deep the chipping is you may want to look into vinyl wrapping the interior trim pieces It's fairly cheap and will allow you to change up the color/texture a bit if you wanted to as well.

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Bocian

I agree with TBau, try vinyl. It can actually look good. If it's chipping, sand it smooth and vinyl it. I've been messing around with my trim. Currently used teckwrap gloss carbon fiber. Once I get bored of it I'll go with black brushed aluminum. It's relatively cheap and changes the interior and it was only 20$ for the entire interior.

HTH

08STLX

Bocian do you recommend sanding the aluminum to get it smoother for the vinyl and if so what grit?

Car looks great BTW. I googled the brushed black alum. and found my next project; hopefully it will look good on tan.

TBau651

Unless you have deep chips/dents/gouges I would say you probably don't need to sand it down. Hard to say without seeing the condition of your trim.

08STLX

Yeah I was looking it over at lunch and it was pretty smooth. I'll probably clean it up real well and just put the wrap over the top.

I think door trim can be left on but I will def remove the dash and console pieces.

Warlock5150

that carbon fiber vinyl looks terrific

Bocian

I was referring to the chipping that the op has mentioned, otherwise no sanding is needed, just thorough cleaning. And it's best to remove the door trim completely.

Going back to the op, if youre set on replacing the trim, try car-part.com, it's a collection of salvage yards where you can search by distance as well. They usually have cars for parts. I doubt they'll have the individual trim pieces listed but if you search for doors or interior panels, you can probably call and see if they'd be OK with splitting up the trim. I've done that before and was able to find small pita to find interior parts. Hth

08STLX

can you take the door trim off sans removing the panel?

iCrap

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Don't sand the trim.. there is no point. The wrap will cover small imperfections anyways.

Also, no you can't take off the trim without removing the panel

08STLX

Dangggg....I better order some door panels clips since I know I will kill a few of those lol

TBau651

For reference on the door panels, they're not very hard....

08STLX

That's not bad at all! Plus it answered another question for me TY!