Mirror Swap

[Ben Newsome]

Hi all,

I pick up my new S3 on Saturday and it has chrome mirrors that I wanted to change for body coloured.
Basically wanted to know what's worth more?
Would I be able to get a swap easily enough?
The car is Sepang Blue.

Thanks
Ben.

 

[Rob2k68]

Hi Ben, Congratulations on the new car !!

The chrome mirrors should sell for £200 ish on ebay easily enough. For maybe £100 you could buy primed caps from Audi and have them painted if you know a reasonable paint shop. I did something similar on a Leon FR I had and changed from Titanium to Nevada white. There are a few guides on here on how to change the caps - it's easy enough you just need to take your time.

 

[Rob2k68]

Found it :-

http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/thread...overs-how-to-remove-them.260807/#post-2669922

 

[Ben Newsome]

Thanks Rob. Very helpful!

 

[richinsoton]

I wonder if you could get them successfully 'wrapped' in body colour cheaper as another option?.

 

[Rob2k68]

Some people have wrapped them black which looks good on red and sepang especially if you have the Black Sports Pack.

 

[xBox]

.... be wanting a single port exhaust next

 

[RO65ERS]

i need to colour code my mirror caps!

pay over the odds for a BSP and still have chrome / silver on the vehicle! Grrr!

 

[batch]

I'm just about to sell my side-assist S3 mirrors to a chap from the US who has body-coloured Sepang ones, might be worth seeing if anyone over there would fancy a swap?

 

[RO65ERS]

oh sod the hassle of shipping to the states.
sod shipping anywhere, i hate posting things... mainly because i shipped a 1500 quid exhaust to yorkshire, and it got lost and royal fail wouldn't accept the loss and i was big fat out of pocket!
yup it was posted as recorded and insured too, they still went back on it!

 

[msdmjb]

I for one hate the silver wing mirror covers and ordered body coloured ones when you could, looks so much better i think.
There was some Audi confusion about what I was getting so also spoke to local Oxford Audi dealer who gave me their preferred body shop contact details, think it would have came out about £200 all in for the pair to be done in body colour. When the car was delivered it had them already so was chuffed. Failing that just order a new pair and fit them, small fry if you have just picked up a new car.
p.s. I am also the kinda guy who would debadge it and put a single exhaust port as well, so like the plain jane A3 look

 

[pburv]

oh sod the hassle of shipping to the states.
sod shipping anywhere, i hate posting things... mainly because i shipped a 1500 quid exhaust to yorkshire, and it got lost and royal fail wouldn't accept the loss and i was big fat out of pocket!
yup it was posted as recorded and insured too, they still went back on it!

Must be a 'tricked out' post van in Yorkshire somewhere...lol

 

[RO65ERS]

Must be a 'tricked out' post van in Yorkshire somewhere...lol

it was a carbon Akrapovic system for an R6. I'm sure the combo van has an awesome note to it now.

 

[S3JOJ]

Purely out of interest; what's your motivation for wanting to swap them?

 

[K4RL]

I went for body coloured as in my street there's Volvos, Seats, Fiats & others all with sliver caps - think it's the current fashion to have either black or silver caps.

 

[pburv]

I went for body coloured as in my street there's Volvos, Seats, Fiats & others all with sliver caps - think it's the current fashion to have either black or silver caps.

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Nice looking motor you got there K4RL...

 

[Ben Newsome]

Purely out of interest; what's your motivation for wanting to swap them?

Purely a preference thing. I don't like anything chrome. The car has a black pack but still has chrome mirrors.