Gloss black Ski Slope advice

[paulrog1]

Hi,

I currently have a wood upper centre dash ski slope, I really like the piano black look so I'm thinking about having this wood panel sprayed black at my local car paintshop.

Has anyone done this? if so what did it look like?

I have looked at purchasing a piano black item but I'm shocked at the price £800+ !!!!!

Thanks for any replies.

The wood dash in my car -


Gloss black item -

Edited by paulrog1 on Friday 21st October 13:09

[Noogly]

I got mine changed by the dealer when I bought it

Astomartinbits might have a suitable second hand one.


I have never used Astomartinbits , but don't recall any bad press about them

Edited by Noogly on Friday 21st October 13:07

[Cavey]

Had exactly this mod done by the independent dealer we bought our DB9 from. He know a guy who sprayed trim so they are out there. The results were really good.

[HBradley]

Noogly said:

I got mine changed by the dealer when I bought it

Astomartinbits might have a suitable second hand one.


I have never used Astomartinbits , but don't recall any bad press about them

Edited by Noogly on Friday 21st October 13:07

I've used astonmartinbits recently & have found them to be professional & knowledgeable with a good range of parts, that said you need to slightly careful & remember to add the VAT. On a couple of occasions I've double-checked the price with an AM dealer (& other indys like Nicholas Mee) & found them to be more expensive.

[blade runner]

IIRC, the original piano black finish is done on top of a (walnut) wooden base anyway, so it should be fairly easy to remove yours and simply have a spray shop apply a piano black finish.

There's a post over on 6-Speed where someone did this to their aluminium version, so yours should be even easier as less prep involved.

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/aston-martin/24...

[paulrog1]

Yes, i've looked at Aston martin bits, they don't have any secondhand units which will are the pre emotion key.

So a new one is £707 plus a conversion kit to allow for a metal unit £60 + VAT = £920 !!!!! WOW.

So, no i'm not purchasing one, i'll get my wood unit sprayed, hoping that the finish will be good.

Anyone else had this done??

[V8V Pete]

Two comments:

1. The price you have been quoted for piano back is too high and almost what you would pay for a carbon fibre one. See this page from astonmartinbits: http://astonmartinbits.com/search?search=ski+slope...

2. Be very sure that you want piano black. Yes, it looks good but it marks easily and reflects an awful lot in bright sunshine. Personally, I love my new CF one

[V8V Pete]

paulrog1 said:

Yes, i've looked at Aston martin bits, they don't have any secondhand units which will are the pre emotion key.

So a new one is £707 plus a conversion kit to allow for a metal unit £60 + VAT = £920 !!!!! WOW.

So, no i'm not purchasing one, i'll get my wood unit sprayed, hoping that the finish will be good.

Our posts crossed in the ether! I acknowledge what you are saying about price now but surely your main dealer could do you a better price or are the ones for older cars all much more expensive?

[dbs2000]

I had my entire V12V console done at a local spray shop. It was the horrible (in my opinion) metal standard. They flattened it and sprayed it for £120

My DBS has a 'real' slope in it and the difference is only noticable when help up side by side.

Before/After:

[HBradley]

Noogly said:

I got mine changed by the dealer when I bought it

Astomartinbits might have a suitable second hand one.


I have never used Astomartinbits , but don't recall any bad press about them

Edited by Noogly on Friday 21st October 13:07

I've used astonmartinbits recently & have found them to be professional & knowledgeable with a good range of parts, that said you need to slightly careful & remember to add the VAT. On a couple of occasions I've double-checked the price with an AM dealer (& other indys like Nicholas Mee) & found them to be more expensive.

[IanV12VR]

V8V Pete said:

2. Be very sure that you want piano black. Yes, it looks good but it marks easily and reflects an awful lot in bright sunshine. Personally, I love my new CF one

Agree totally with Pete. When I had my 9 it came with a pretty worn PB facia which I replaced. Don't know why I bothered really because after one summers driving, ours was a Volante, it had lots of little scratch marks and however hard I tried to keep it looking nice it didn't - and drove me up the wall. The V12V's both have full CF facias and look so much better and are far more stress free.

Edited by IanV12VR on Friday 21st October 18:05

[Flugplatz]

The Piano black is real pain in the ass to keep clean and when it is clean you just focus on the scratches.

I'm considering having mine wrapped. In what im not yet sure.

[AMDBSVNick]

Just changed my PB to CF. A fantastic upgrade

[Bincenzo]

Agree with Pete and others, PB is an absolute PITA in bright sunlight. The reflections are horrendous and it always looks dusty. Good job winters coming!

[drac]

I also agree with the others, PB is not that great. Always looks dusty, shows fingerprints and scratches to easily for my liking. CF might be the ticket but I have no other CF on my car and I think it would be strange just to do one bit.

[danieldenham]

I wrapped mine with gloss black vinyl sheet for £5. Took about 20 mins with some water and a hairdryer! Then with an off-cut from wrapping the front in clear self heading film, I wrapped over the top and so now there are no scratches either!

Dan



.

Edited by danieldenham on Friday 21st October 23:58