Exact Interior Door Trim Colour

[Crazy_Sean]

Hello All,

I have a quick question about the interior door trim/handle thingy on my DB9 (2008). I've owned the car for a couple of years and when I purchased it there were a few little marks on the interior door trim piece. On my car it's a darker grey or platinum grey maybe. I've had a look at Aston Martin bits for a replacement and they are about a thousand of our Australian Dollars.

I'm thinking that instead of that I might get a car dint repair guy that I know to fill in the dents and then give it a paint..... But I want to make sure I give him an accurate paint colour or paint code. Any one got any ideas?

[Manx V8V]

I have a Tungsten Silver Vantage and have the same problem, on mine it looks like a previous owner has let the seatbelt clip hit the arm a few times, I haven't got around to doing mine yet, but someone either on here or another site posted that they tried touching up using AM Meteorite Silver which is quite dark, and said it was a perfect match.

This would make sense as the arms are obviously a darker colour and I can see the logic in AM using an existing colour from the range rather than creating one just for those bits.

It would therefore be worth ordering a Meteorite touch-up bottle and trying it in a hidden area.

[Rappa]

Sean,

I asked the same question before and MakoV12 kindly answered:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=16...

I tried getting the supplier to make some up but they will only do it for retailers.

I am yet to go to my local place and just get a colour match.

I think there is some money for someone here to make some touch up pots.

Sean

[Crazy_Sean]

Thanks for the answers guys.

Do you think a touch up pot will do it? I mean, wouldn't it need to be sanded back to make sure the chip is flattened out? I'm not sure of the correct painters lingo here and I'm likely making an a55 of myself.

After your responses I called a local guy who has fixed up small dints and paint repairs on my other cars. I told him the story and he said to take the arm thing off and he'd take it to a place to match colour. Then he'd sand it back and spray it. He said around 100 bucks.... which is about 40 of your pounds.

What do you think? Worth doing? Oh also, how the hell do I get that thing off? Any tricks?

[Rappa]

Hi,

I also had someone say bring me the handle. I haven't tried to take it off yet. I suspect there may be a you tube video of it.

Sean

[rancidswan]

I've previously shared a guide on how to remove/repaint and restore the interior sills and door handles, with a Holt's paint, very easy to get hold of...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...