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Refurburbishing alloys is a thankless task, and to be honest it’s one of these things best left to the professionals and powder coating, rebalance, etc. That’s different if it was just a scuff, but this is a full strip-down. The time, cost of materials, including zinc etch primer, base coat primer, colour coat and a few coats of lacquer soon mounts up. If you’re determined to do it, then the alloys need to be spotless. Paint wise, then Würth silver metallic is as close to Audi OE as you’ll get.

Good on you for trying Frank, but if you had asked for advice as to whether it was a worthwhile DIY job, then I think most responses would have been as Richard says. Whether you now continue or get them done is a big question, but perhaps pessimistic, there will likely be areas of some that you won’t be happy with - as thorough as you are. Regards, Gareth.

cheers for the advice spartacus. absolutely it’s been a long few weeks of trial and error and a lot of redoing/undoing. even though i cant yet get my head around spending nearly £300 to refurbish a set of alloys i bought for £160 isn’t easy😂, it may be getting close to that, i have bought the materials such as primer, paint, lacquer, paint stripper, filler and a couple other bits to help me i may have got a bit deep into it. also heard about a hosepipe ban which will be some issue considering my pressure washer is my main source of actual paint removal at the minute. as i said aswell i gave the painting an attempt but they turned out in a looking pretty botched… as much as i’d love to stick them, your probably right in best leaving it to the pros. and regarding the advice cliff gave me, i didn’t have much luck with the cellulose thinner as it just seemed to do the same as the paint stripper had, though it did losen it up to be able to remove some bits.

Hi everyone Ive just retro fitted cruise control & DIS (driver information system) stalk to my 2006 B7 also did another lads from work last week. Its was fairly easy to do and for the £40 I paid for a second hand squib / levers , well worth the money! Ive put this video together on how to fit the stalks and run through the coding using a snap on scanner (in expert mode) Ive not gone into great detail explaining how I found the exact codes I needed to input but have put links to the rosstech site where the codes are explained a lot better , its fairly easy to get your head round once you have a quick read.. ive also put a link in the video description to a google drive file which again explains the procedures quite well. along as you can work out your correct codes you can follow my coding procedure but just entering the codes which suit your vehicle 🙂