Jay's V5 Passat

[Jay]

Oops

[boneybradley]

have you broken it?? 

[Jay]

My wife is going to be on the insurance soon 

Why was I against women having lower insurance premiums, just for being female?  Doh!

But she has to be confident enough (and I in her) to drive it before I put her on the insurance, she's only had 2 hours with a driving instructor and they got told off for driving around the culdesac he took her down to practice the basics because an old ladies cat likes to lay in the road and she was scared it'd get run over  

[Jay]

Maybe not, existing insurance broker won't cover her, to take out another / change my policy with my insurance company (different broker) would be £2360 for the year  Money Supermarket comes back with the cheapest being £1252 paying that off over a year ...


The car is safe for a while longer 

[Jay]

Thinking of getting a bit of vinyl for the interior trim or spraying it, however, I can't decide on what wrap or colour to go for. I know I don't want carbon wrap, it's not my thing. I'll get some pics of the interior to show what the colour / texture is like now.

Alternatively I could go for original OEM trim replacements.

Post your thoughts, opinions and suggestions below

[Martz]

Paint them. Mucho better fella.

[Jay]

What colour though? I wouldn't mind black as it'd go nicely with the leather interior & door cards, But Black trim is usually found on base spec models... that's why I was thinking of a black leather effect wrap. Always up for different ideas, as long as it'll look good in the car with the leather interior.


The worst of the trim.



The 'fish scale' trim 

[SoundillusioN]

Nice scale!......

erm, how about wrapping them in something dark and textured?

[T_J_G]

If you rub them down you'll get brushed aluminium

[Jay]

If you rub them down you'll get brushed aluminium

Sounds like a (cheap) plan any old grade of sand paper or any in particular to get a good finish?