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Where to get chrome side garnish for center console?

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Old 08-10-11, 05:27 PM
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Default Where to get chrome side garnish for center console?

My side garnish on my center console is fading, and I'd like to get new chrome ones. L-Tuned has carbon fiber ones for $328 (http://www.l-tunedparts.com/product/?id=3031) but I don't want to spend that much. Does anybody know where I can get some decent-priced chrome ones?
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I want them too. Saw a pic in the "show your interior" thread. Can't find them at any price. Keep us updated.
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NOBODY makes them except Think Design! Their products are beautiful but expensive.
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Originally Posted by Sffd103
NOBODY makes them except Think Design! Their products are beautiful but expensive.
Does Sewell or Carson sell an OEM side garnish? Does anybody know the part number?
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Originally Posted by lexuslivin
Does Sewell or Carson sell an OEM side garnish? Does anybody know the part number?
Sewell should sell an OEM one like what's in your car now. Nothing chrome. I don't know the part number. Search their site.
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Just have your OEM pieces dipped in chrome by a wheel shop or chrome specialist.
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^ Exactly what I was thinking, make sure to do a lot of pieces at once.. I was thinking paddle shifters, the garnish, the steering wheel button strip(not the buttons but the piece around it) and maybe the center console lever.

One thing I would really like is the chrome strip that the newer IS's have on the head unit, I feel like I'm missing it...
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Originally Posted by brociouz
Just have your OEM pieces dipped in chrome by a wheel shop or chrome specialist.
You have to go to a special place that does plastic. Wheel shops only do metal usually.
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^true story bro
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^ Just Google "chrome plating plastic," there are plenty of shops that do it. No idea on cost though.
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