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Restoring a 206GTI gearknob? - tigerstyle - 22-02-2014
I fancy one of these after my leather one has been worn through.
How easy do you think the aluminum would be to restore?
Not to a perfect finish but it to make it certainly less crusty looking.
1500-2000 grit wet and dry and then autosol?
Paint the numbers back in at the top after the polishing stage?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-206-gti-alloy-gear-knob-/111265441844?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item19e7efe834
I missed out on a mint one near me that would've saved all this hassle!
RE: Restoring a 206GTI gearknob? - C.A.R. - 22-02-2014
I had a genuine pug sport alloy one in my 1.8 which wasn't too different from that, it was either cold as fook during the winter or hotter than the surface of the sun the rest of the time!
Leather ones are better IMO. Either that or one of those pool ball ones from eBay haha
RE: Restoring a 206GTI gearknob? - Niall - 22-02-2014
(22-02-2014, 08:19 PM)C.A.R. Wrote: I had a genuine pug sport alloy one in my 1.8 which wasn't too different from that, it was either cold as fook during the winter or hotter than the surface of the sun the rest of the time!
Leather ones are better IMO. Either that or one of those pool ball ones from eBay haha
This. Them metal ones are horrible although if your adamant, I'd take some 2000 grit paper over it then polish it up.
RE: Restoring a 206GTI gearknob? - titch - 23-02-2014
I did a similar thing to one for my other car, i got a scratched focus rs one, ( as a new one was well over a 100 quid )
only thing is from the factory it has a kind of brushed finish not polished. I used various grades of wet and dry and then autosol or similar and it looked great when finished, it took a little while to do but worth the effort.
It depends how deep the scratches are on the one you get but i started with 800 grit wet and dry and worked my way down to 2000 before using the autosol, as i started with 1500 and that wouldn't touch some of the deeper scratches in mine.
RE: Restoring a 206GTI gearknob? - tigerstyle - 23-02-2014
I looked closely at my sisters car (206CC) with the same aluminium style as I'd like, and it;s that same brushed+lacquer style as you describe, so not easy to refurb to OEM, but perhaps better just to go all out and polish it!
I bought one from eBay today, so will take some before and after pictures later.
RE: Restoring a 206GTI gearknob? - titch - 23-02-2014
Yeah there was no way of getting it looking oem, so i just polished it and it came out really nice.
RE: Restoring a 206GTI gearknob? - Eeyore - 23-02-2014
I found a 206cc in the scrap yard but I could never get the gearknob off it. I tried on three different occasions
