Aurora Wood Trim Kits Available

[MBowen574]

In my experience, aftermarket wood trim kits look bad on every car they're on. At least in my opinion. It can really ruin a good-looking interior.



I know, an extreme example. It's from a '93 Infiniti Q45, a car that came stock with no wood but many examples of which were "retrofitted" at the dealer with these cheap wood kits. They rarely look good new, and wear far worse than stock-spec real wood or even plastic "woodgrain."

And interesting point about the philosophy behind the first Q45 is this: the Nissan/Infiniti designers responsible for the car decided it should stand apart from the luxury norm in its style, so they eliminated the two most overused luxury trappings: a large chrome grille and wood of any sort on the interior. By 1994, Infiniti retrofitted the first-gen Q45 with both of these in an attempt to help flagging sales. Just my observances...

[oldsauroraman1]

Taste surely applies here. Some like chocolate, others vanilla. The wood looks good to me and I do not like Infinity!

[Custom88]

I was hoping to find a better picture, but many Riviera owners have put on aftermarket real-wood dash kits. If they're not plastic based they can look pretty decent. The picture below isn't the best I've seen obviously but some of the wood kits can look great!


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here's another one I found:

[oldsmama]

Those are so pretty! Where can I get those for my car? I'll have to check with my husband before I buy though, I want to keep him happy!

[Letitroll98]

I asked about these before and the general opinion of those that have seen them installed on Auroras is that they look very cheap and fake. (RocketV8 got mad when we expressed this opinion and we haven't seen her since) I think it does well on the Riv because, no offense here former Riv owners, the stock dash was so horrid. On non-supercharged models you could get the wood trim as a factory option and it really improves the look, thus the aftermarket ones come off well. I do like the little wood touches on the seat controls that are included with the whole kit. Supa or Javi got them on Ebay as surplus and they add a nice touch, but I don't think you can buy them separate from the supplier.

[Roop]

wood trim can be the perfect finishing touches. take a look inside a cadilac CTS. they use wood sparingly but it looks good. the wood on the shifter is pretty slick... that's where it ends. i hate the way the CTS looks on the outside and the inside. they ruined what's otherwise and amazing car with that stupid fron boxiness and the cupholder in the center console.

the classic aurora with it's slight tilt to the drive has to be the best interior i've ever seen.

[95mushroom]

I like letitroll's idea of the wood trim. For the the classic I would just use the pieces for the center around the radio and a/c vents and for the seat buttons, that would be it. Wouldn't touch a 2nd gen's interior (other then radio).

The problem with aftermarket kits is they try to cover every piece they can. An example would be the peice that goes around the a/c controls. The way they cut out pieces of the wood to show the markings underneath. Or putting two pieces on just the glovebox handle which obivously isn't wood.

[vojtazbrna]

I got one myself and I love it. As mushroom said though, I only put some of them on. Especially the piece around the a/c controls is ridiculous.

[Rora99]

i concur with roop, i love my classics interior. with the controls angled toward the driver and the sparing use of wood trim the aurora holds my golden globe for best interior:)