Anyone have the wood dash kit installed? If so, I would love to see some pictures. (I've looked through the picture gallery, and haven't seen any.)

I know it's not what most of you think of as a "cool" mod. It's not wheels, or tinting or lowering, but I think it might add to the luxury aspect of the RL.

Thanks in advance.

 

tc5280 has a kit that adds faux wood to most of the center console and some other parts of the dash. I'm pretty sure he said he found it on eBay.

 

Not sure what you are talking about. Are you sure you own an RL because the dash is already wood?

Don't go any further than this. It will look bad.

 

^^^That's basically what tc5280's kit looks like with the extra wood pieces on the cup holder cover and around the gear shift lever but it also has wood covering the "not an ashtray" cover and the vertical silver pieces on the sides of the climate/nav controls.

Here's something kind of weird. On my 2006 the hidden power outlet is on the right side of the center console. On that car pictured it is on the left. Did they change this between model years?

 

That wood you show around the shifter and back to the storage consoles is not stock. The only wood I have are the two "wings" that go left and right up top.

The parts that I would want to use, you don't have. One piece goes around the shift pattern and the other goes around all the buttons for the radio etc...and not use the two pieces you have around the shifter and back to the center storage console.

I hope that is more clear.

 

Hmm. Interesting observation. My 2006 also is on the right side...

 

yes the 09-12 Console has the outlet on the driver side. that is just the 09-12 trim put into a 05-08

 

It adds pieces to the doors, overhead console, trunk/gas button, glove box handle, round vents on dash and mirror position. It is all soon going away for something else.

 

Pics? That sounds gaudy. Also, how well does it match compared to the real wood of the dash?

 

No pics for that reason. It was not what I was hoping for. Noticeable difference in certain areas. Not that bad over all. Have to laugh about matching the "real" wood. Since you are giving opinions are you more partial to interior carbon trim or body matched trim? That question goes for everyone else as well.

 

Do you know the manufacturer of your kit?

If you are doing away with it, would you sell me just the pieces I'm interested in?

 

ball so hard.

 

I'm sorry, but what is that supposed to mean?

 

Makin it rain woodgrain

 

I don't understand the question or whats to laugh about.

 

When I purchased my car, it had the WHOLE wood kit installed. I took off the part around the center stack (yes, it went around each button/knob). Kept it that way for about three days, then pealed it off. Left it like this for quite sometime, but eventually pealed it off too. Here's the pic after removing from the stack:

 

The two parts you have taken off are the two parts I would be interested in. The piece around all the buttons and the piece around the shifter. Are the ones you removed, reusable?

 

This is it:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ACURA-RL-Woo...5ab4be&vxp=mtr

If it comes off easily I will. Not sure if would stick right again though

1. The question is do you think wrapping the "real" wood pieces with carbon would look better than color matching the pieces?

2. I have to laugh that you described the wood in the car as "real". In no way is it real.

 

The wood across the dash is real in all 05-06 models and the 07+ tech and ACC/CMBS package RL's.

 

Real fake.

 

1. If I had to choose wrapping the interior pieces in anything, I would not choose carbon. I don't like anything with fake carbon fiber. I suppose if it were just some pieces, I would go with a solid vinyl. If I had to do an overhaul, I would probably do suede like the GT-R or CTS-V. However, I think the RL interior is timeless. If you have a black interior, the MMC black wood looks great.

2) See Carbon's response.
This. The door pieces and wood wheel are plood. Everything else before 2007 is real wood. 07 & 08 base and all MMC use plood.
Why are you trolling the newbs? There are enough new owners here to spread wrong information without people doing it purposely.

 

I'm sorry just can't consider calling something .001(or however thin it is) real wood. Especially when it comes out as "my car has real wood in the dash!" like it is something that special. The black color is real nice but again, that much money for how much real wood? Not worth it imo.

 

my bad... going back to the corner.

 

Mine has plplastic there, not plood:



Too much wood is sometimes not a good thing.

 

PS - didn't realise the later cars were all plood.

I quite like that bit, in a lift it up & there should be ivory keys under it sort of way.

 

The black "wood" isn't real. It is only an alternative to the '05-08 burl wood.

Why does it matter again if it is a tenth of an inch or 10 inches thick? The only purpose is aesthetic. All you are going for is natural grains that cannot be reproduced by a computer. I started out saying that the variance in the natural wood causes matching issues when it comes to color. You scoffed because you thought, "In no way is it real." But in reality, it is real, and your retort is that it isn't thick enough for you to consider it real as if the thickness changes the physical composition into a completely different material?!?

Again, I will go back to my first statement. The real wood in the dash makes it hard to color match with plastic designed to look like wood.

plood = plastic "wood"

What year is yours?

 

It doesn't matter one bit. Looks like it belongs in an old Lincoln though.

06

 

I watched an episode of Ultimate Factories where they showed the build process of the Rolls Royce Phantom. The process is the same. Wouldn't you consider that wood? I would imagine most all cars are the same. It's just too difficult to use a real piece of wood for the full piece with modern day interiors. The tolerances are much smaller and electronics greater than they were 4 decades ago.

 

As long as we both understand that the only basis supporting the fact that the wood isn't real is how you think it looks, .

 

Some have deep respect for attention to detail when others may not. I can see why Acura switched to all plood.

 

whatever you say man. You obviously know way more than me. Thank god I do not have the time(53%) to stare at AZ, act like I know it all, and talk shit to everyone else. Great trend you got going there.



p.s. Do you even have an RL anymore?

 

ouch, swinging for the fences on that one. haha

 

Bah, this picture gives me interior envy. I wish mine had a black interior.

 

@ talking shit.

Nope.

 

You know what they say, once you get the black interior...

 

<--- still think it looks like its transforming!

 

Transforming... into $21,400 in my pocket...

 

Cha ching!

 

Yeah, I got that. The centre console is definitely plplastic, thankfully.

'07. Although it was registered '09. Which shows how brilliantly they sold over here.

 

Yes, the center console is plastic on all 05-08 models. The MMC (09-13) had the plood consoles.