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I have sent an email to Fulcher Coachtrimmers to see if Steve can give any suggestions for reducing the glare from the binnacle. Maybe there might be a product that can feed the leather and leave a matt finish.

Quite a few of them just had 1 and left, must have been on the way home from work! Pissed up slugs causing havoc in the back garden!? Not sure about that @ChrisJ ! 😂

Can’t say I’ve ever seen one but, that’d do the trick. You can’t even drown a slug, they just hold their breath and slide back up to the top of the bucket!

Have tried copper tape before with limited success. Did not know about coffee grounds….. bit to late to start brewing fresh coffee now but will give it a go. 👍

Not sure? Have been using a ring of crushed egg shell around the stem but, that didn’t work!

Blummin’ slugs and snails! The little sods have already decimated one of our courgette plants!

Copperslip, Neversieze, KY jelly, Vaseline or Anulox! The choice is endless……

Alcantara is out the question for me. A binnacle re-colour would just be a cosmetic change. I have seen photos from/of people who have done it, and it does look good. Admittedly they also changed the leather strip that is just below the windscreen which is similar to the S3 interior’s but, that would have to happen later. One thing I did find when I re-coloured my interior was after buffing the sheen was less than that of the original leather after the same treatment.

Funny you should mention Alcantara @drdoom. I did think about that as an alternative. As you say though, it is tricky to work with as it doesn’t stretch. This leads me to believe a re-trim in the material would be rather expensive. I totally agree that there would be no glare though. I bet your trimmer loves you!

I understand the binnacle being a dark grey to reduce reflection but I get a huge amount of reflection off it on the windscreen at the moment. Sometimes it can be very off putting and difficult to concentrate on the road ahead.

Or both?

Hmmm, probably safe to say that it hasn’t been addressed then. Not a problem but, a little extra work might be required.

That does make sense @drdoom. Only problem I have is once you feed the leather the product requires buffing off which leaves a sheen and that reflects on the windscreen. I have been using Connolly hide care - recommended to me by Fulcher Coachtrimmers. TBH even if I re-coloured the binnacle it would still require the hide care cream and buffing so the sheen would still be there. The re-colour would be purely cosmetic.

A bit of a thread resurrection. Since having completed the re-colouring of the interior, it had always been in the back of my mind as to why the steering column shroud and binnacle were trimmed in a dark grey leather and not the same as the rest of the interior. Having mulled over the idea of changing the colour of these pieces for months as once changed would be a real pain to reverse, I finally took the plunge and did the steering column shroud. Below are a couple of photos of the result. Personally I think the shroud should have been the same colour as the rest of the interior as it protrudes from the dashboard. I’m still in two minds about the binnacle though. Would it be too much?

I thought it sounded more like a calming cream to be applied after the invasion.