How did you restore the aluminum trims of the console?

They are anodized so it's not super easy to restore like new but you can remove the anodizing by using Easy Off oven cleaner and then progressively finer sanding starting with 1500 and proceeding to 5000 finishing with simichrome polish....and then you have to touch them up on a regular basis as they will be raw aluminum. You could clear Cerakote them but the look isn't the same. I'm sure others have ideas as well...
 
The question is, what part of trim do you want do over work.
There is a brushed part and a shiny part of.

One is brushed and silver anodized,
the upper is polished and shine anodized.

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I think @alprada70 is referring to the trim on the 2 vertical panels of the center console..

As @tferrer mentioned they are anodized. To redo them, re-anodising is appearently difficult, as alu suffers from pit corrosion , which is so deep that you will not sand out it entirely.

So, during the anodising process various chemicals will leach out, giving strange "clouds" in the anodisising layer.

I've heard forum members report the above for external belt line trim.
Now you part is interior, so it may have less corrosion. Thus possibly one could give re-anodising a try?
 
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