it looks to me like when you attach the heating and cooling controls to the new plate it will hide the metal and when you remove the stock radio and vent you will see a black plastic plate that originally hid the metal on the original bracket. i have seen setups like this on other cars and from the picture it looks like there is a black plastic plate that is covering the metal after you remove the vent and radio you should see it clear. correct me if im wrong mark Kevin Abato wrote: > (Please go to this web page pictures to ref. the topic below: > http://24.46.235.195:81/images/temp/) > Below (http://24.46.235.195:81/images/temp/) is a picture of my original OEM > console with the new DIN cut replacement console from DMC Houston on the > right. My question is, When I install the new DMC console, it does not have > a black finish like the original. [moderator snip]