does anyone know if any plastic doorhandles are available which could be painted body colour and will fit a bravo as the rubber ones on mine are crap and have rotted and it sounds like its quite common.

yes use the search button mate

Yes the Marea handles fit which are plastic, or even better, the alfa 147 chrome handles fit to

Take a look in the classifieds. People are usually selling them.

Go chrome

i have chrome handles (obviously) and while i love them i do find they scratch easily, so easily i wonder if its really chrome or just chrome paint on top of plastic.

yeah mine are stratched proper bad, keep meaning to get out with the autosol and see if i can sort it! they pretty deep tho so i doubt i can do too much of an improvement.. oh and i really need to sort the fact the lock barrel comes out the drivers side with the key

it's an easy fix..there is a clip on the back..but you'll probably have to take the handle off!!

it would be easy if the clip was still there, but god knows where it will be by now, actually i'd check in the bottom of the door, it looks like the letter C

huh? is that to my lock barrel problem?

i dont rate wanna take the handle off cos i dunno if i can get it back on haha. can i not just glue it?

yes it's to with your handle! I wouldn't suggest gluing the barrel in place! There are plenty of guides floating around on how to take the handles off, just a few screws need undoing and a pair of small hands are required! iirc on mine there was also a pin that through the barrel aswell!

kayl0rz said:

Go chrome

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Whats that huge gap at the rear of the handle?

i dont think its a gap, i think its black stuff or a shadow

JoskeJTD said:

Whats that huge gap at the rear of the handle?

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The alfa 147 has a fold all the way across the side of the car, this fold goes right through where the handle is and so the handle needs to cup around this, on the flat door of a bravo, at the front and back of the handle you can see where the fold should be
Pic to show you:

http://www.italiancar.net/site/FACT...picts_big/Alfa_147_GTASelespeed_AU_18a_lg.jpg

kayl0rz said:

yeah mine are stratched proper bad, keep meaning to get out with the autosol and see if i can sort it! they pretty deep tho so i doubt i can do too much of an improvement.. oh and i really need to sort the fact the lock barrel comes out the drivers side with the key

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kayl0rz I have a spare barrel retaining spring if you want it i will post it to you for nothing, free

Oh and i will print out the pages from my fiat service manual, so you know exactly how to sort it.

Does anyone know if a barrel retaining C spring from a original bravo door handle will fit the alfa handles?

Yep they fit!

jami said:

Yep they fit!

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Cool I will post my spare spring to kayl0rz.

thanks for your help guys, got a pair of marea handles for £20 and got my dad to re-paint them (handy having a spraypainter for a dad). fitted them and they look alot better than the standard ones.

Sorry to hijack, just got my marea rear door handles for my Bravo and alas not the same colour as my car so gonna have to re-paint em, do I need primer on them first?
2 Coats Primer & 2 Coats main colour, or no primer needed considering it will be black paint?

TIA, James.