General new fiat 500 front door handles fit bravo brava merea

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yep it's official i have bought some handles for the new fiat 500 and tried them in the bravo and they fit like a glove with only a couple of mods

i havnt got any pics uploaded yet but will soon on how to modify them

but basicaly you either modyfy the bends in the opening rod and press it in the other way and chop the counter weight in 2 maintaining a bit of weight in it

or leve the rod and completly slice the weight off in much the same way people do on the alfa 147 handles

they realy do look good too

you may have noticed that the 500 only has one door lock thou so i got round this buy ordering the left hand drive left hand handle

ofcourse you could order the oposite to me and completly delock a remote locking bravo

my handles with locks in part numbers are

right hand side 735485872
left hand side 735485875

they fit the panel on the outside perfectly unlike the 147 handles and dont leve a gap and they are much longer than the bravo handles streamlining the side of the car

pictures and guide to come for now you can look at some i have on photobucket
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Good effort, they compliment your car perfectly. Well done for eventually going ahead with it. How much did they cost you in the end?
 
thanks joske i thought you would spy this first

about 30 quid for the right hand drive and the left hand drive was cheaper at 24 ish probably due to step up in production in the parts for european cars i'd guess
i think they would look fantastic on black red or silver bravos too maybe not so good on lighter colours yellow green light blue
 
I am in desperate need of new handles since the standard ones on my 98 Bravo look horrible with the rubber cracking around them.

Although, I don't think I am adventerous enough to try and fit my own handles, do you think a garage would do it if I bought the handles? I really don't want to attempt to do it and break something/be without handles! (y)
 
thanks joske i thought you would spy this first

about 30 quid for the right hand drive and the left hand drive was cheaper at 24 ish probably due to step up in production in the parts for european cars i'd guess
i think they would look fantastic on black red or silver bravos too maybe not so good on lighter colours yellow green light blue

I agree, they only suit certain coloured cars. Dark Colours mainly. I saw someone with Alfa Handles on a car the same colour as mine and it looked tacky. On yours it looks great.
 
I am in desperate need of new handles since the standard ones on my 98 Bravo look horrible with the rubber cracking around them.

Although, I don't think I am adventerous enough to try and fit my own handles, do you think a garage would do it if I bought the handles? I really don't want to attempt to do it and break something/be without handles! (y)


if you bought the handles i'm sure a garage will be able to fit them just let them know that they will need a simple hack saw modification it's not difficult atall

once a garage has both the handles out and can see what there doing i'm sure they will be able to figure out how to mod them

just make tham aware that the counter weight on the handle will need to go as it will hit the window track stoping the handle from fully folding away

or just pop into rayrigg motors windermere and i'll fit them most professionally for you
 
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and the bit i chopped off the counterweight
 
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yea they are astonishingly dificult to fit i find you have to put the rods on the handle and feed them in poping them back onto the lock inside once you have the handle in place but getting all the bars off the clips without breaking some of them is dificult but the new handles as you can see come with one old style clip and one new one witch will need to be swapped as it will not take the older thicker rods
 
chome can you paint them becouse i think in the heat they will chip off ??
allso do you recone they fit a matalic silver ???
its a pitty you didnt do a step by step guy like fiatboo that would be awsome i wonder how much will it cost to chrome the head of me car :idea:
 
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