This was the most miserable and difficult job I have ever done on my car, because of the lack of room removing and refitting the Door handle rods. But its done

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The 500 door handles are stylish and quality and fit the Bravo perfectly.

New guide
https://www.fiatforum.com/bravo-brava...iat-bravo.html

how much did they set you back ? might be rather interested, but i think i might keep em chrome..

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aaronsummerhayes said:

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like the link in the 1st post?

Guide is at the bottom of my original post Arron
https://www.fiatforum.com/bravo-bra...at-500-door-handles-1995-2001-fiat-bravo.html

Spoonz They where £33+Vat each from Fiat, If your keeping them chrome you wont need to spend any more.

Painting them will add a good amount on again, especialy if you fud it up and have to buy paint twice like I did.

Fitting handles I know your pain.... They look to be a much nicer fit than the 147 handles

m20b25 said:

Fitting handles I know your pain.... They look to be a much nicer fit than the 147 handles

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Yeah thats exactly why I wanted them so much. You get a massive gap with the 147 because that door has a curve.
Its a horrible job, I hope the mechanism never fails.

My bad

Fancy doing mine for me? I would completely mess it up.

Adrian Bravo said:

Yeah thats exactly why I wanted them so much. You get a massive gap with the 147 because that door has a curve.
Its a horrible job, I hope the mechanism never fails.

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The plastic bit failed on me once however that was due to an attampted break in... I couldnt even get the 147 handles to fit in properly so the bottom juts out aswell!

I noticed on both my door latches that even though they have a very strong thread lock and it takes a lot of effort to undo the bolts, none of them where fully tight. I tightened them up and the door's close with a nice solid thud rather than tiny rattle. Another thing to check on a regular basis.

you had to take the door card off, right?

Bravo16VSpoonz said:

you had to take the door card off, right?

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Ofcourse yeah, there is no other way to do it. I took it as an opertunity to strengthen and repair the top and back edge of the card. The back edge fits perfectly against the door now.



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