Am i right in thinking that if i bought a body coloured handle off a punto sporting that it can be a direct replacement for my sh!t3 faded ones?

cheers

why dont you just paint them?

thats sooooo much more effort lol i thought about it tho.

how easily painted are the door strips?

Dead easy! Takes a bit longer if you want a glass smooth finish. Take you a couple of hours at most.

Alan

Side bump strips look good removed ==> see the guides section

yeah i saw the guide and saw how amazing it looked but seeing how my mother opens her car door (thats parked next 2 mine on the drive) i think i will have to keep them lol.

Some people just ruin it for the rest of us

can you take door handles off to paint them?

sportings dont have body coloured handle

yeah i wanted to colour code them, but just thought about it and i'd be better off getting them done properly so the paint matches blah blah blah

shh im tired

non painted handles have a rough finish and are hard to get a pro job on them unless you have lots of filler 800 wet and dry and lots of paint and laquer

painted handles are dead esy to paint as they already have a smooth finish

and if you find some in your colour on a hgt or elx jtd and so on it's win win

they are dead easy to remove and are a straight swap from car to car

another option is to get a paint strippergun from any good tool store for a fiver at most

and waft it over any black plastic on your car and it brings it instantly back to black as if you replaced them with new it really works and it lasts for a long time

littlepip17 said:

painted handles are dead esy to paint as they already have a smooth finish

and if you find some in your colour on a hgt or elx jtd and so on it's win win

they are dead easy to remove and are a straight swap from car to car

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if that's the case i might get a pair off a breaking car and just switch them

dave said:

sportings dont have body coloured handle

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Mine doesnt ... nor the side mirrors :bang:

i painted mine by taking them off, roughly sanding them with P320, then putting about 4 coats of primer on, flatted down with P800, and painted them, voila!

OK, how do you get them off/on?

dave said:

sportings dont have body coloured handle

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No they don't. I have a sporting and I've had to start colour coding bits myself.

Sometimes you get the odd one or two bits floating around on ebay (that have been primed/sprayed)

old thread.


(n00b thread)

oktopod said:

Mine doesnt ... nor the side mirrors :bang:

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HGT's have colour coded handles

You ressurected a 5 month old thread!!