Painted Door Handles?

avantcrap

Hello all,

I'm currently getting my door handles painted by a local body shop in the OEM color to match my car. However, the shop told me since the handles are stainless, they will probably have some longer term issues with holding the paint.

For those with painted handles, have you had any issues with yours peeling or degrading?

Worst comes to worst, I guess I can get them sanded down and repainted if needed in the future. The price to do this is fairly cheap ($75 for the pair), but I'm just curious if anyone has had this problem.

cooltoy

Never heard of this being an issue.

Contact equalme. He has painted many handles.

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Jayhovah

Stainless? The handles are plastic. Fire your body shop.

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cooltoy

I was thinking exact same thing.

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Apex2Apex

Go get your handles back. Drop a deuce on his desk and hire a midget to crotch punch him.

After you do that get a hold of equalme on the forum.

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avantcrap

Lol. I thought stainless sounded funny to me...I looked into equalme but he's charging a good 3x what a shop will charge me. If these don't turn out great, I'll just send my other set to him.

Apex2Apex

Trying to be objective here.

You are putting your faith in a shop that cannot identify the material that they are applying paint to. This would lead me to believe that the end results of their paint job is not going to be great.

While equalme's cost may be 3X higher, it will be done proper. If the jackwagons at the shop screw up your paint, you're out of the money and still have to pay more to equalme. Getting something done right, the first time, with excellent customer service is worth the cost of admission IMO.

Just my couple 'o pennies.

Good luck!

pfdaxe

Mine have been painted for a couple of years with no issues at all. Not even a chip

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Get your door handles back before it's too late.

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avantcrap

It was already too late as of writing this thread originally. However, the guy who told me that turned out to be the desk guy so apparently he just doesn't know any better. Got the handles back yesterday and installed. They turned out great, thank goodness. They even got inside the handles and all. Hopefully they hold up fine, but I'm not too worried.

DeliriousClam

I'll be honest I'm ready to paint mine but even with all the crap I know how to do, I have no idea how to remove the door handles...

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falconfixer

passenger side is easy, it's the drivers side that sucks. There's a DIY on door handle removel somewhere on the site. I used it when I did mine.

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avantcrap

It's a pain in the *** but takes about an hour. The hardest part for me was unplugging the electrical cord as its a very tight space and difficult to unplug and plug back in. Other than that, it's pretty simple. There's a guide on the forums that gives you a step by step and instructions on resetting your windows as they will go down automatically.

DeliriousClam

got it. I'll see if I can find the guide. Thanks Guys!

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