GOT RID OF THE NASTY SILVER Handles
 

First of it's not gonna be easy. YOu must first remove the 10 mm bolts on the corner (2) and one torx on drivers side. The passenger side wont have this. Remove the door handle cable and uncrew the 2 phillips screws w/ plate to remove door switch. Re install those 2 screws so you wont loose them back on take them off when your ready to disassemble them. Remove door tumbler rod, just a clip. When you got the driver's side off remove the tumbler. It's retained by a 10 mm bolt. Remove the lil plate holding the rear full molding. Remove the black molding. Heres the tricky part you must put a flat head screw driver in the lil slot when the handle is completely open to keep it from closing. zip tie ito the main arm and anchor. This will keep it from closing and will help on holding it when your shooting it with paint. Then cut the zip to shoot the top. YOu will do this a couple of times to ensure all paint and clear is on. Unfortunately there is two square gaskets on the handle that will make the paint come off. I went to and cut those of a wrecked 350z and 3m glued it tomake it stick to prevent it from cracking the rest of the paint and two so it wonts rip the other gasket. Here's pics of the finished products.

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IMO it looks better w out the handles... JK! Looks great!

haha i got lost a couple times trying to read it.. i need pics!! by chance you take pics during the process? looks good! I wonder how it woulda looked with the outside or the inside matte black!!

ps: you and killerbee should do a photoshoot together!

:icon17: shaved door handle mod?

I like it! I think the OEM silver handle goes great with Brilliant Silver color. Any other colors, not so great. I wonder how it would look in Monterey Blue....

sick!

I like it man. I think black would have been very complimentary to the rims however.

Photoshopped it didnt like. Im picky. Next stop ima change the 370z emblem to a blacked fairlady z emblem.

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Well done! I've been waiting for ages to see what this would look like and now I can - and it looks......................



...........EXCELLENT!


I've always had reservations about the fridge door handles - I know Nissan think they're a 'design feature', but to me they're tacky.

I hope the paint job holds up, with all the abuse it will get - but fr now I must say it looks really good mate.

A mod that is well worth doing.


Did you take any pics as you did the job, or not?

And you sir are ret:icon14:rted

Glad my car's silver already.. I'm good to go lol.

Man you have been busy. It looks good, but now I realize that it isn't the just color of the stock door handles that bothers me, it's just the whole unit. I think the car would look a lot better and cleaner if it just had flush door handles like a Corvette.

:tup:Jose, BIG props for not just crying about something, instead going out there and DOING something about it yourself.:tup:

We need more people like you around here.