So, I went the Plastidip route with my door handles. I did them back in December. Up until the last month or so, it looked pretty good. Since then I've
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So, I went the Plastidip route with my door handles. I did them back in December. Up until the last month or so, it looked pretty good. Since then I've had some peeling and general wear showing.
So, rather than go back to more Plastidip, I've decided to go with paint. I had this idea to do something a little different. I was thinking of painting most of the handle in the body color but painting the pull in a matte black. Or, maybe painting most of the handle matte black and leaving the pull the stock silver (like below). What do you guys think? |
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I think it looks good in the picture. Hard to tell tho if it fits with the rest of the car.
Nice to see something new
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I'm a fan of having the contrast of black, which is why I plasti-dipped mine black. Color matching doesn't look right to me because you can tell the handle is so different compared to a normal handle; its not trying to blend in like a regular handle. For that reason I feel the design calls for it to be a different color.
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