Scratch protect outside door handles
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04-19-2008, 04:18 PM
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Scratch protect outside door handles
I know I saw a post a while back about the annoying scratches behind the outside door handles. No one's probably going to care about this post but I just thought I'd help those who want to put the paint protection material on themselves.
1. I took some spare material (3M paint protection sheets from www.stickercity.com) and cut a rough rectangle to fit in the door handles then trimmed it to shape around the round corners:
2. Then I did the usual install with soapy water
- Peel off the material from the backing
- Apply to the door handle backing
- Start getting out the excess water from behind by pushing it out with your fingers
- You'll see that the material looks pretty crappy as it is not form-fitting around the concave area
- Keep pushing out excess water and keep positioning the material as best you can
- As more of the water gets pushed out, the pressure/heat from your fingers will start forcing the material to conform to the concave space
- After about 4 minutes, the material will start to really stick on its own.
- At this point, this is the perfect time to make it "mold" around the concave area and push out as many bubbles as you can
- In the end, you'll have a pretty decent install with a few minor bubbles that you can take out with a hairdryer (or natural sunlight)
- For those of you who are used to installing this stuff - you'll know what I mean. The next day - all the bubbles will be gone.
Here is a pic right after putting it on - you'll still see some bubbles that I have yet to force out with a hairdryer...
1 down, 3 more to go. Total cost = ??? maybe around $4.00 since I bought $80.00 worth of material ($8.00 per foot of 18" length)
1. I took some spare material (3M paint protection sheets from www.stickercity.com) and cut a rough rectangle to fit in the door handles then trimmed it to shape around the round corners:
2. Then I did the usual install with soapy water
- Peel off the material from the backing
- Apply to the door handle backing
- Start getting out the excess water from behind by pushing it out with your fingers
- You'll see that the material looks pretty crappy as it is not form-fitting around the concave area
- Keep pushing out excess water and keep positioning the material as best you can
- As more of the water gets pushed out, the pressure/heat from your fingers will start forcing the material to conform to the concave space
- After about 4 minutes, the material will start to really stick on its own.
- At this point, this is the perfect time to make it "mold" around the concave area and push out as many bubbles as you can
- In the end, you'll have a pretty decent install with a few minor bubbles that you can take out with a hairdryer (or natural sunlight)
- For those of you who are used to installing this stuff - you'll know what I mean. The next day - all the bubbles will be gone.
Here is a pic right after putting it on - you'll still see some bubbles that I have yet to force out with a hairdryer...
1 down, 3 more to go. Total cost = ??? maybe around $4.00 since I bought $80.00 worth of material ($8.00 per foot of 18" length)
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04-20-2008, 09:10 AM
here are his pics
1. http://images.kodakgallery.com/photo...0603_0_ALB.jpg
2. http://images.kodakgallery.com/photo...0603_0_ALB.jpg
1. http://images.kodakgallery.com/photo...0603_0_ALB.jpg
2. http://images.kodakgallery.com/photo...0603_0_ALB.jpg
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Originally Posted by rpm&my_G35
Just a heads up, I'm getting a 403 error on the picture links.
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04-20-2008, 09:52 AM
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