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)

make pre cuts for all of us and sell it to us....

I have pre cut easy to install door handle kits pm me for details!!!!!!

interesting...i dont like those scratches behind my door handle either..ur pics dont show though

here are his pics
1. http://images.kodakgallery.com/photo...0603_0_ALB.jpg
2. http://images.kodakgallery.com/photo...0603_0_ALB.jpg

Just a heads up, I'm getting a 403 error on the picture links.

http:// images.kodakgallery.com/photos3908/6/0/94/57/66/3/366579400603_0_ALB.jpg
http:// images.kodakgallery.com/photos3908/6/0/94/57/56/9/956579400603_0_ALB.jpg

delete the space

sorry - didn't know Kodak Galleries was private.. I moved the pics to Flickr - so you should see them now.