Member Since: 02 Aug 2016
Location: Berkshire
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Body coloured D4 door handle skins - Anyone tried these?
Looking at options to body colour my door handles Santorini Black and just had a quick look myself and surprised at how easy it is to unclip the outside of the existing ‘oberion grey’ handles off and refit. Didn’t attempt to take off the rear cover piece off as this felt a bit less removable than the main handle part.
Seems a quick and reasonably priced way of changing to body coloured handles (£40 in Santorini Black) as opposed to me attempting to do myself or be without them whilst I get them sprayed.
Cheers in advance Luke
D4 MY13 HSE Lux
29th Nov 2016 9:48 pm
wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
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Yep .. very easy to swap G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
29th Nov 2016 10:11 pm
lukeob
Member Since: 02 Aug 2016
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 87
Thanks Wiggs.
Quality on par with originals in your opinion? From the description you re-use the rubber cover for the unlock button.
Cheers again!Luke
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29th Nov 2016 11:31 pm
lukeis
Member Since: 17 Mar 2016
Location: Sydney
Posts: 63
I did them myself, as in took them off and got them sprayed but that was before I realised you could buy them so cheaply.
It would be hard to get them sprayed any cheaper than that, plus when you remove the short piece the clips break so while mine have stayed on the car and seem sturdy there is no way I'd bother if you could just buy new ones unbroken and pre painted.
30th Nov 2016 5:01 am
a11geo
Member Since: 06 Nov 2010
Location: Rhoose
Posts: 55
I fitted a set of these yesterday (and the black side vents from the same vendor). Quality and fit was good. You have to swap the rubber microwsitch cover from your original skins onto the new ones - takes no time but worth knowing in case your originals are damaged MY12 D4 HSE Marmaris Teal
MY08 D3 XS Java Black - gone
MY03 D2 ES Zambesi Silver - gone
3rd Dec 2016 9:35 am
lukeob
Member Since: 02 Aug 2016
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 87
Thanks for the feedback gents.
Hoping to revieve mine next week, along with silver lettering to replace the grey - I'll share thoughts once I've got them.Luke
D4 MY13 HSE Lux
3rd Dec 2016 10:54 am
disco_moe
Member Since: 09 Dec 2016
Location: Sydney
Posts: 4
looks good i think i may do this too!
9th Dec 2016 1:40 am
Arwel
Member Since: 11 Aug 2016
Location: Wales
Posts: 44
Re: Body coloured D4 door handle skins - Anyone tried these?
lukeob wrote:
Looking at options to body colour my door handles Santorini Black and just had a quick look myself and surprised at how easy it is to unclip the outside of the existing ‘oberion grey’ handles off and refit. Didn’t attempt to take off the rear cover piece off as this felt a bit less removable than the main handle part.
Seems a quick and reasonably priced way of changing to body coloured handles (£40 in Santorini Black) as opposed to me attempting to do myself or be without them whilst I get them sprayed.
Cheers in advance
Yes i have they are okIf you've never been stuck you have never got far enough, when you do give me a shout!
Tried, tested and passed with distinction V8 Hse Disco3 sadly now retired, but the less thirsty D4 Hse Lux also with a discrete Warn Zeon 12 is now in service not yet tested!
14th Dec 2016 12:41 am
Soldierboy
Member Since: 27 Jan 2016
Location: Sheffield
Posts: 728
What's with the small slits in them mine are just solid handles and they don't have any on that site ??God created heavy armour on 06 sept 1916, on the 7th the devil stood to attention!
Fuji white D4 MY11 GS 3.0 SDV6 MODS:
SMD LEDS INSIDE, SIDE LIGHTS, REAR FOG AND REVERSE
OEM SIDE STEPS
STAINLESS STEEL SCUFF PLATES
RUBBER MATS
SHORT ROOF BARS
RETROFITTED CC
BLACK HUBS & DUST CAPS
GLOSS BLACK GRILLE, SIDE VENTS AND WHEELS
BLACK BADGES FRONT REAR AND STEERING WHEEL
MUD GUARDS FRONT AND REAR
GLOSS BLACK DOOR HANDLES AND LETTERING
15th Dec 2016 12:14 am
dgardel
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Member Since: 02 Aug 2016
Location: Berkshire
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Very smart in silver.
Have been meaning to update on this. Turns out the 'skins' (the ones that replace the outer section of the two-part handle with button in AREN'T available in Santorini Black - they are just gloss black.
Quality of them is pretty good to thought I'd put them on in place of the original grey ones, particularly as the old peanut butter cleaning trick hadn't removed the marks.
VERY easy to fit - even managed to get the originals off without breaking the clips which was sadly satisfying.
They look good. Car is to embarrassingly filthy to show a photo but it's in the dealers on Monday for some bits so once they've cleaned it all up, will post a couple of pics with the silver lettering also.
Thanks everyone for feedback.Luke
D4 MY13 HSE Lux
15th Dec 2016 7:51 pm
lukeob
Member Since: 02 Aug 2016
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 87
Now with a clean car - photos will actually do justice to the new handle skins and the silver lettering.
Very pleased with the improvement. They aren't Santorini Black but IMO look a lot better than the blemished grey ones that were on it previously. A definite thumbs up on both the skins and the letters
Just also been told by PowerfulUK they have D4'facelift grilles in stock now to fit pre-facelift D4's in a number of different colours. If I can sneak one of these past SWMBO I'll send a photo of it in place.
For £120 may be a very reasonable way to get near facelift look without replacing a perfectly good set of Xenon lights which reading other posts, may actually be brighter than the facelift ones, albeit without sexy DRL's in place of less-than-useful fairy lights.
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- photos will actually do justice to the new handle skins and the silver lettering.
