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d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:28 am
by lozz
The coating on the rear door handles on the inside of my d9 anyone else got this,
where its peeling off its shiney underneath im thinking of pealing it all off with some thiners or meths or something.
anyone else painted these on theres ?

they look tatty so ineed to tidy them up abit ,

thanks for any ideas

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:55 am
by plod
Wasn't Farmer P suffering this?

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:09 am
by DiscoPol
I believe his was a peeling knob or two :shock: along with the usual handle malarky, he tried some plasticoat stuff off the bay but said it was crap from what i can remember,

Lozz im sure he will be along soon enough with some more insight, mine where the same but i didnt have the urge to tidy mine up :oops:

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:08 am
by highlander
I bought Exec-spec door cards for my old LX saloon - when they arrived, the rear door grab-handles looked like a dog had been chewing them.

I went down to see Blue406 and he helped me out - we went to his famous local scrappy and got some undamaged grab handles off've a wrecked 406. The handles are held on to the door cards by means of plastic rivets. He drilled those out of my door cards, and used a self-tapping screw to fix the clean handles on to the door cards. They look like they're brand new.

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:49 am
by lozz
Thanx for the info.
iwill see if ican get the coating off mine as they do look nice and shiney underneath,

ilike the Shiney look 8)

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:10 pm
by FarmerPug
I had this problem tried plastidip its shite.
at the moment i have done nothing else.

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:52 pm
by lozz
cheers mate,

ive had a play today ive peeled bit of it off its lovely and shiney underneath,
im just waiting to pick up some meths to finish them off ithink iwill get away with not painting them hopefully,

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:08 pm
by FarmerPug
i tried sanding them to prep it for the plastidip so the rear left one is in shite and needs replaced.
Meths, is that methalated spirits, the purple thinner stuff?

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:15 pm
by lozz
FarmerPug wrote:i tried sanding them to prep it for the plastidip so the rear left one is in shite and needs replaced.
Meths, is that methalated spirits, the purple thinner stuff?
yup mate
it stinks but its good at cleaning stuff as it just evaporates afterwards,
im not sanding mine iwant to leave the shiney coating there ,

plastic dip is ok if you use plastic primer 1st if you just spray it on some plastics it has nothing to key into,

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:28 pm
by FarmerPug
a bit of suede or alacantra would be nice, not just there but on other bits with hard plastic.

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:36 pm
by lozz
iwouidnt fancy cloth on the handles tbh,
theyd look nice spose but theyd be hard to keep clean,

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:42 pm
by FarmerPug
but in my car everything is already hard to keep clean, it cant get worse. :oops:
no i really should get another pair.

Re: d9 back door handles interior peeling coating

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:07 am
by OdinEidolon
I have this problem too. For now I do not have any urgency to fix it, but I'll watch out for possible solutions.