Door handles??

[lozi_murias]

Okk so as i want to colour-code the sax, i thought a good place for me to start would be my doorhandles, as belive it or not they're not body-coloured!

Could anyone tell me how the heck i get them off the car??

I'm fairly familiar with the usual routine of rubbing down, primer +24hr, paint +24hrs, laquer +24hrs but if only i could get the bloody things off!

Thanks

[KarlVTR]

according to haynes,there are two rivets what hold it on,you have to use a 4.0mm drill bit and drill them out.then replace with new rivets to put it back on.

[woodsy]

as above open the door and hold the handle back

you can see the (usually silver) rivets 1 at the top and 1 at the bottom

but all this a a meesing around as if you didnt have the rivets and gun a body shop would be your best bet to put them back on

wouldnt it be easier just to mask of the surrounding areas and spay while on

[Barry123]

that's what i did like

[lozi_murias]

Great, thanks guys....i'm all for the lazy person's way (just masking them off) but don't i have to sand them down before i can paint, necessitating taking them off?Wouldn't want to accidentally sand the paintwork while i'm at it!

I do have a drill but i don't know how to use it...!

[Barry123]

Just use a fair bit of masking tape and newspaper just to avoid getting droplets on the other panels. I have the 5door so i ended up covering the entire sides of the car. You know the score if you've paint bits n pieces before anyhow. I'm my opinion it looks tonnes better coding the handles

[Arioch]

Or an incredibly lazy and expensive way:

I`m sure Citroen do colour coded covers for the door handles

[woodsy]

dont need to sand just use a good few coats of primer to remove the natual texture

[Sean]

Originally Posted by woodsy

dont need to sand just use a good few coats of primer to remove the natual texture

yes you do have to sand in order to key the surface and give the primer something to stick to, otherwise it would end up just peeling off. sand the surface, prime, sand again, prime, wet and dry smooth, paint, laquer.

[woodsy]

i thought he meant to remove the ingrain

but i stand corrected lol

[lozi_murias]

Ahh sean your way sounds complicated... are you saying i have to sand down after i've put a coat of primer on?

And what is

Originally Posted by seanvtr81

wet and dry smooth,

??

I don't have metallic paint - how likely is it that my newly colour-coded bits will be darker due to fading of original 5yr-old colour?

Sorry for all the questions and faffing around i just want to get it right!

Thanks for your help

[Barry123]

What you want to do is get some very fine sand paper,they have a grading number on the back. 800 - 1200 should do the trick.

you need to give the handles a rub with the sand paper, remove some of the texturing on them, but dont worry too much. Lightly prime (get plastic primer by the way), dry with a hair dryer on gentle heat. Wait to dry, spray with colour, dry again. Then wet some of the sand paper and start to rub it, it'll seem like nothings going on but you're smoothing the paint which you'll notice when you run your finger over it. then dry the mirror. lightly spray again. dry. Laquer. dry. laquer somemore.

and your done!

Hope that clears that up for you!

[lozi_murias]

Thanks a lot adsayer, that's really helpful, you're a

...Foolproof!!

[Barry123]

no worries!

Helps to do lots of little coats rather than one big coat. so i'd recommend doubling up on the coating that i said.