[ttangerine]

Thank you

 

[ttangerine]

I figured out the handle. There's a bolt you pry up and then the handle slides. Colors match ok enough when you replace both handles.

Thank you for all these instructions

do you know if you can install just the front door handles, or do all 4 need to be installed for this to work? Can’t figure out from the AE item description if the rear handles are functional or just cosmetic so all handles match.

 

[ttangerine]

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[ttangerine]

You can install just the front door handles and it works the same. Capacitive touch does not work on the rear.

That said it honestly is not that much more work to do the back and helps a lot with the color match. Even though the handles are beige it doesn't look off matching the other handles.

Btw it took me a while to learn, but the front handles can also lock the door by pressing on the top front of the handle, which is a nice feature.

The locking ability is huge. I am going to talk to my local car audio guys and see if they’re up for installing something like this. I’m fairly handy but not sure I want to tackle this alone. I may take the handles in to the body shop to be painted to match the car body- mine is silver. Thanks again for your posts.

 

[ttangerine]

Buy them prepainted from the factory. The $500 aliexpress option linked above comes in silver, if you repaint they are bound to fail as it's a high touch area. The job isn't too difficult all you need is a 10mm socket, phillips and flat screwdriver, small wire to pull through firewall and some zip ties. I'm a computer guy and don't normally work on cars and I figured it out.

Good point - I found the handles on Taobao in silver and ordered it from there ($125 before shipping, which I have to do separately through a friend in China). Chatting with the Taobao seller now, he sent over this link https://doc.wcbkj.com/index/carType.html?category_id=c57eadf6-9acd-51aa-ac5e-6e406d14982f (click on each of the three bullets to access an installation video under each).

This one in particular was helpful (you may need to wait a bit for it to render): https://doc.wcbkj.com/index/prodetail.html?id=d46c68ee-4304-7eb9-6bad-97f5665fe778

Let me know if any of it looks familiar. I wonder if it's from the same factory.

Will see how it goes!

 

[ttangerine]

My shipping agent sent photos of the door handle kit from Taobao. The silver looks darker than the standard silver.
I may need to visit an auto body shop and see if they can paint them professionally. Not ideal but I think the color mismatch will annoy me too much. Hopefully it’s just the lighting / shadows and it will look fine in person. But I’m pretty sure it’s off.

 

[ttangerine]

My shipping agent sent photos of the door handle kit from Taobao. The silver looks darker than the standard silver.
I may need to visit an auto body shop and see if they can paint them professionally. Not ideal but I think the color mismatch will annoy me too much. Hopefully it’s just the lighting / shadows and it will look fine in person. But I’m pretty sure it’s off.
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The handle kit arrived, and it’s actually a pretty good match!