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Old 06-02-2006, 08:57 PM
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Interior door handles

Couldn't find this answer using the search, so I figured I'd ask - are the interior door handles aluminum or plastic with metal color paint?
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going from the price of them (27.20) i highly doubt they are real aluminum
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They definitely feel plastic.
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Yeah, I suspect they're plastic - I did a test today - ran the AC on cold for a while and began touching the known aluminum surfaces. The aluminum surfaces were really cold where as the door handles weren't too cold to the touch.
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Not sure if I'd want them to be real aluminum. I bet they'd get really hot to the touch when the interior gets hot during the summer.
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does anyone know what type of paint they are using to fool us like that? i think the grille is the same, but it doesn't get rock chips easily like a painted grille.
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They're actually quite heavy once you seperate them from the plastic.

They're made of what appears to be "pot metal", kind of a low quality cast steel that is polished and plated, then brushed to look like aluminum.
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