"Carbon fiber" replacement door pulls

[langsbr]

After replacing one door pull already and having it, as well as the other 2 begin to turn to sticky goo, I decided to give some carbon fiber style door pulls a try. These are straight from China, no branding, but they fit fine and even if they don't look like real carbon fiber up close, they are good enough, and they aren't sticky so that's a plus!

Install was cake - drill out the OEM ones, install these with the provided screws and reassemble. It is both sides of the pull as well which is nice.

For under $80, this was a good mod. I probably spent close to that for one OEM replacement pull before.

 

[derekgates]

Looks good!

I admire the 4 door versions of these cars. I deal with the monstrous 2 doors and can't fathom people sitting in the rear of my car. I get surprised seeing a usable rear seat!

 

[doublespaces]

Wow, what camera do you have?

 

[langsbr]

Wow, what camera do you have?

Lol my wife says the same thing. I think it's the operator and not the device. LG supposedly claims the V30 ThinQ has a good camera but my pics never look good

 

[doublespaces]

Ah yes, one of those Layer 8 issues

 

[langsbr]

Damnit, I just showed the pictures to my wife and she said, "wtf did you take those with, a flip phone? You posted that?! If it the camera or the user?"

 

[derekgates]

Freaking funny.

In all seriousness...

- Try to level the photo the best you can... you can enable 'on screen lines' to help with orienting to horizon.
- Keep lens clean, it looks like there is some smearing.
- Don't shoot directly into light or an area with more light than the focal point. Dynamic range is very limited on phones so try to keep the ratio reduced (and prevent destruction of shadows).
- Be sure to tell the camera app what you want to focus on. Usually by tapping on subject. It should focus and adjust exposure for the desired point. (you should be able to adjust exposure by holding and dragging up/down depending on app)

 

[fmorelli]

Well you sure as hell know more about turbos than cameras!

Filippo

 

[KClemente]

Does that door pull clip on like oem? My inners are still good thankfully but the outers have that annoying "lemme dig my fingernails into it" look

 

[NoQuarter]

Damnit, I just showed the pictures to my wife and she said, "wtf did you take those with, a flip phone? You posted that?! If it the camera or the user?"

You put the screen protector on the wrong side?

 

[langsbr]

I expected more ribbing on the Chinese parts than my photography, lol. I took a few more pics, hopefully they are a bit better.

 

[fmorelli]

Vindicated! lol

Filippo