The brushed aliminum covering the inside handle (driver's door panel) is badly scuffed and dinged.
At first I suspected that I was dinging the handle when I was pulling on the seat belt but quickly realized that I'm scuffing the handle with my watch whenever I reach with my left arm to adjust the seat position buttons or when reaching for something in the door's storage compartment.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to restore the brushed aliminum?
I have zero experience in detailing but am willing to buy basic tools (buffing wheels and so on).
Thanks,
dan

 

Once it's scratched it'll be hard to revive it. I just did this to my door handle. I think looks pretty cool.

 

+1 does look good. got any pics of it on the car?

 

^^Looks great! How did you do it? Overlay from somewhere or your own sheet? My handles need some tlc and was looking to do this.

 

I'll take some when I get off of work

 

Those look sweet. I should have thought to do that rather than just buy the 09 door handle pulls. Lol

 

I used 3m di noc vinyl. Look it up! It's pretty easy to do! All you need is a blow dryer and these stuff are flexible when heated up.

Lol! Just wrap your old ones. I'm about to wrap the trim where the seat memory is then I might try to do the center console. That is a difficult one to do cuz of the curves. I'll take some more pics later on. Stay tuned!

 

here's some pic's of it installed on the car

 

Those door pulls look really good Eric.

 

Did you use a razor to cut it perfectly like that after putting it on, or did you make a stencil first.

 

No! The excess material is tucked inside.

 

How do you remove the handles from the panels? I like your idea a lot better than buffing the aliminum, I won't have to worry about marking the handles with my watch in the future.

 

Cool, glad I can help.

Look at the bottom side of the handle and you'll see a tiny square hole. Then you stick a small flat head in there and gently pull it backwards. It'll pop off as you go.

 

Thanks Weiboy718 that's great.