Info On Deleting Door Handles

[Vs_Esteem]

Hi all
just after some info on deleting door handles an that,an what ya use to open the doors.im looking at doing a few things to my vs as its just sitting in garage with blown box.

[tt460]

You still need a way to open the doors from the outside, you will find it hard to get it passed legally.

people often hide them near the mirrors and are normally operated by a solenoid, so if your battery goes flat you can be locked out of the car

[axemurderer101]

if ya had a dead battery i suppose you could get a good battery and jumper cable, connect one end to ya good battery and get under your car and connect the other positive to the starter cable and the negative cable to the chassis

[Vs_Esteem]

yeah ya be bit pissed if that happens,iv seen a few cars getting around with it done just havent asked them how they open them an info on it

[shiftySLE]

there heaps of ways of doing it, folding the mirrors as a handle, you can get rid of the whole handle and have a manual coulour coded flush mount button which you'll hardly see. we just had a monaro at my works stand at the motor show in Melbourne which was electronic door poppers. the idea is the same as the boot release, you press a remote and it pushes the door open about two inches. we are taking the car to the springnats in shepparton if you can, come check it out. for safety, it had extra button somewhere on the car in case the remote went flat (i cant say where that was sorry, like a kill switch, personal choice) and a plug which you could plug in a little external battery in case the main battery was dead. This car is also road registered, I'll post some pics. Also, it look tough as with no handles so you should do it.

[M01ST]

We did this to my mates mini truck...

After I installed central locking for him, we took the door handle, drilled a hole in the top of the door near inline with the inner doorlock(but on the outside of the car if that makes sense).

We then welded a little round bar about 2 mil in thickness to the door handle mechanism, and it stick out the top of the door. You can buy little caps to go over them from certain ricer shops and maybe supercheap??? We then made a template cut out some sheetmetal and welded it over where the handle holes were, bogged it up and painted.

Not a A1 job but it doesnt look half bad.

[rocco555]

do you really want to do this little ricer mod to a vs commodore?

bit tacky isn't it?

[hakhawk]

do you really want to do this little ricer mod to a vs commodore?

bit tacky isn't it?

do tell how smoothing a panel is "tacky"

least he isnt bolting on monstrous body kit

[rocco555]

he's not "smoothing a panel", he is installing a gay little gizmo

whats wrong with door handles? all cars have them... in fact the car will just look wierder without them

then he's gotta put up with ppl asking how to open the doors every time, and then have to explain like a nerd that he's gone to a lot of effort to install a useless doovalaky to try and impress people and make them think "wow, i wish one day i too can own a 1995 vs commodore with fully sik door handles"

if your into having an OTT ricer, then go ahead, whatever rocks your boat, but on an old commodore it just doesn't suit



monstrous bodykits and stupid gadgets like this go hand in hand

[hakhawk]

he's not "smoothing a panel", he is installing a gay little gizmo

whats wrong with door handles? all cars have them... in fact the car will just look wierder without them

then he's gotta put up with ppl asking how to open the doors every time, and then have to explain like a nerd that he's gone to a lot of effort to install a useless doovalaky to try and impress people and make them think "wow, i wish one day i too can own a 1995 vs commodore with fully sik door handles"

if your into having an OTT ricer, then go ahead, whatever rocks your boat, but on an old commodore it just doesn't suit



monstrous bodykits and stupid gadgets like this go hand in hand

the op isnt isntalling anything yet. he is asking how to go about shaving the door handles.

one way to do this is with a "gay little gizmo", another way is to extend a standard rod in the existing mechanism and have a little button protrude the outer door skin at the top, this way doesnt need any "useless doovalakys"


people were doing this way before ricers came to surface.


i have removed the lock barrels and smoothed the handle surround to the door metal on mine, i guess thats riceresque aswell?

[BecStar]

I saw an episode of Overhaulin' where this lady got her Chrysler wagon overhauled, they got rid of the door handles and all the lady had to do was put the back of her hand where the handles used to be and it would pop open.

There's this chick getting her VS done up at the panel shop next to our workshop, it's looking sooooo ugly at the moment. It's a v6 with a 'monkey kit'? There's fibreglass moulding stuff on the inside of the doors aswell and they're getting rid of the door handles. My first impression was that they were trying to make it look like a VE kit, the wheel archy bits have been flared out heaps.

Can't wait to see it when it's finished but I don't know how legal it is. Maybe its just a showcar...

[shiftySLE]

he's not "smoothing a panel", he is installing a gay little gizmo

whats wrong with door handles? all cars have them... in fact the car will just look wierder without them

then he's gotta put up with ppl asking how to open the doors every time, and then have to explain like a nerd that he's gone to a lot of effort to install a useless doovalaky to try and impress people and make them think "wow, i wish one day i too can own a 1995 vs commodore with fully sik door handles"
if your into having an OTT ricer, then go ahead, whatever rocks your boat, but on an old commodore it just doesn't suit
monstrous bodykits and stupid gadgets like this go hand in hand

so where do you draw the line, what in your book is allowed without being a ricer, big wheels?, they were coming out on ricers while street machine were still going for 15" convo's and centrelines and stuff. Are clubbys ricers, they have a big body kit, what about the walkinshaw. I think if you like it, then do it and he's trying to get info to do it himself which is the best way to learn stuff.

[tt460]

so where do you draw the line, what in your book is allowed without being a ricer, big wheels?, they were coming out on ricers while street machine were still going for 15" convo's and centrelines and stuff. Are clubbys ricers, they have a big body kit, what about the walkinshaw. I think if you like it, then do it and he's trying to get info to do it himself which is the best way to learn stuff.

To me rice or ricer is a non performance or handling mod. putting a clubby kit on your stock V6 is rice but putting clubby suspension and brakes is not.

[shiftySLE]

i think most people make a decision on what they see on other people cars anyway, but somewhere along the way, someone has to take the risk and be the first to do something, anyway the biggest non performance, if anything performance reducing mod is big heavy boxes and subs in the boot but everyone doing it, rice? and bodykits are actually to reduce drag, when it comes down to it, buying modifying or whatever you do to a car, its personel choice, the rice vs muscle car thing is like holden vs ford, its just a bit of fun.

[Cobra Clutch]

To me rice or ricer is a non performance or handling mod. putting a clubby kit on your stock V6 is rice but putting clubby suspension and brakes is not.

I don't mind if he wants to do it, but that is exactly what a ricer is...


Plus, if you think putting a bodykit and/or a spoiler on a stocky car is going to help wind resistance, then you are bloody kidding yourself. Unless you're hitting top-end speeds, it is making almost zero impact...

Either way, if you wanna make little things like that on your car its cool with me, its fun to work on your car and make it your own, I love learning to do little things like that.
If I had time and less important things to do, I'd probably have a go at something like that myself...maybe

[rocco555]

am not gonna get into a debate as to what is "ricer" and what is not

but this particular type of modification is lame, especially on an old commodore

I have removed the lock barrels and smoothed the handle surround to the door metal on mine, i guess thats riceresque aswell?

unfortunately... yes





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[sweefu]

To me rice or ricer is a non performance or handling mod. putting a clubby kit on your stock V6 is rice but putting clubby suspension and brakes is not.

Better take the cd player and speakers out of your car mate considering that its a non performance or handling mod. it will only add weight to your performance oriented vs.

[hakhawk]

am not gonna get into a debate as to what is "ricer" and what is not

but this particular type of modification is lame, especially on an old commodore

unfortunately... yes

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fortunately for some though, id rather a nice clean smooth old commodore than a boring looking stocker.(note: i havent even bothered to look for any pics of your car, so if my comment offends you, tuff titties)

i bet you hate my bmw, projector headlights, clear indicators, shaved door locks, repainted :O stretched tyres, aftermarket chrome mirrors.

i bet its making you sick just reading that list of some of my non-performance orientated mods.

[rocco555]

fortunately for some though, id rather a nice clean smooth old commodore than a boring looking stocker.(note: i havent even bothered to look for any pics of your car, so if my comment offends you, tuff titties)

i bet you hate my bmw, projector headlights, clear indicators, shaved door locks, repainted :O stretched tyres, aftermarket chrome mirrors.

i bet its making you sick just reading that list of some of my non-performance orientated mods.

i never said i don't like non-performance mods, i just don't like the whole hi-tech/gimmiky/hidden door handle thing... especially on a commodore

[pjdm1980]

ATTACK HIM HE CALLED A COMMODORE A RICER, HE MUST DIE!!!!!! LMAO
Can't people just have an opinion without it being personal?
It's all fun and games till somebody loose a nail, he he he.

[M01ST]

Haha its hard to get advice without a argument starting nowadays.

[Rav3n616]

only reason for removing door handles is if you intend to either turn it into a 2 door or change to suicide doors, in that case the handles just move over to the other side of the door but i suppose a door pop could be alright in that case aswell. not a big fan of ricer gadgets on a nice car like urs but whatever floats your boat

[TR33VV]

Haha its hard to get advice without a argument starting nowadays.

What did ya say about my mum ?!?