Illuminated Door Handles

bndawgs · September 22, 2017

I prefer painted. The color doesn't match the chrome.

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Can i remove the chrome trim while installed on the truck? going off of memory, it's just a few tabs right?

Grumpy Bear · September 22, 2017

I love cross model parts bin shoppers. Nice work.

jpinoy · September 22, 2017

Can i remove the chrome trim while installed on the truck? going off of memory, it's just a few tabs right?

For the handle part, you have to remove the screw at the end, and then have to slide it off, towards the rear(if it's on the truck already), not sure if the part that bends around the end will clear the smaller part. Also, the small part(other part of the handle), you have to release the tabs from inside...

bndawgs · September 22, 2017

i hate taking off the door panels. such a pain

Rock1500 · September 22, 2017

Man and I just bought matching door handles. Now I wish I didn't. Lol

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Korazu · September 22, 2017

Sure, no problem, but the install might not happen anytime soon. Weekends are getting busy and so is work. I just wanted to have the parts ready just in case I get an unexpected free weekend.. [emoji1]

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No problem as I am not in a hurry to spend more money either! LOL

I didn't even know this was a thing . . .

Oh no

Neither did I, but my hats off to people like Phil who like to tinker and think of these things!

pgamboa · September 23, 2017

No problem as I am not in a hurry to spend more money either! LOL

Neither did I, but my hats off to people like Phil who like to tinker and think of these things!

Thanks! I saw someone posted about these handles here and actually did. So while I was certainly not the first, I wanted to share and document my experience so that others could can also achieve this upgrade.

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pgamboa · September 24, 2017

Wanted to share some pics on the driver side door “Keyhole Delete” when retrofitting these handles.

Thanks to @cbrsilv15 for the tip!

I left my cylinder in the base as I didn’t want to mess with the removing it. So when you remove the base, the cylinder stays in.

The worry I had was in the event of a dead battery, how I could get into the truck. Well, thanks to @cbrsilv15, he shared the process.

Pull the handle, and push the cover off to reveal the key hole. It was that easy!

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170924/4d37f09468d2308c95ae8809b836765f.heic

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170924/bcf252cb222a2637707ac76c0101cd44.heic

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jpinoy · September 24, 2017

Wanted to share some pics on the driver side door “Keyhole Delete” when retrofitting these handles.

Thanks to @cbrsilv15 for the tip!

I left my cylinder in the base as I didn’t want to mess with the removing it. So when you remove the base, the cylinder stays in.

The worry I had was in the event of a dead battery, how I could get into the truck. Well, thanks to @cbrsilv15, he shared the process.

Pull the handle, and push the cover off to reveal the key hole. It was that easy!

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170924/4d37f09468d2308c95ae8809b836765f.heic

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170924/bcf252cb222a2637707ac76c0101cd44.heic

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Was it really that easy to pull off? From you video I thought you had to push up on some tabs from underneath.

Now I feel like gave bndawgs wrong info on removing the chrome trim pieces once it's already in place..

towboater81 · September 25, 2017

Just finished adding Escalade - Illuminated Door Handles. Made a "How-To" video for it. Took me about 6 hours but mainly due to recording the video.

Look the new look!

Looks great can't wait to do this. Thanks for sharing.

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Black Denali Canada · September 25, 2017

Badass!!

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pgamboa · September 25, 2017

Was it really that easy to pull off? From you video I thought you had to push up on some tabs from underneath.

Now I feel like gave bndawgs wrong info on removing the chrome trim pieces once it's already in place..

There are tabs underneath but when cbsilv15 shared a YouTube video of a dealer showing how to access in the case of a dead battery, I tried it and it worked.

pgamboa · September 25, 2017

Here is a video showing.

https://youtu.be/zVoGJ_NPp4k

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bndawgs · September 25, 2017

I was wondering about that if the battery died. That's comforting to know. Now I need to decide whether to stay with chrome or try and get the tops painted.