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ralph4u2c
Dodge Dakota
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3/14/2005
13:50:46
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i bought the kit to shave my tailgate, now i wanna shave my door handles before i get a new paint job.
does anyone sell a filler plate kit to shave the doors or done it, i havent seen many dak kits or shaved daks (cept for tailgates)
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dodgeee-O
Dodge Dakota
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3/19/2005
12:06:39
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bump, i'd like to know also...
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choochoo
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3/22/2005
21:42:24
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Why would someone want to shave their door handles? Mine are not growing any hair yet. Maybe they're not old enough!
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dodgeee-o
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3/22/2005
21:44:09
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damn, got a email notification, thought it may be a useful answer hehe.
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choochoo
Dodge Dakota
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3/22/2005
21:53:11
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Seriously, how would you open the door if the handle was shaved off? Guess I don't understand the idea.
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dodgeee-o
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3/22/2005
21:56:21
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there are door poppers, you'd do the drivers side by remote then in vehicle you can pop open the other doors. Can have some remotes even open other doors as well other then the drivers.
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ace
Dodge Dakota
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3/22/2005
22:21:55
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i heard they were thinkin about makin them illegal ...not that it really matters
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P Y E
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3/24/2005
09:26:56
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They are not going to be illegal, but they are very very very unreliable.
Pop-locks are the crappiest thing around right now. I know a guy(over the internet) with his award winning race burner that was locked out of his car for over 2 hours do to the pop locks malfunctioning, which they do, all the time.
Shave your doors, and thet the "under-foot" handle kit. All it is is a relocation of the door handle, to underneath the car. You pull the handle with you foot, it's awsomeness. :o)
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ace
Dodge Dakota
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3/24/2005
10:34:11
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i agree with P Y E,
they are very unreliable but the reason i said they may be illegal is because it would be alot harder for a cop to get into your car. read this on the internet when i was thinking about shaving mine.
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dodgeee-o
Dodge Dakota
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3/24/2005
14:17:54
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i'm not particularily worried about being locked out as i'm doing this to a dodge durango (same doors as dakota), but the 5th door in the back will not be shaved so worse comes to worse i'd have to climb through the back and open up a door.
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thicker
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3/28/2005
09:58:31
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I shaved all of my handles and they just grew back much thicker. Guess I'll need another paint job.
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choochoo
Dodge Dakota
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3/28/2005
22:46:28
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Hey "thicker", guess your rig is more mature than mine. My Dak is 2004 and too young to grow hair and shave yet. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,....
Could also be that I live in northern Ontario where the winters are colder and the hair won't grow.
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jay
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4/04/2005
15:01:09
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they are not unreliable if you spend the money and buy a good kit. it's not acually the poppers that open the doors it the electric acuators.if you get the right acuators for the weight of you doors and wire it right you should have no problems. my buddys had them on his car for 3 years and not a minutes trouble. but he takes his time and make sure everthings right.btw they are illegal in b.c. but thats optional.
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99ddsrc
Dodge Dakota
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4/10/2005
01:31:35
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Haha, bunch of comedians in here.
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dean
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7/10/2005
11:26:50
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i've shaved handels on many many cars and trucks and i agree with jay as long as you do it right you will never have problems other then if you let the batt. die but that's why you leave yourself a fail safe ie. a pull chain or i have even put batt. posts under the front bumper to jump it. one little tid bit of advice i can give to all wanting to do this (just had to do it for a friend that bought one that had this problem) when you are in the door and hooking up your selonoid make sure you put the door in the unlocked pos. and cut the arm off the latch so it cant be locked if someone tries to break in it. it took me 5 hours on an s10 to get the door open, someone at one time had tried to steal the truck and used a slimjim to try and open the door, while doin this they locked the door so even the popper wouldnt open it and neather would the handel inside. and all of you just try to get the door pannel off in a full custom int. without opening the door,and not destroying the custom junk. whata bitch.
Dean
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copterfixer
Dodge Dakota
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7/29/2005
12:22:03
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Ok check this out in all seiousness. Aside from my usual griping about stuff like this. lets say you get into an accident where you get knocked out or something. How would you be removed from your car or truck without door handles? Jaws of life? when the fire department uses those did you know that you are billed for their services?!!! Yes your vehcile probably was not damaged to the point they are needed only for the fact that there are no door handles. now instead of just repairing lets say your front end. Now your vehicle is totaled cause it was cut open like a can to get you out of it. I dont think the insurance company would be all to happy about that. Or well i dont know if there is a back up in those pop kits or not. But lets say what do you do if your battery dies? Then what? Or just simply enough they malfunction. So now you paid good hard earned money to remove your door handles. And now your paying for the jaws of life to get you out. And your paying for a whole new truck cause i am willing to bet that the insurance company wont total your truck casue you modded it. Or at the very least you have to pay a lock smith to open your truck just cause the battery died. O yea there is also a battery in that remote that is prone to dieing without warning. O yes another thing could happen you got your ball of keys but the remote was destroyed because you dropped your keys.
Now serouly i am courious cause i know nothing about these pop lock deals i wont cut my handles off? But please educate me on what would happen in these circumstances.
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Dean
Dodge Dakota
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7/29/2005
23:22:41
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look at post above and chances are if they knew they could open the doors if they could get to a latch which do you think with would use the jaws or just bust the window out
common guy think for a little which ones faster
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copterfixer
Dodge Dakota
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7/29/2005
23:55:14
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Yes there i went just a bit off the handle about the jaws of life thing
sure they would just bust the window
but still is this worth your handles???
why break a window and yes i did read the above posts.
most people dont think about all these posabilites tho
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