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my car is goin to panel beater next week and im deciding whether to get the arial taken out and smoothed over, i dont realy need it cos i have the arial for the tv, but im just wanna know if this arial controlls the radio as well or is that only the car arial that gets the radio reception... i have no idea...

also im htinkin of shaving my door handles, is there alot of work involved for this, do they have to respray the whole doors?

any info would be great...

cheers...ben.

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the antenna at the rear is for radio, it would be a good idea to keep it, jsut cut the top stem of the stem and glue into the top with sellys no more gaps ;P

shaved doors, well you have to weld a piece into the spot where the handle was, reconfiger the wire inside to get it to work without handles(as they levers) and you would need to snad and bog it down alot to make look flat(whant welding it bents/warps the metal from the heat of welder)

your car would look different and be unique, but it will cost you ALOT to get done. I would buy spare doors and have them painted just incase you need to change doors, or you need parts :)

get the interior the same colour as the car at the same time, its worth it. and looks better. its old but it looks better when all the same colour. most of the parts will be off anyway.

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yeah i never use my arial also. its just a connection that u dont connect when hooking up a head unit to make it not work i think.

as for the doors...well i always wanted to bog up my key holes and make em flush but i heard that because its bog on plastic there might be a chance of cracking or paint discolour or peeling later on. who knows....i might give it a wack one day

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