I got jealous of the nice aluminum door sill plates in my wife's Mini and even my lowly Toyota. So, I decided to one-up:
What's better than aluminum plates? Stainless steel, of course. I had a machine shop laser out plates from 0.7mm bright annealed 316 stainless steel sheet. I then laid down a vinyl mask to cover what I wanted to remain polished. I used 70 grit aluminum oxide to media blast the letters.
I cleaned up the plates and used very thin 3M VHB to attach them to the original plastic sill plates.
I think they look good, but I am a sucker for shiny things. As usual, I made some extra ones (Talon and Eclipse) for anyone interested. See the for sale section about that.
#105108, "RE: I Made Some Door Sill Plate...Plates" In response to Reply # 0
You know, corbin, I wish the community had more of you. You excell in everything you do.
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'95 Eclipse TurboGS (garage deco) '95 TSi AWD (restoring a survivor) '97 Talon ESi-T (poor impulse control) '99 Eclipse RS-T (daily beater) '13 Evo X (mostly stock) '17 Sienna (Middle Aged Dad Mobile)
#105113, "RE: I Made Some Door Sill Plate...Plates" In response to Reply # 5
If I get enough interest to do another run, I'll take some custom orders (Avenger, Big Evil, etc). There is a lot of setup work for each step, so I have to make a bunch at a time.