Well i bought this truck 3 months ago its an 05 1500 and well its time to start improving the looks. The first thing I did was shave the emblems on the tailgate and gave it a good wash, polish, and sealant. Then I changed all the interior lights to Cool white leds. Now today i painted the door handle to match the truck and let me tell you that was alot of work but it will look better i think. I just have to install them yet. Next on the list is daul exhaust, white mirror caps, a bed cover, maybe billet grille, then some wheels and tires. and so on. Here are some pics.
Here she is emblems shaved but otherwise stock.


Here are some interior with the leds done.




And Here are the freshly painted handles.

 

looks great, did you get smooth handles or what did you do to them?

 

if they werent smooth, that was alot of work!

 

wow man looks good......did you smooth them handles urself!!! thats nyuts lots o work there

 

thanks for the complements guys and yet i smoothed my stock black ones. It was a ton of work but well worth it now tho.

 

Nice! As you can already tell it never ends. The handles will make a huge difference.

I bought already painted handles for mine, but smoothed my own tailgate handle and bezel. It takes time, but really isn't that bad. Now doing the dash plastics is a different story...

 

Its gonna be a killer looking truck when you done with it, Youre on the right track.

 

That looks awesome...I have Esky handles to be installed on my doors, but they don't make one for the tailgate with the chrome handle and smooth bezel AFAIK, guess I'm going to have to mix and match. What did you do with your tailgate handle/bezel. I'm assuming that you smoothed and painted your old bezel, but what chrome handle is that?

 

The chrome pieces are just covers. I wanted to buy the actual chrome handles but they are to expensive.

 

how long did it take you to change out the interior lights for leds