Any experience with Rennspeed's Sill plates?

[neilk]

I had my car repainted and still haven't reinstalled the door sill plates. The old ones look too worn to install on a freshly painted car and I don't want to invest in OEM ones. Does anyone have any experience with Rennspeed's threshold and carpet plates as seen in the Ebay listing?

Thanks,
Neil

[erick72pors]

Neil,

These plates are quite similar to original one, but certainly not exact. The sill plate is painted a shiny silver paint, whereas the original is polished aluminum.

Erick

[Bobboloo]

I just got a set of these.

Actually the original OEM are anodized aluminum where as the Rennspeed ones are polished aluminum and there in lies their main draw back. As soon as you touch them it tarnishes them and starts leaving fingerprints. So they either need to be clear coated or anodized. Anodizing would be ideal because I think you would have to have them and the OEM side by side to be able to tell a difference and even then you wouldn't know which was OEM and which was repro unless you had studied an OEM one beforehand.

For $100 and a $10 rattle can of clear coat it's a good deal but anodizing them will probably double the price which makes them a so so deal.

[raspy2point2]

I bought mine at Performance Products and there is no paint on them; they are anodized aluminum and look graet. Actually my orignals were a slightly brighter tone of aluminum but were soo scratched up after a new paint job; no way were they going back on the car a my aluminum restoration shop said because of the small lines of texture on the surface, they could not be restored. Hope this helps Chris Early S reg. #205