Door handles etc after paint? Monochrome?

[78 Chevyrado]

When I redid my truck, I used new door handles too. the chrome and general finish looked a lot better tha an NOS set, but the plastic button was total crap. After a couple of months the actual button collapsed and broke to bits. Everything else seemed to work fine, so I just swapped the buttons from my OLD handles into the new chrome handle and its worked like a charm ever since. I did have to do some fitting to get the old button to fit in the hole of the new handle, but that just means theyre tight, and they look right.

So IMO If you get new handles, put some old original buttons in them first.