after 4 or 5 broken door handles

 

231 views after 12 hours of making a thread but no responses. So everyone thinks this is:
1>a lousy idea
2>an obvious idea
3>totally useless
4>no one understands it (like when I was making this, I felt like an ape doing an intelligence test)

 

It's a nice solution. They don't break that often but when they do this will come in handy.

 

I think if you described it better and had some explanation under each of the pics
interation would have been higher. As it is we have to load the pics, scrutinize them
to even understand what you did and then make a comment. Most us didn't want
to do that apparently. Plus the pics are a bit fuzzy and hard to see exactly what
was done.

I'm not dissing you BTW, just giving you feedback on how I see it. Looks like it
solves the problem, so good stuff.

 

maybe this is better, remove the blackened areas. If you use a hand hack saw, it is about as much work as cutting a 2 by 4 by hand. A saber saw was cumbersome, noisy, and metal flecks were flying everywhere. The hack saw was neater.

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The two dots show where the holes go. Left side will be the outside handle. On the OEM door handle, the metal where the rod inserts is most stressed is the thinnest. Gotta be designed to fail, planned obsolescence b. s. Being an engineer at a car company must be really weird.

 

I like to use a dremel for small work like that. Easy to manage and not too messy. Does require
a bunch of disks depending on what you are cutting.

 

Driver side.



I could almost weld/screw/glue the outer part of the OEM to the new robust door handle. Suggestions?

 

Great job,thanks for the description of what you did.should help a lot of people out

 

I admire the ingenuity but am I right that this leaves a bar of metal exposed under the door handle which is (a) ugly; and (b) can be felt when you open the door?

 

The exposed metal under the door handle is factory finished edge so it is not as bad as what is visible, it could be smoother. On the passenger side, the rough part where I cut is already rusting after a slight rain shower.

I'd like to anodize the new handle, and attach the outer part of the OEM door handle to it.

 

 

I think its a good solution that will work perfectly until a new handle is sourced. Thank you for sharing the pics!

 

Atkins and Mazdatrix door handles = $65 If they are OEM, they will break.

Some nefarious people go around breaking them. For instance, after an airplane trip, I came back to two busted door handles in the airport parking lot. There are a lot of miserable mf's in the world. It starts with breaking rx-7 fb door handles, escalates to abusing small animals, and then they become serial killers. It goes back to bad potty training.

 

 

still going strong ! ............. after 5 years 2 months and 15 days and 17 hours