POS FC door handles!
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From: Rohnert Park CA
Originally Posted by Sir Rupert Hobo
same here.... TWO drivers side handles broke.
if a door handle is made with good material, it should last the life of the car.
if a door handle is made with good material, it should last the life of the car.
Two of them... maybe you're beating the hell out of the door handles
Last edited by Icemark; Apr 6, 2005 at 06:23 PM.
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Displacement > Boost
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From: Mississippi
Fatigue cracking of poor metal maybe? There's more than ultimate failure strength going on here, and handles take more force to open as they linkage goes out of adjustment over the years. I really think it's a metal composition / fatigue situation, not an ultimate load situation.
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From: city of houston.... y0!
Originally Posted by Icemark
Again maybe not a Mazda issue...Maybe just a loose nut behind the wheel
Two of them... maybe you're beating the hell out of the door handles
Two of them... maybe you're beating the hell out of the door handles
ever since i had my gxl, i've always been cautious of how i handle the, uh handle because i heard of how weak the FC & FD's were. and it STILL broke. when i got my SE, it was alreay broke
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From: Charlotte, NC
When I got my '91 FC a year or so ago, my pass. side handle was already broke and the car only had 80,000 miles on it... Not to mention, I think someone out there knows that these lock cylinders are crap because I have found mine screwed with after leaving the car in the same place for a week or two... this only makes my key work even worse! Thank god they didn't get in though.. must not've been very good car thieves. =)
I'm a boost creep...
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From: Auckland, New Zealand
Originally Posted by 88IntegraLS
I'll bust out the free body diagram and transform equations to show how little factor of safety is designed into that slender arm if you want.
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From: St. Peters, MO
both of my door handles broke within 3 months of each other. the passenger side breaking was just shocking. that side gets 1/100 the use the driver side does.
i had to pull the ones off my project car or my *** would be crawling through the hatch.
which i seemingly have to do once per year anyway when both my doors/locks get frozen.
i had to pull the ones off my project car or my *** would be crawling through the hatch.
which i seemingly have to do once per year anyway when both my doors/locks get frozen.
