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New 93 FD Passenger Interior Door Handle / Pull
06-22-08, 02:51 PM
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New 93 FD Passenger Interior Door Handle / Pull
Ray's price went up again on the passenger interior door handle, but I bought it anyway.
I asked for the 93-style but it appears to be different. I think it is a newer revision. The part number is FD01-69-44XE. My 93 parts catalog calls out FD01-69-44XA and XB (depending on vin#). The 95 catalog shows FD15-69-44X.
Anyway, the coating is rubberized on this version instead of the hazy plastic coating. I can't really comment on the door handle reinforcements because I don't know what the previous revs looked like yet. But I took a pic of a bolt that may have been added. Also (not shown) it looked like there was an epoxy filling at the top of the handle. I only had my cell phone camera with me at the time.
It is good that everything is better, but bad that its not quite going to match the rest of my interior.
I asked for the 93-style but it appears to be different. I think it is a newer revision. The part number is FD01-69-44XE. My 93 parts catalog calls out FD01-69-44XA and XB (depending on vin#). The 95 catalog shows FD15-69-44X.
Anyway, the coating is rubberized on this version instead of the hazy plastic coating. I can't really comment on the door handle reinforcements because I don't know what the previous revs looked like yet. But I took a pic of a bolt that may have been added. Also (not shown) it looked like there was an epoxy filling at the top of the handle. I only had my cell phone camera with me at the time.
It is good that everything is better, but bad that its not quite going to match the rest of my interior.
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06-23-08, 12:35 AM
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I'll try to take better pics next weekend. Where do we get Iono? Is it something that we can figure out how to apply? Someone on the forum had found a rubberized coating to redo his interior plastics - maybe the same stuff. That is the cheaper way of fixing the coating problem. There's a couple of threads on repairing/reinforcing the handle if that is what your problem is. I haven't installed it yet, but it will be pretty easy if I don't break anything while I remove the door panel.
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06-23-08, 01:59 AM
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I hope the quality is better than the regular one. I closed my passenger door from the driver's side using that handle and it was not even that hard, and the handle broke from the 5-6 little screws on the other side. I just used a whole bottle of epoxy and its as strong as ever.
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06-30-08, 02:28 PM
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No experience with 2 part epoxy huh? You can get it anywhere pretty much, probably even some grocery stores. Just comes with two gels in seperate tubes (sometimes they are connected together but still store the gels seperately), but then you just mix equal parts, and stir together. It can bond many things together, plastic being one of them. Like someone said before, a lot of times this glue is stronger than the plastic being applied to.
06-30-08, 02:33 PM
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No experience with 2 part epoxy huh? You can get it anywhere pretty much, probably even some grocery stores. Just comes with two gels in seperate tubes (sometimes they are connected together but still store the gels seperately), but then you just mix equal parts, and stir together. It can bond many things together, plastic being one of them. Like someone said before, a lot of times this glue is stronger than the plastic being applied to.
Anyways, I glued all 5/6 bolts where it attaches, and where it snapped at the top I used the rest of the bottle. Worked like a charm.
Randy
