door handle

[Mattish]

Hi all,

My drivers side door handle has started coming loose, I pulled the door card off to see the plastic around the nut set into the plastic door handle is broken

I guess this means new door handle time unless I epoxy around the old nut, how easy is changing the handle and more importantly the lock barrel? Anyone have a spare handle ?


Cheers,
Matt

[SuperRedMR2]

When I replaced my door on my mk1a, I replaced the door handles so that locks would be the same...

Right pain in the ar$e of a job - my opinion! Hurt knuckles, lots of swearing

[crazylegs]

disagree its a piece of pi$$ when you have done a couple. the lock is a single bolt, the handle is two bolts. its the clips that are fiddly.you need small hands and a bit of patience. i have spare handles PM me with what you want.

[kaiowas]

its the clips that are fiddly.you need small hands and a bit of patience. i have spare handles PM me with what you want.

Recently discovered an easy way of doing the clips too.

With the window wound down and the door card removed, remove the weather strip along the top of the door (You need to undo 1 screw in the rubber moulding on the end of the door plus 2 screws in the weather strip itself, then the strip should pull off the top of the door with a bit of care and effort)

With the weather strip out of the way you've got decent access to the door handle through the top of the door and can easily lever the clips off with a screwdriver.

[Superfly]

Hi, I take it the last post here is the best method of changing the locks?

I'm currently looking at the BGB scratching my head.

Also, drivers window goes up and down rhythmically (not smoothly) but works fine nonetheless. Is this something easily sorted or best left alone.

[kaiowas]

If you're just doing the locks there us no need to actually remove the door handle, you can swap the lock over with the handle in place, it's just 1 clip to detach the mechanism from the lock, then a 10mm bolt to get the lock off the door handle.

Stuttering windows is usually one or more broken teeth on the gear on the motor. Replacements aren't too hard to come by either original or slightly stronger after market ones

[Superfly]

With door card removed is best method - lower window and remove weather strip to access lock or is there a better way?

[coanda]

Seems like windows down and removing the weather strip is the best way.

I pretty much had to dislocate my wrist to get the correct number of degrees of freedom to put the door handles and locks back on the doors after my repaint from the door car side because the windows were up and the car isn't powered up.

[Superfly]

Cheers, I'm just wondering how the lock connects to the rest of the mech via that plastic clip. I don't want to undo it then find I can't fit it back together but I think I may just have to take the plunge. The metal rod clips in but then goes through the eye of the clip - is there something holding it on the other side or not?

Edit - done drivers side. Bit of care and jiggery and easy peasy. Even with the trim out of the way it's tight. Held the lock in place with the key when putting the nut back in and used the access hole to screw the nut in. All trim back - must have taken no more than half an hour, and I'm a rank amateur! Just the other side, boot and ignition to do now and I'll be on the one key!

Thanks for the help!