Breaking door handles
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Breaking door handles
In my trucks life time well over $250 has been spent on door handles. I bacicly break a door handle every 6 months now. It's a crappy design. Alot of upward force on a peice of plastic that's attached to a metal latch... It's stupid... I've greased them up, done just about everything so that less force is used, nothing works.... Does anyone know where I can find metal door handles because it's starting to **** me off...
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I am assuming that u are talking about the inside door handles? My truck is a '97 n with 195,000 miles. Only once, I had a drivers side handle break on me. I was told that any other brand but Ford, are not as the same original quality. I am not saying that I didn't break a factory handle, but my local parts guy told me that, he keeps them in stock now. I went to local truck junk yard and left with few of each side. Doubt I will break other one though. Just my two cents. I also pulled off a set of interior door handle that came off,...I think two before mine, a pair of metal ones. So if u have a local place to check, it may be worth ur time......
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I've broken a ton of them. I've never seen a metal one in any of the ones from the 80s (8th gen) or early 90s (9th gen). I found some on ebay, so I'm very happy.
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In my trucks life time well over $250 has been spent on door handles. I bacicly break a door handle every 6 months now. It's a crappy design. Alot of upward force on a peice of plastic that's attached to a metal latch... It's stupid... I've greased them up, done just about everything so that less force is used, nothing works.... Does anyone know where I can find metal door handles because it's starting to **** me off...
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I got mine from an 84 f150 with metal ones.....plastic ones suck
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my 95 has had the same handles for well over 7yrs without a break and they are the plastic ones, i must have gotten the only good set ever made the way it sounds. i have friends that go thru them every 6 months
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