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When my drivers handle failed, one year after buying my new 05, I decided to do the repair myself. When I first laid eyes on the failed plastic hinge points my first reaction was to laugh. How could any engineer ever expect this piece to function for any length of time in a high use environment? I just wanted to scream - This is a door handle dumb *** used constantly by a variety of people to get in and out of their car. The original hinged plastic part is without a doubt the most poorly designed piece I've seen to provide a most needed function. If you have the original designed piece it will fail sooner or later. The new design is significantly stronger, by a power of 3 or 4, and I checked mine last winter and it shows no wear after 2 years of use. Trying to be gentle might prolong the inevitable, but once the magic number of cycles is reached it's done.
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