'80's audi door handle question

[Kneale Brownson]

At 12:55 PM 12/19/2000 -0500, Marc Swanson wrote:

> > While pounding the ice off my already broken door handle I'm
> > wondering if the newer style VW/Audi
> > door handles can be retrofitted to the older style like those on my 4kq?
>
>anything is possible with a big enough hammer :-)
>
>Seriously though, I'm going to swap the 100/200 stle door handles (the ones
>you pull UP on to open the door) onto my 4kq as yet another winter project.
>Basically, the internal mechanism is the same inbetween these cars but the
>handle is molded into a different pattern of metal on the 200/100 doors.  If
>you want to swap the handle you need to cut out the metal around the 100/200
>handle and then cut out the metal around the 4kq handle and then carefull
>align the mechanisms on the 4k door with the 200 sheet metal.. finally, weld
>in place and then make it beautifull and VOILA, door handles that don't
>break ;-)

What makes you think the "lift-flap" style is breakproof (at least in 
Audi's application)?