5000 Door Handles

[Peter Golledge]

Good advice... the other thing I do is put a cheap remote opener in the car and splice
it in to operate the vacuum door pump.  Not using the handles definitely extends their
life!

On 10/13/2010 10:08 AM, Dr. Ian McArthur wrote:
> I have had Audi 5000 door handle problems for years.  Like many other
> listers the first things I scavenge from the auto wreckers are door handles.
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> There are two problems.  As Huw pointed out the triggers are indeed pot
> metal and break with age.  There are actually at least two different types
> of handles: early ones has thinner trigger webs, later models featured
> thicker webs.  The second, and more significant problem is a worn plastic
> ring (or tube or bushing) around the shaft on the latch pin mounted on the
> door frame.