5000 Door Handles

[Peter Golledge]

  Brain freeze... I meant to say a remote opener avoids using the 
_other_ part of the door handles which seems to break frequently.  Still
got to take care of the latches etc though!  :-)

On 10/13/2010 9:49 PM, Huw Powell wrote:
> How does running the power locks remotely avoid using the door handle 
> trigger?
>
> On 10/13/2010 2:47 PM, Peter Golledge wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
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