Re: Door Handles

[grubster@megsinet.net (Martin Gruby)]

At 07:13 PM 8/6/96 -0500, you wrote:
This is very true. My family is in the car business and by quite a few
Audi's.. Models in the mid 80's. Usuall either the locks are screwed up, the
windows don't work or the doors won't open. On my car, '88 80 quatto, the
door handles fell especially cheap and aren't don't fell stong when you pull
on it. You can see the how piece handle move when you open the door.

>Audi as with Vw's suffered from failing door handles, especially when
>strong armed!  I've changed a few because of an internal piece broken
>or the handle cracked and the force of opening has bent the lever to not 
>allow one to enter.
>Remidy: theirs two screws holding each handle on the door along with
>the linkage to the central locking sys. One screw hides under the chrome
>trim piece om the handle and the other  is above the main latch assy.  
>under a rubber piece inline with the handle. pull these two screws and 
>inspect the handles! their probably cracked. function the handles while
>observing the mechanisms motion and look for limit of motion.
>Handles are fairly common used and the lock tumblers are 
>interchangeable.(you can put your old locks in a new handle)
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