MILKILOS

Is the broken door handle common in the 1st. gen. TL's??? Almost every other one i've seen has the broken popped out handle... it still works, it is just missing a spring or something...

Has anybody had them repaired? How Much? DIY, How???

982.5TL

As far as i know they cant be repaired, they have to be replaced. Some stupid spring pops out and thats all she wrote. It happened to me yesterday. I was so pissed. They are expensive too. If anyone does know how to repair them please let us know.

Matt97TL2.5

Provided you have the proper ghetto fabrication skills and jb weld

Take a pic of the door handle so I can see what you're talking about.

MongooseDog

I think he means that the handle no longer springs back into place it kinda jus floats now. happened to both my front doors. I tried to fix it myself but that didn't work out so well.

Mandy

Had the Dealer do it, it is not so easy to do it. Did it on both Handles, Driver and Passenger. Cost a lot. Handle itself is ~ $120.00. Labor is 2 hours, ~ $150.00.

Sucks, but such is the 1st gen TL. One of the weakest links.......

MILKILOS

Mandy did they tell you what mechanism was making them pop out???

Mandy

No, they said the handle mechanism (means area where a linkage is attached) broke and they had to replace the handle.

Cornflake

Sounds like the same problem I had with my first Integra. Same thing...never fixed it just traded it in for my second one like that.

Mikes96TL03CLS

ya the door handles on our cars seem cheap, it's like wtf....

DJK55

I had one fixed at my local shop and cost $200 which I thought was high.
Today another broke and I am surfing this site trying to find out how to fix it myself. How did you fix yours?

ljmushock

there are some tl door handles for sale on ebay. i would think you could just replace the whole thing... that might be the cheapest way