Do you own an older car on which the outer door handles are difficult to use or don't work at all? If so, I have the fix for you. My '86 VW Golf's driver’s door handle broke one morning as I was attempting to go to work. It has the old VW trigger style door handles that have a reputation for failing over time. Call me cheap or whatever you'd like, but since I paid $800 for this car I'm certainly not going to pay the ridiculous prices charged for a replacement door handle. Instead I chose to put my inventive mind to work and created a fix that cost me nothing but a bit of embarrassment when people see it. Knowing that I had some speaker cable that once went to the stereo on the CJ (the stereo had been stolen a year or so before I bought the Jeep) in the garage, I figured that I could finally find a good use for it. I tied one end to the grab handle on the inside of the
driver’s door, and the other to the interior and still operational door handle. Now when I get out of the car I simply hold on to the wire loop and shut it in the door. To get in I jut pull on the loop. Problem solved and it didn’t cost me a penny.
1 comment:
I wish this article was around in 1999. I had several issues with my vintage 88' cavalier. This re-engineered door handle might have given me the tools to improve my bitchin machine.
Post a Comment