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Both door handles on the left hand side are perishing, and bits are falling off leaving a gap between the handle and the bodywork - can I fill this, or do I need to replace them?

Thanks, Tim.
 
Replace, about £20-25 each new from Fiat. Or £25 each you can get the marea HLX/ELX handles which are hard plastic and designed to be painted.
 
Cheers - Thanks a lot. Now the sodding rear windscreen wiper has packed up half way across the screen !... Ahh the joys of owning a car !
 
Mine packed in halfway across as well, but a few days later it seemed to fix itself, parked normally & worked fine.
I've had that type of intermmitent fault with other things on the car. The latest is the temp guage shows overheating (very top of scale) while driving but if I stop the engine the guage reads the correct temp in the centre of the guage.
Bloody Fiats.
 
regarding the temp gauge, when it does that give it a tap above where it is on the dash and it will go back to normal. its a dodgy connection/bad connection on the back of the dials I believe and it will sort it.
A few ppl have had this problem ;)

Dan
 
Lol, I now have all of the above! Ah well it clocked 99k this morn
 
Tom, is that £25 each from Fiat for the hard plastic ones?

If so, I might just have to pay my local Fiat parts department a visit.

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get me some whilst your there, dealers are a pain in the arse, you can't order a part over the phone, you have to go in, order it, then chase them for a week, then go and pick it up. and they onle open 9-5 mon-fri if that!!! grrr.
 
Tom - "Or £25 each you can get the marea HLX/ELX handles which are hard plastic and designed to be painted."

I guess so ;)

Daz
 
Goodo, I'll see if I can get them any cheaper from Ford :)

Was asking just to make sure cos there's not a lot in price difference between hard plastic and rubber - which kinda strikes me as odd.

Ta anyway :)

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You can also get them from Audi, they cost £200 each and are very dull. BMW can also supply bravo handles, they cost £400 and are very plasticy and will drop off within 6 months.
 
Or you can get them from homebase for a fiver each, made of plastic that looks like a cupboard handle all you need to attach it is a big screw
 
Never thought of that :)

I work at Homebase so I could get a staff discount too!

Wooo!

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Now there's an idea. Whilst I'm getting some pine handles I should deck out the lower part of the bodywork with some pine cladding for that typical 80's American Station-Wagon look.

Retro modding... see, it might take off?! lol

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