With no previous expereince, it took me about an hour and a half to replace mine with marea handles.
i have front marea handles on my car which man there is a lock mechenism.
correct me if im wrong but because there is no key barrel in a rear handle if you where to go for the de-locked look you would only need to connect the opening rod?
if this is correct it makes the job 100 times easier!
i too have a set of rear marea handles but may be de-locking my car in the future so i'll hang on to them!