Re-fitting Exterior Door Handles

[Roy B]

I am trying to work out a few problems with my 2002 Galaxy, One is that I am trying to swap the front door handles over as the drivers one a part has broken off so when you pull the exterior door handle it wont open. I have got them both off but I am having trouble getting them back on again.

 

The part that goes around the door opener so that when you pull the handle it pulls on a metal bar and opens the door, I cannot get this part to go around the bar so the handle just pulls and nothing happens.

 

I hope I have explained this OK. Any help to fit these handles back on would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

Roy

[pozzywozzy]

Hook a bit of string around the metal finger before you try to put the handle back. Then put the heel of the handle into the door and half put in the front of the handle. Then use the string to pull the metal finger towards you and to the front of the car. If you have loosened the adjustment screw, there should be enough play to get the metal finger into the hook on the handle. Once it's there, pull the string away and push the handle in all the way. A bit fiddly, but thats the way I did it on mine. After paying