Girlfriend's '97 Park Avenue needs a new outer door handle on the driver's door. I was just going to change it, when she said she was told at a local shop that they were a real hassle to change. I have changed quite a few car door handles in the past and have never encountered one that was much harder than any others to do. A new one from GM is $95, while a junkyard one is $15. I thought I would rob the handle off of the rear door of a junker since it likely hasn't had nearly as much use as the driver's door handle, and they are usually interchangeable. Then the owner of the yard told me that the front and rear door handles are NOT interchangeable on those cars -- but the left and right ones are! (which we both thought was kind of wierd) So that kind of threw me for a loop, plus someone commenting that they were really hard to change... so I thought I would throw this out to you guys: Anyone changed the door handles on one of these and ran into any problems, like needing some special tool or something -- like to get the inner door panel off? Or is it just like any other car? If I go to do this, I want to make short work of it . TIA
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15 years ago