bmyles

Looks like 80606 on that site.

Z_fighter

this has happened to me as well, my door does not open from inside and out. i am getting really frustrated ,is there a way to open the door at least? and i really dont want to take it to the dealer . because after that i probably wont have an arm and a leg.

pprii

I also struggled about half a year ago with my drivers side door. When it was cold outside, the door didn't open neither from the outside nor from the inside. I was even planning to tear door panel. A funny thing that i noticed, was that the inner locker didn't move so far as the passenger side one.
How did I get my door open?
In this post you can see, how the door handel is mounted https://my350z.com/forum/9546573-post4.html
I tore apart the inner window seal from the door panel. From inside of the car I managed to pull "metal wire" upwards (shown on the fourth picture) with a little hook. After that I first opened the door lock and then the door also opened from the handle.
It was caused by a broken door handle (inside there is a little spring that helps to move this "metal wire" - the spirng was broken).

Z33Garage

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My driver side handle stopped working on me this weekend. The inside works just fine. I did notice that if you open the door and with a key or something move the locking mechanism back ( like if you closed the door, but in this case the door is open) and try to open it, there is a little plastic lip that moves under the latch ( int the same manner that to a ar15 disconnector works). If I try to actuate the outside handle it moves just a tiny bit, then when I actuate the inside door handle, it travels much more, thus opening the door. I am guessing that there is a connector that must be worn or broken and must need to be replaced since the handle still mechanically functions, just not 100%.

Will take a video of my work when I take it all apart next weekend!

Ailbe

The outside door handles just stopped working for me as well. Passenger side stopped working last week, yesterday drivers side stopped working. I'm not generally a very mechanically inclined person but there are some videos on YouTube for this I guess I can try out.

FYI part #s are:
80606-CD00B for the passenger side door handle
80607-CD40B for the driver side door handle

DIY from my350z.com

Parts are on their way. Wish me luck!

graham0599

Will the earlier door handle work on an 2008?

Riff

Yep, same thing is happening to me right now. I'm not even going to mess around with it. I'm just going to get another handle. My gross assumption: years of expansion and contraction on a plastic component. But still, that's kind of wack.