What are the door handles made out of?
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Originally Posted by Risk
I bet all you guys look pretty goofy doing "continuity tests" on forkin door handles! 
Edit: Oh, and by the way, my vote is for metal.
Edit: Oh, and by the way, my vote is for metal.
I did my test while the car was in tha garage. All my neighbors would need to see is me putting a meter to my door handles. Bad enough when my wife saw me head to the garage with the meter, cocked her head and gave me the "what the F$%& is he up to now" look.
Anyway... ya' all have fun out there...
That's what I was thinking!
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Wait a minute, I just made a very interesting discovery. Now I do not know what everyone else has a a build date, but mine was July 04. It turns out that the covering on the handles is in fact metal. With a little closer examination I found a seam in the metal on the rear edge of the handle. Being the inquizative dude that I am I began to pick at the seam. I was able to pull back the metal coating, only to discover that the handles are in fact chocolate. That is correct, chocolate handles covered in a tin wrapper. BTW they are very good. My wife and I ate one, but she insisted that we save the passenger side handle so as not to ruin our dinner.
Please let this thread die before links to it start showing up on other forums. How stupid would we all look? It's like the thread here about the people on the srt forum putting panty hose on their tail-lights to smoke them. It ended up all over the net.
Plastic, Aluminum, Alloy, steel. chocolate or paper Mache'
They are tough enough to withstand someone taking a crow bar to my passenger side to get in (unsucessfully) pry and beat them off the vehicle with only 2 very small dimples on the edge, while peeling the outer doorskin off allong with the various rods connected to the handle!!
Asuming we are talking about the outside handle.
They are tough enough to withstand someone taking a crow bar to my passenger side to get in (unsucessfully) pry and beat them off the vehicle with only 2 very small dimples on the edge, while peeling the outer doorskin off allong with the various rods connected to the handle!!
Asuming we are talking about the outside handle.
Originally Posted by rolling
Plastic, Aluminum, Alloy, steel. chocolate or paper Mache'
They are tough enough to withstand someone taking a crow bar to my passenger side to get in (unsucessfully) pry and beat them off the vehicle with only 2 very small dimples on the edge, while peeling the outer doorskin off allong with the various rods connected to the handle!!
Asuming we are talking about the outside handle.
They are tough enough to withstand someone taking a crow bar to my passenger side to get in (unsucessfully) pry and beat them off the vehicle with only 2 very small dimples on the edge, while peeling the outer doorskin off allong with the various rods connected to the handle!!
Asuming we are talking about the outside handle.
that sucks! So you have a broken handle to test! Get out the lighter! LOL
EXACTY but this happend like 3 mos ago, and the body shop tossed them
but i can tel you from the heavey feel im leaning toward the aluminum alloy outter portion with the handle itself , the part that moves out beiing plactic.
im really suprised a nissan parts dealer wouldnt know this.. hehe
but i can tel you from the heavey feel im leaning toward the aluminum alloy outter portion with the handle itself , the part that moves out beiing plactic.im really suprised a nissan parts dealer wouldnt know this.. hehe
