bloody chinese spec handles. HELP

[Agreeable Slick]

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=21654.0

getting right on  my tittties now. So much so that i cannot spell tittiees. See.

[dirtmans]

i have heard a lot of people moaning about these, mine are a load of sh!te too, they dont sit flush to the door and the handle does not spring back properly without a helping hand, mine were from mr rabbity on ebay who also sent the front ones ( with lock holes) when i ordered rears. im thinkin of gettin porsche ones instead now, does anyone know where you can get chrome porsche 924/944 ones from?

[Deefadog]

I am going to be doing mine on Saturday! I bought them 8 months ago and never got around to doing them.

Thing is i have lost the instructions!

I should be able to work it out, but can you list down what i have to do, i can then see if i have the same problems as you and help each other out!

[Agreeable Slick]

take out metal strip on door handle, remove screw from front.
Open door and above the lock there is another screw, take this out and the door handle is released.

Remove door handle, and barrel put into chinese spec ones, slide into door and reassemble as taken apart.

Thats as far as i got as they just stop working once screwed in fully. 

[Deefadog]

Cheers, i got the ones with no barrel

Do i have to take the door card out to attach the locking mechansim?

Also i did read about your problem somewhere else and using washers to adjust something worked for them!?? Make any sense?

[Agreeable Slick]

you don't have to take the door card off but it does make it a little easier. I read about the washers but i got so annoyed last time that i haven't even looked at the handles since. 

[Deefadog]

 

Sod it, i am going to have a go tonight

which rod goes in to the handle is it the one that goes horizontal? i can't remember now!

I'll let you know! I have a feeling i am going to be swearing tonight 

[Deefadog]

OK, nearly their

Did you have to swap over the leaver inside to the one from the original?, you know know out the split pin and swap, as the one in it does not touch the lever inside - i think it's for a MK3 as it has a screw on it with white plastic tip!

[Deefadog]

Right then, these stupid, bl00dy things, i am going smash them in to little pieces!!!!!!

I had to make a small bracket up to allow the arm to push down on the inside lever, after about an hour of fafing around, it worked, but it must have been touching the door lock lever and the door would not lock!!

secondly the screw supplied did not fit the thread, it was a different grade!, but the original one worked, 2 thick washers on the outside did hold it, but it was still a bit tight and the grommets don't fit too well either!

I some help on this, was there a bracket supplied that i did not get?

[PassRatGT]

Passat's have those kinda handles on them would they not fit the mk 2 or would there be the same trouble cos those chinese spec handles are a VAG product aren't they?