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Dear Mike,
Good a.m. and may this find you well. I have next to me, what I believe is a 960 driver's door handle (came with 940 handles). It is black. There is a space for a lock cylinder (missing, as is the black plastic lock bezel).
This handle appears to operate as follows:
(a) turn key to unlock
(b) to open the door, pull towards one's self, the handle section to the right of the lock
(c) release handle
(d) spring pulls handle back towards the door.
There is a small rotary coil spring, that appears to store the energy, needed to return the handle to its position, when the user releases the handle. The spring is anchored to the handle body at one end, and to a black plastic latch on the other hend.
There would seem to be two failure modes:
(a) the spring, or its pivot rod, breaks
(b) the black plastic latch tip breaks
If (a), a replacement spring will restore the handle to its former operation.
If (b) a new handle may be needed (it is not obvious, how to remove the black plastic latch from the mechanism).
Unless someone has been truly brutal, in their use of the handle, I doubt the black plastic latch has broken. More likely, the spring has broken.
On most cars, the driver's side handle gets more use than all the rest combined.
The rotary coil spring is the same as on the passenger door handles. The black plastic latch is fixed position on the passenger door handles, but rotates on the driver's door handle.
Hope this helps.
Yours faithfully,
spook
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