Door handle to carrier nut and bolt

[stephx5]

Hi cn90,

Thanks for the info. I should have been more clear. I have everything in place and its all ready to go but I cant put the handle back on because basically when I got to step 9 in the link you sent me:

9. Push the handle from the inside and remove the nut holding the handle to the carrier.

That nut was frozen onto the bolt and I ended up having to cut it off thinking I could easily replace this since its just a 8mm nut/bolt. Well unfortunately thats not the case.

The realOEM part number is 51368149242 I called a couple of large supply houses basically they dont have it and their story is BMW doesn't make it anymore. This is a real pitfall to this repair if you cant get that nut/bolt separated its not easy to obtain. I was wondering if anyone else may have faced this same issue and how they got around it. I'll try to post a picture to make it more clear.​

This is what it looks like on the realOEM schematics: