Door handle carriers-a pain

[talljames]

Just had to replace my left front door handle carrier again. It is a pain. The plastic hard inner trim piece plastic welded to the top of the door card came apart. This happened on the right side and I ended up gluing it back on. Didn't bother this time. Waiting on a new handle as the existing one has little tabs that holds the handle in which have worn off. Put ever thing back together and all most cried as I left a little torch inside bottom of the door so I had to take it apart again. In the process broke off a trim clip housing and the small led housing that shows a light to the inside opening handle. I originally purchased a replica carrier for it and that didn't work well. Never again.

Anyway, to post what I wanted to originally say: I own a 2005 E53 4.4i and I was wondering what year did they fix the carrier issue where you have to replace it after a number of years. I believe it is still an issue with the E70. Does anyone know? Might impact on the next bmw I purchase.

cheers