Inside Door Handle Please Advise

[felcom81]

Hey guys I'm new to the forum. Just got my X5 a couple months ago. Couple days ago my passenger side door handle stopped working. The outside one opens the door ok but the inside one sort of flops around. I have done some reading on this forum and seems that every repair described deals with the outer handle braking. I took the door apart thinking that something came loose maybe. I noticed that it was already fixed once by someone with some sort of a glue. What happened is the actual interior handle assembly is broken. The part where the cable attaches was snapped and glued together.

I also noticed that the cable doesn't retract. I maneged to reglue the plastic piece but the cable doesn't seem to have any tension. Does that mean the carrier is done also. I can find carriers online fairly cheap and there are some great write ups here to replace them. Not sure about the interior handle though. I can't find one anywhere. I guess I'll try calling BMW and see how much they want for this little piece of plastic.

Any advice would be appreciated. I guess the only thing I'm not sure about is if I need a new carrier. Since mine doens't seem to retract anymore. Or maybe that's normal and I'm missing a way to apply tension to the line somehow. Thanks in advance.