Inside Door Handle Please Advise
 

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.

Is the part the one in this pic, number 8 or 16?
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/diagrams/s/e/113.png

Number 8 (just to the left side of the bottom-left corner of the door in the pic) is OEM part number 51418408564 for the passenger side, $20.48 List price
Number 16 is 51418185805 for either side, discontinued part

image courtesy of realoem.com

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It's more like no. 9. The actual handle. It seems that the part where the cable attaches is broken and someone glued it together.

As I said before even that wasn't broken the cable doesn't seem to retract. I mean when you pull the handle I'm assuming the cable should be 'pulling' or retracting back, which it doesn't do.

Okay I get you now.

Number 9, passenger side is 51417122198 - $48.19 list
If it's the one with a light in it, part number 51417122200 - $75.35 list

I'm assuming from your earlier post that you already have the cable issue wrapped up. If not, post back and we'll keep digging.

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Does that website only get you part numbers or can you order there too?

As far the cable issue I wanted to see if someone could clarify if I need a whole new carrier. It seems it doesn't retract. Maybe that's normal or is it a sign that I need to replace it? Thanks

I can't answer the 2nd question, haven't been long in the X5 world, maybe one of our more experience members can help you with that.

As to the first question - I can't find a way to order from RealOEM, but there are a couple of forum vendors and other sites that allow you to place orders via the OEM Part Number. I'll refrain from mentioning them because I don't want to start a tiff with the moderators over mentioning a non-vendor over a vendor, or one vendor over another... Take a look at the vendor forum and you should be able to figure out who does order-by-part-number ;)

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Ok thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

Matt

Hey I found a great site www.bimmerspecialist.com they ship to canada without duty or brokerage fees.

I do have another question that I hope someone can help me with. They don't have illuminted door handles. They do have the regular ones. Can I use that instead? It says 'Not for vehicles with illuminated handles'. I'm wondering if they're different somehow other then the light part. Personally I couldn't care less if there is a light there. Hope someone can chime in. Thanks again.