Printable View
Hi all.
I'm looking for a couple of parts for my car - specifically, the outer door handle plastic, and an interior 'spoon'.
The plastic on mine is broken, and the spoon is missing. Anyone have either or both spare?
Also - can the plastic surround be replaced, or does the whole assembly have to be swapped out?
Thanks,
Justin.
Attachment 21900
Attachment 21901
Good find/price on the spoon. Gerry at Hawk Cars makes the whole assembly but no idea on price.
The outer door handle chrome looks to be in very good condition, I'd be tempted to swap the parts out into a replacement door handle. It is possible to punch out the two (I think) pins that the hand pivots on to dismantle them, best done with a donor handle so you know what you're doing. Just make sure that the replacement plastic has it's three securing studs intact. I'm sure someone on here will have a spare lying around.
Guy
The outer door handles are available from a German co. called Bielestein - I think they re-manufacture them (that's where I got mine ) They are in Chrome or black.
Black ones are available on E-bay for 80 quid - just type in "Fiat X19 door handles". Never done this before - but this QR code should take you to the right page :
Attachment 21902
You can disassemble the handles to swop the plastics and do a general refurbishment.
Look at Karnevil's build thread. Post 282.
I knew I'd seen someone do that somewhere John...Quote:
Originally Posted by john
Door handle strip down here
At the risk of a small thread hijack, has anyone come up with an alternative handle to use with the spoons?
I have spoons but no handles.
The challenge is finding a handle that will fit through the narrow gap in the spoon. Lada handles from Niva?/Riva? are quite close to the look but too wide for the gap in the spoon. Some handles fitted to 70s Fiats will fit through the hole but IIRC were more of hoop shape. I did get quite a long way with this and then a pair of 850 handles popped up so project was abandoned. that said there is a pair on ebay at the moment 71 FIAT 850 DOOR HANDLE INSIDE RH SPIDER CONVERTIBLE VINTAGE OLD 1 9375 | eBay, and 71 FIAT 850 CONVERTIBLE SPIDER DOOR HANDLE INSIDE DRIVERS OLD VINTAGE 9389 | eBay
.... Ok so that two pairs
Or just buy a full set from Gerry?
Easy enough to disassemble and restore
Attachment 21903
Attachment 21904
John,Quote:
Originally Posted by john
Mick Worrall had Fiat 500 handles with 850 Spider spoons:
Post 29 on Mick's Hawk build thread here
Justin, I have a spare door handle assembly in storage which I stripped with the aim of trying to repair the corroded horizontal ridges on the lever part but I got bored with that ! PM me if interested.