Do you have a Saturn Sky or Pontiac Solstice exterior door handle that needs replacement? The good news is that new replacement door handles are available through GM parts and this video will show you step by step how to open the door panel and replace the door handle.
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I just changed mine & this was very helpful. Thanks so much for making it. The handle bolts on mine actually had some of the black sticky sealer – probably from the plastic liner inside the door – on the bolt heads. That made them stick inside the socket when I was both removing and reinstalling them.
Good vid. This was the second replacement I've done for others. Knowing it's flaw, I used JB Weld 5 minute 2 part epoxy. Mixed a one inch diameter amount with plastic spoon using the handle end. Using the handle end of the spoon, scrape up a nickle sized amount and carefully position it over the opening in the handle between the two threaded bosses and let it run down into that cavity of the handle.
Repeat that in the smaller areas in dime size amounts being careful not to drizzle any into the threaded bosses. The first one replaced on a Sky was in 2011 and still going good after 41k miles. Today's replacement on a Solstice had its original handle at 67K miles. I agree that the gussets are inadequate and could have been beefed up when the tooling was made to manufacture these replacement parts.
Great tip on the socket magnets