Broken door handle cable

[ukflyboy]

So I was putting the door cards back on following a renovation of the electric windows (which race up and down now quite nicely!) and the steal rod that hooks (awkwardly) onto the door mechanism broke.

Has anyone got any experience or advice for replacing this? Couldn't find anything detailed about the internal door mechanism in the 'bible'.

Quickly learning that life is never straight forward when working on TVRs!

[phillpot]

It's just a bit of bent wire.


Welding rod would do or model shops (if you can still find one) used to sell "piano wire" or I believe some have replaced it with flexible cable, cycle brake cable for example, using electrical "chock block" connectors to form a loop at either end

[mentall]

[quote=phillpot]It's just a bit of bent wire.

My RH door had already been 'fixed' with bent coat-hanger wire (and nothing else!).
LH door had been 'fixed' with Bowden cable inner and a choc-block connector.
Both worked perfectly!

[Deeman]

Yep - fixed mine about 2 weeks ago - it was bodged previously in there from times past, with a piece of picture hanging wire or such like and had snapped. Just a case of finding something suitably strong and that doesn't rust, to pull on the lever.

[greymrj]

Found it! The thread on this when I had this trouble. Nice to see that Car Builder Solutions include this tip in their catalogue now!
Still works perfectly.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[ukflyboy]

Cheers folks, a piece of coat hanger has done the job perfectly, feel a bit embarrassed I didn't think of that myself!