What year of car do you get the handles off? I have the same problem, how are the handles different which makes them better? And is it a straight swap?

In a nutshell the olders handles were made better and it's a straight swap.
The top spec civic (known as MB6 civic)all came with rear electric windows,
these are regularly being broken on Honda forums for mainly the running gear.
I picked up both complete rear doors and front handles for very cheap.
search ebay "breaking mb6" brings up 12 results.


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Repairing the handles properly makes them a lot stronger.

My 1st passenger front door handle burst about 3 years ago, at the time it was easier to replaced with a colour coded item, but tonight, my car received a complement today on good it looks etc etc and as that person opened the passenger front door the handle pulled away from the door!!