Looky look at what the postman dropped off!

"I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker" (qaaaaa) 01/09/2019 at 14:50 • Filed to: None

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TWO new door handles! No junkyard parts! Seems a bit fancy for my car. The keys don’t match any other lock on the car, nor do they match each other, but the door with the broken lock already has a key that doesn’t match anything else. I’m not going to swap the lock cylinders around either. Only thing you have to do it take out a torx screw,

Then out with the old...

And in with the new.

Pop the screw back in and it’s good to go.

It’s seated a little funny on the door, but I think it’ll break in. I’m going to pull the door card off just to make sure everything’s seated properly internally and get a few more old lock parts that fell off inside, but it should be good to go for a while now. I like having an easy victory over this car’s weirdness. Plus, now I have a matched lock and key I can probably put on the hatch so I can open that without having to go into the car.

Handles were from 1A Auto, who also had this very easy to follow video. Total time from opening the box to posting this was about 45 minutes.

punkgoose17 > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 01/09/2019 at 14:54

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Victory!

vicali > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 01/09/2019 at 15:16

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Easiest way to re-key is to pull the core directly from the old handle. If that isn’t possible you can swap the blades in the new core - just watch those little springs when you take them out. Otherwise you can make it work by moving the blades around to fit the old key.

https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?3496179

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > vicali 01/09/2019 at 15:28

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Sure. When I bought the car, the seller told me I could just grab a bunch of junkyard cylinders and swap blades to have my locks match. That's some serious penny pinching and not super worth it IMO. 

vicali > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 01/09/2019 at 15:38

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Once you figure it out it’s really easy.

I’m a slim keychain guy.. any and all methods to avoid this;

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > vicali 01/09/2019 at 15:39

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Lord. Right now mine is 4 keys. One for driver's door, one for ignition/passenger's door, one key to my house, one key to my mom's house. Not too bad.