How many people have broken interior plastic door pulls on their
first gen RX? On both of my 1st gens I had broken door pulls.
I knew if I bought a new one it would break too.
Mazda had a real problem with plastic parts.

I finally figured out how to fix it. I hogged out the brittle
broken nylon out of the sucker and replaced it with a small piece
of 1/2 thick aluminum plate. I drilled and  tapped the edges of the
plate with 10-32 flat head screws and screwed the plastic door
pull to the alloy plate. I had to counter bore  the main screw
hole as the 1/2 inch thick plate made the main screw too short.

Works like a charm so far. Only took me about an hour to figure 
out how to do it and about two hours to make it. 
 
Paul Lamar
 
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