This doesn't sound like a problem with the handle.  If
it is a new handle, it should be tight.  It sounds
like the looseness you are encountering is in the door
release mechanism to which the door handle attaches.
You can either live with the wiggle or get into the
door to check out the mechanism.

Z

--- VWNut Hawk <vwnut@HAWKCOMPUTING.COM> wrote:
> I had to change a sliding door handle with a new
> one.
> It is fine.  It doesn't wiggle.  Hummm.  I think it
> was pretty
> easy.  It's been a while.
>
> >>> karen davis <yosemite333@HOTMAIL.COM> 6/11/2003
> 8:07:20 PM >>>
> My sliding door handle broke.  I replaced it with a
> new one.  How does
> one
> stop the sliding door handle from wiggling?
>
>
> My panel is very brittle so I don't want to pry it
> off.  Someone made a
> hole
> in my panel so I can tighten the phillips screw that
> holds the sliding
> door
> handle.  I've been trying to
> tighten that screw but no success with getting that
> handle so it
> doesn't
> wiggle.  IT works but feels loose.
>
>
> I assume this is a common problem.  Anyone have
> success in fixing so
> the
> handle is tight.  I don't want to pry off my panel
> since it's britle
> but I
> can reach the phillips screw through the hole that
> previous owner made
> in
> panel.
>
>
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