Toyota Repair: Toyota Sienna 1998, fastening clips, 10mm nuts


Question
How do you replace a broken handle on the exterior slider door (driver's side) of
a 1998 Toyota Sienna XLE (power door locks). This handle has broken 3 times!
and I'm tired of paying $200 to fix it each time!

Answer
The reason it's so expensive is that it involves quite bit of work, the sliding door panel has to be removed, the handle is bolted on by two 10mm nuts and there are control rods that have to be removed, it's not all that hard, it's just time consuming, to remove the door panel remove the cover around the inner door handle, there may be some screws under the cover, it just pulls off, once the cover is off the door panel can be pried off, it's just held on by some fastening clips.