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Well then I’m confused, because aside from my 2 front left/right NOS handles that part numbers are confirmed fitment for my regular cab, I also got a 3rd handle that has a hole for lock. Looking it up GM 15725921 on gmpartsgiant.com confirms it as a rear handle for TahoeSuburban and it has a key hole. Weird, cause even the little sketch appears to have key hole drawn.
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Disregard the part number on plastic piece in photo, the 15725921 is under the plastic part.
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It’s not miss worded. I misread its meaning. It is for the rear door. I mistakenly interpreted it as a rear passenger door. Reading through post already showed I came to the correct conclusion.That's misworded.
That is for the barn door.
95-99 handles are pot metal and every single one of them will crack eventually. You can identify them because they are textured.Pot metal.
Opening the hood from outside on a GMT400 is fairly trivial even when the release cable has broken. I've done it.. and it took me all of a couple minutes to work out.Yeah, it would be more difficult, but if handles were “blanks’ and battery goes dead, now you can’t even open you hood. In the end, there’s a workaround for every scenario I guess. Like smashing glass.
Thieves go in by damaging the handle and door sheetmetal. With the handle out of the way, the rods and clips are irrelevant. For sure if you care about not damaging your truck, it can be tricky to mess around inside the door to unlock it. Unless you have a basic lockout kit that a wrecker driver might carry. I don't like "inside the door" tools for the reason you mentioned, and others, but going through the door to unlock is pretty easy on most vehicles. Or as I'd done a few times when the battery croaked on my '94, to reach through and pop the hood (unrelated to my other comment about popping the hood from outside.)Last time I tried that on my truck I only managed to disconnect the handle from the latch, unfortunately. Locked or not, no one is opening that door from the outside.
All GMT400 (OEM) exterior door handles are pot metal, and all of them will potentially crack. I've seen more than a few of the early smooth handles crack, but as I mentioned before, far more of the newer ones. The smooth handles that I've seen broken were usually on very high mileage/abused work trucks.95-99 handles are pot metal and every single one of them will crack eventually. You can identify them because they are textured.
88-94 handles are smooth. They won't crack. Retrofitting them is an easy task. You'll have to rotate the newer cylinder to fit into the older style handles and take the pawls on the back off and flip them. I put 92 handles in my 96. I wasn't going to buy another set of pot metal handles only to have them crack again.
Thieves go in by damaging the handle and door sheetmetal. With the handle out of the way, the rods and clips are irrelevant.
For sure if you care about not damaging your truck, it can be tricky to mess around inside the door to unlock it. Unless you have a basic lockout kit that a wrecker driver might carry. I don't like "inside the door" tools for the reason you mentioned, and others, but going through the door to unlock is pretty easy on most vehicles.
Mines not broken, and I’d prefer to not break it, especially if I’m not carrying tools. My key or key fob just works better.Opening the hood from outside on a GMT400 is fairly trivial even when the release cable has broken.