I am the original owner of a 1993 toyota corolla. The insided door handle broke on me around 1997, and again a about a year later. The handle just broke in half. I did not report this at the time, because I did not know this webpage existed. After reading all the other complaints you would think that toyota would step up to the plate and admit they made defective door handles on their cars. What is worst yet, was that a person could be trapped in their car, and not get out if they were in a crash or if something happened. I thought toyota cared about its customers. You would think the federal safety agency would have seen all the service complaints on this issue and made toyota fix the door handles.
1993 Toyota Corolla: doors won't lock, open or latch
10 of the 130 complaints about the 1993 Toyota Corolla describe doors won't lock, open or latch.
- owner complaints
- 10
- of this car's complaints
- 8%
- recalls
- 0
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
Doors won't lock, open or latch by model year
What owners say
In the past year and a half I have had three handles break on my 1993 corolla. One handle just has a hole in the plastic, but two others actually broke off rendering the doors inoperable. The first incident occurred about a year ago. The right rear handle just fell off in my niece's hand when she attempted to open the door. Because the door must be taken apart to replace the plastic handle, I've been told that the cost for the repair is approx. $250.00. The second incident occured only a month or two later. The inside driver's handle broke off as I attempted to get out of the car. This was about a $75.00 repair that I had to make immediately. It scares me tho think of being trapped in the car with a broken door handle. I have yet to fix the right rear handle because of the excessive cost . Something has to be wrong with the plastic they used. No one I know has ever had a problem like this.
3 inside door handles broke on my 93 toyota corolla. Happened at about the same time. Both front handles and rt rear door handle. Very strange.brought to haley toyota and cost about 189.00 to fix. Shouldn't this have been paid for by the manufacturer??? Are there any recalls on these door handles?? We are not rough on the handles.... Can't believe that this is normal wear!! Please advise....was brought to haley toyota in richmond, va and fixed on 12/23/99 for $188.11.
Two inside front door handles failed.
Front door handles broke.
The inside plastic frame holding door latch brok, preventing passenger's from exiting vehicle.
The driver's side inside door handle broke .*ak as consumer pulled the lever to open the door on the driver's side she heard a snapping sound and realized that the frame around the lever had cracked, consumer states she was told this happens often, and that plastic from which it is made is weak.
Inside door handles made of plastic, causing them to break from normal usage.
Plastic part behind l-shaped door handles on both front doors snapped/cracked trapping occupants inside; have to open door from outside or crawl over to rear.
Interior drivers side and passenger side door handles have broken off. Tt
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
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Is doors won't lock, open or latch a common problem on the 1993 Toyota Corolla?
10 of 130 owner complaints about the 1993 Toyota Corolla (8%) mention doors won't lock, open or latch. The model year with the most reports is 1991.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 1993 Toyota Corolla?
There is no recall or service bulletin for this area of the car on record.
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