Thread: now falling door handle parts?

As my wife retrieved something through the passenger's side rear doorway today, the little shield-shaped plastic escutcheon(?) at the end of the door handle fell off & to the ground. On inspection it's obvious that the retainer tab at the wide end of the escutcheon has disintegrated/broken off! This is ridiculous, especially since the rear doors probably have fewer than 200 open/shut cycles on each of them... most of those by me in association with washing & cleaning activities. Not an impact mark, scratch, crack, or even bird poop on the exterior of that escutcheon! WTH?

This 2007 Azera has about 44K miles right now; is this kind of breakage still under the 10year/100,000 mile warranty?

The driver door's electric lock/unlock mechanism has started working only intermittently. Engine/trans hesitation is as bad as ever ('learning curve', yeah... right). Left rear door seal retainer was 'replaced' by dealer, only to have the right rear door's upper seal retainer mysteriously 'missing' next time I opened that door! After one warranty replacement, the electric rear sunshade has died again, too. Based on what I've read, regarding all the factory replacement struts being toast within a few K-miles, I've totally given up on the suspension quirks until Monroe, Gabriel, Bilstein, KYB, or some aftermarket group has decent units to swap in place of the Mumbai Misfits Hyundai insists on using. That may be before or after the Michelins get replaced with better tires; wife will just have to keep it under 130mph; no more V, W, Y, or Z-rated tires for this Azera, speedometer markings be damned!

Oh, the paint is easily damaged by bird droppings; just won't buff out by hand, and I don't want to find out what color primer they used! The plastic chrome trim on the rear bumper is shriveling & wrinkling like a Hollywood diva's face with chronic tanning bed overdose. Dash has cracks; yeah, probably right around the passenger side air bag (makes one think that if the air bag IS ever deployed, it will probably shove the remains of the right half of the dashpad THROUGH the passenger's face first!). A/C now takes forever to get things cold; that seems typical of R134a seepage through cheap hi-pressure hoses. I'm working at fixing the underbody shield "aerodynamic" belly panels myself; we'll see how that goes(?).

Wonder what's going to break, bind up, fall off, fall apart or just stop functioning NEXT! We do like the car... well, except for a few things.

The basic warranty on the Azera is 5 years / 60,000 miles, so you should be covered bumper to bumper.

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