As someone who's door handle recently broke (passenger side-whew!), I too will be ordering door handles shortly. But something that Wayne A. Ernst said got me to thinking. He said, "How many cars on the road today with brand new plastic handles will even be drivable 19 years from now?" Which in turn made me think about why the handles on the DeLorean are prone to failure. It's not a poor quality of plastic, nor is it a design flaw from the factory. It's the way we open our doors... When opening the doors, I have always lifted the entire door up by it's handle without using my thumb. A gentler way I've found now is to place my thumb on the crease of the door for leverage, and then pull the handle. Then using only enough pressure to hold the handle in place, I let the door rise slowly by itself untill the latches are clear of the striker pins. From here I can let go of the handle, and reach around to push the door up with my finger tips if I want the door to go up a little faster. Which when you think about it is the exact same way that you would normally open a traditional car door. Since the DeLorean was truly the only mass produced car with manual/mechanical gull wing doors, this is probably wasn't something that the factory could ever have forseen in 1981. For myself, I feel that the metal handles are not just an option, but an insurance policy of sorts. I always planed on getting the metal handles, but it turns out that my car wanted then sooner then I thought! :) Using this method should greatly reduce the amount of stress the plastic in the handles is exposed to. Just thought I'd share this with everyone who maybe concerned with accidently breaking thier door handles. -Robert vin 6585