Ok, I've got a new one. After I had speakers mounted to the kick panels in my car, the trunk was unable to open because the speaker was in the way of the handle. The fix for this by the guy who installed the speakers was to loosen the handle so I could "bend" the handle out far enought to clear the speaker. Long story short, the stress placed onto the cable from this, and from when the handle kept falling off snapped the cable right @ the handle. So my question is this: Does any one here have any ideas as to 1. Extend the bolt out a little farther. or 2. Know of an assembly from another vehicle that I could use on the D. In other words, something that will stay above the box that I would pull straight back on rather then being connected to a handle that hangs. Sort of like a choke cable. -Robert vin 6585