Handle of window crank

[karlusmagnus]

The round handle of my window crank is broken, so I looked on ebay for a replacement, but all I saw for sale were the entire handles, and not the plastic round piece on its own.
Where do people get these? Are they a VW common part as well? I was hoping it would be a cheap plastic part, and not a $10 piece + $40 shipping deal.

[304065]

Karl, a brief tour of The Samba reveals that the fow-vay part has concentric circles, like the theater at Epidaurus. The same site offers an abundance of Porsche cranks of various types without the Porsche tax (shhh!)

[blucille]

Karl,

mine fell off during the red rally, at the way up hurricane mountain, at the top of the pass, I was able to reattach it....pretty sure I have some extras if you want to come by and grab one.....

LE

[Reza]

this was the window crank rally. mine shredded a chunk of plastic on Thursday morning. but i re-attached the knob and it worked. in the meantime I got a spare donated by Santa.

[304065]

You guys don't know your own strength.

And the brutal thing is, I just KNOW I have a pair of those handles, they were on '065 (incorrectly) when I acquired her.

The problem is, they sit somewhere among approximately 5,000 parts I have been collecting over the last decade and I could probably produce them around July 4th with the aid of a spelunking helmet.

[Alan.uk]

Just in case it helps you can still buy the whole winder handle new from Porsche. I bought 4 last week.

Thanks

Alan

[classic]

http://www.sierramadrecollection.com...istIds=&venID=

You can get the knob replacement, although I see they have a special on the entire handle for $19.00. Haven't seen just the knob from anyone else.

A little expensive but hope it helps. I replaced the knob on both of mine as they were about to break, and very happy.

[naparsei]

/rant It's not just the black knob. It's how they mount that sucks also. I will bet more than 25% of these carve a circle in the door panel. Given the overall engineering excellence of the car, you wonder why some bits just aren't reliable /rant

[karlusmagnus]

/rant It's not just the black knob. It's how they mount that sucks also. I will bet more than 25% of these carve a circle in the door panel. Given the overall engineering excellence of the car, you wonder why some bits just aren't reliable /rant

io ranto / se hablo ranto / je rant aussi / ich bin ranter .....
I agree ... its a pretty crap knob ... but whaddya gonna do?
Thanks for offer Lewis, and info from John, Reza and everyone else. I am edumecated a lot more now, on the finer points of cranks :-)

[edmayo]

The knob is attached via some kind of rivet peened over. I think Perf. Prod. used to sell a replacement knob that I believe was reattached with a screw of some sort. I've always made a habit of not really using just the knob, but rather always use the whole end of the crank arm for just the reasons we're seeing here, it is fragile!