rear door window latch broken

[Tundrav8yamaha]

question i've head a few people complain about the rear door window latch break well mine just broke on my tundra a few day's ago and i've only opened it less then 3 times since i've had this truck(geezzz how cheaply toyota went being made of a plastic resin)..

anybody know what it takes to fix this my dealership want's $100.00 to repair this (yea right)

http://www.tundrasolutions.com/photo.../cat/500/page/

[bearsfolks]

There should be a TSB on this, I know because I paid to have mine fixed, then found out later. If the TSB has expired, buy the latch from the dealer, go home and remove the trim screws from the inside of the afflicted door. Gently pull the trim out exposing the screws that hold the latch to the door. If you don't want to do it yourself, I went to a local auto glass shop and they charged me $10 for the 15 minutes of labor it took them to do it.

[JeffD]

Hey - How did you get a picture of my broken window? I have also only opened mine a few times, and got surprised the time I went to open it on the highway and it swung way out. I was surprised it didn't fall off. I was thinking about trying to epoxy it back together, but I just latched it and forgot it. I don't open it anymore.

[DJJ]

Mine broke some time ago also. I paid $28 for the part from the dealership and fixed it myself. Simple fix.

-DJJ

[JeffD]

$28 is not bad, I can probably swing that. I figured it would be ridiculously overpriced.

[Spencer]

Cheap materials sometimes lead to expensive consequences. Especially if someone has a pocket torch, some pry tools and an itch to get inside your truck. Sprong! Open window! In that order...

I paid $36 to replace the window hinge and I'm still trying to recover from my girlfriend's camera being jacked and my niffy North Face jacket.... sigh. Tell you what... don't park your vehicle in an underground parking structure when you go on holiday... put it in a visible area with lots of ped-traffic.

[EcHo]

Originally Posted by Spencer

Cheap materials sometimes lead to expensive consequences. Especially if someone has a pocket torch, some pry tools and an itch to get inside your truck. Sprong! Open window! In that order...

Makes me wonder why so many trucks are broken into by means of the breaking the window/door handle..................man so many of these thiefs are stupid

[tundra39]

I joined the rear window "broken latch club" a couple of weeks ago. Took it to the dealership body shop to fix & was $57.86.Guess that wasn't to bad considering they said it has replacement warranty for 1 year.That was passenger side , so now can wait for other side to break!!

Tundra39

[anamouse]

Like many of you I had both my original latches replaced under warranty despite the fact that I rarely opened those windows, becase the cheap plastic link cracked, and the replacement links started cracking in the same place a year later.

I am very disappointed to learn that they haven't improved the parts, and that they only sell them as part of a very expensive latch assemble. Shame on Toyota.

Not about to spend the money for new ones, I got some small pieces of aluminum and made a pair of replacement ones that should never break. I used the broken ones as a guide and used a die grinder with a carbide bit to do the final shaping. They look and work just like the original ones, and only look different becase I left them bright aluminum instead of painting them black.

Final cost to me, about 1/2 hour of my time, and $0.50 cents worth of aluminum.