99Sienna LE w/ power door locks.While hurrying to open the rear to grab something , I broke the handle.I had to remove the inner plastic door siding with the door closed to get to the darned thing!It turns out the black plastic handle has a plastic finger protruding into the opening mechanism- it depresses a lever w/c pulls a cable that opens the rear door.Asking other people with similar misfortune, I gather it almost always breaks in the same particular area:right where the finger joins the handle.So, for $60 per handle you get to repeat the entire vicious cycle.I put a stop to this:Bought a small piece of G.18 aluminum at a hobby supplies store.I get the broken piece then traced it on a piece of paper then trnsferred the pattern to the aluminum.I folded the aluminum in two to make it stronger then cut out the pattern with metal shears and added a base to the design for fixing it back to the handle w/ rivets
Worked like the factory design should be in the first place!