My repro hatch adventure

[69-72]

You may have heard me previously *****ing on here about the quality of the aftermarket hatch I bought.

Well after a year of it sitting around and a few unanswered emails to Bowtiebits.com which I understand is the manufacturer of these fine pieces of crap I decided to take matters into my own hands and fix it myself seeing as how I am into it for almost $600. This is my story.


The main problem was that handle guts are no where near close to fitting into the hatch like they should.

Here are some comparison pictures with an original hatch