bought some aftermarket door handles for my 1200 coupe and they dont seem to fit into the two square holes it is like the pins that hold handles together are to thick has anyone else had this problem. i could file down the pin but there would be nothing left and i dont want to cut into the doors.

Do mean aftermarket or non-Nissan replacement parts?

If aftermarket, please post photos so we can see what you mean.

non genuine replacement handles

These square holes?

yep the handles dont fit in the holes, the heads on end of pins to thick

doenst sound like you have much chice, i guess it would be near impossible to reassemble with pin once the handle is in the door too yeah?

I had the same exact problem with an non-geniune brand new ebay handle. I wound up bending the square holes a little to get the thing to fit in there. I got it in but it never really performed the same way as the old handle so I wound up ditching it for a used second hand genuine handle.

you can buy new ones from Nissan for pretty cheap, I got new ones on mine earlier this year. Wiki should have the part #'s.

Yeah those reproduction ones are rubbish i got a set with me ute and ended up ditching them to many mods to fit them.

ok well will ring nissan tomoz and hopefully they have them got the part number of wik.fingers crossed they still have them if not who has immac door handles they dont really want to part with but for the right price iwill buy them