sebring door handle on 2001 Sebring

Chrysler 2001 Sebring. I took a car in for repair of a broken inside
door handle (handle intact, something broken inside the door itself).
The dealer told me I would have to replace the entire inner door
panel. For a nice round total of over $900. That seems on the
expensive side. The handle is still there and "springy". I could have
sworn I heard a "ting" sort of sound when it broke initially. I think
the repair is beyond me. I bought a special tool for popping out the
door panel divets/clips/whatever but the first one I tried broke right
in half and I gave up there, not wanting to cause further damage.
Anyone else here have experience with this?

On Jul 29, 7:22 pm, grossnet....TakeThisOut@gmail.com wrote:
> Chrysler 2001 Sebring. I took a car in for repair of a broken inside
> door handle (handle intact, something broken inside the door itself).
> The dealer told me I would have to replace the entire inner door
> panel. For a nice round total of over $900. That seems on the
> expensive side. The handle is still there and "springy". I could have
> sworn I heard a "ting" sort of sound when it broke initially. I think
> the repair is beyond me. I bought a special tool for popping out the
> door panel divets/clips/whatever but the first one I tried broke right
> in half and I gave up there, not wanting to cause further damage.
> Anyone else here have experience with this?

I forgot to mention that this is a 4 door sedan