How does a 1999 GMC Suburban front exterior door handle crack or break?
It’s made out of a cheap pot metal. Some people tend to let the handle “snap” back to it’s resting position after they open the door. That snap can, over time, cause some metal fatigue in the cheap metal used in those handles and they will break. To reduce the chance of that happening again, after pulling the handle to open the door keep your fingers behind the handle and slowly allow the handle to return to it’s normal, resting position.