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21st September 2019, 15:35 | #1 |
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Passenger Front Door Locked - Will not unlock/open
Hopefully someone may be able to point me to a diagram re this as not having much luck.
Found plenty of threads on the issue and already tried car unlocked and remove battery with no success. Managed to start to peel top of the door card away from door, and can now see the hole where the interior door handle cable goes into the door, but not having any luck unlocking the door in the depths within the door. Does anyone have a diagram (or can link me to one), so I can get an idea of what I'm looking at behind the metal skin, so have an idea of where I need to pull. Cheers Dave
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21st September 2019, 17:45 | #2 |
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If you got inside the door your almost there. Get your arm in and toward the B pillar half way down you will feel the door lock actuator, on that toward the outer door skin is what your after, the metal latch with a plastic block attached. If you push that downward your door should then open.
Good luck. Lee.
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Will have a go tomorrow.
Cheers Just get ready for the story in Monday's paper about the bloke who got his arm stuck in the car door
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03:00 in the morning and lying here thinking about the car. (actually more old age and having just gone to the loo :-)
Can I access the latch with the window down, or does the glass block access to the latch? Was planning on leaning in via passenger window, but just thought that may have been reason why was having issues yesterday. Cheers
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You will need to climb across the drivers seat I'm afraid, window glass will obstruct you if it's down. And once the door is open, you get to investigate and repair the cause. Mabey even source some parts. There are a few threads on this issue here and a Haynes manual has it's uses beyond a sill protector for jacking the car up.
Good luck. Lee.
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Does the inner or outer door handle feel connected to any part of the mechanisms ? or are they redundantly floppy in operation ?
The "Door Locked" button on the top of the inner door finisher is showing what position ? This will allow you to know what exercise will be required to open the door with info shown below. The reason for asking is that the inner door handle cable may have snapped it's weak hook ! This can easily be ascertained by removing the inner handle screw cap, and screw, the handle gets pulled in the conventional fashion with slightly more force, and it will come off in your hand. Then you will see if the cable is connected or not. If not connected/broken hook, you will be able to pull the outer cable away and pull the wire with pliers or grips. Assuming the cable is connected at the door mechanism you should now have a door that opens beit in an unconventional fashion. If the door still refuses to open it would appear that the cable has parted company from the mechanism housing, and the mechanical push rod clip has lost it's grip to the dog-leg that attaches to the exterior handle. The push-rod can be accessed from the interior door handle aperture using various tools to tickle the the rod in a downwards fashion. I will say "It's not easy as such" but can be done with time and patience. Good luck, and let us know what you find, and how you managed it in the end. This happened to my MGZT190 on the drivers door, the inner handle cable was not correctly fitted to the mechanism housing, so was a lottery chance if the door would open from inside or not! All sorted out with a bit of swearing and a few tools ! |
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