Dreaded super locked door

[BoroRover]

Starting the car up after a hard frost yesterday, the door open light came on. It wasn't an open door of course. Just an icy switch or whatever it is, once car interior warmed up, all back to normal.
A slight concern was remote locking just got the " pip" of the horn when trying to lock the car up. As with above, once warmed , no problem.

[Stokey66]

Originally Posted by stocktake

If it doesn't respond to the hot water or warming up then my experience with this is that when the locks freeze we pull on the handle and the plastic clip that encapsulates the threaded bar slips a thread or the double offset on the bar is bent a little more giving the same effect. this then leaves the lock mechanism in limbo until you can remove and refit the plastic clip.
Sounds difficult but is more fiddly than anything else. the hard part is getting the door card off undamaged with the door closed.

This is what I am suspecting unfortunately my Parkinson’s has robbed me of my left sided dexterity and strength. I did manage to fix a faulty rear parking sensor but it took me an hour to fit one captive screw.😕
If the wd40 doesn’t work I’m back to my original question does anybody know of any 75 specialists in Lincolnshire. Many thanks.

[Pruts3r]

I've had this in winter 2018/2019. Could open the door but then it wouldn't close anymore. Drove in the freezing cold with my window open and my arm hanging out like a rapper just to hold the door (making a right turn was hell since the door weighs a ton).

Naturally that wasn't a option for parking it over night outside. What I would do was just hunker down in my knees make a cup with my hands around the locking mechanism and breath in there. Eventually the lock would get warm enough to work again and I could shut the door and the lock would catch again.

Looks like there is more going on with your lock... Sorry to hear

[Bobward]

I had a similar issue last winter where my rear door wouldn't close. After lots of hot water and faffing about I got it to close and lock. What I didn't realise though was the latch hadn't actualy engaged properly and the door was only being held closed by the frost. I realised this the next morning when after 20 minutes driving the interior had heated up enough to melt the frost and the door swung open on a roundabout.

[sewerman]

To answer the question abut a Lincolnshire member PM Trikey

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[stevestrat]

Originally Posted by sewerman

To answer the question abut a Lincolnshire member PM Trikey

Trikey is now in Bungay, Norfolk 100+ miles away from Horncastle.

[Stokey66]

Sorry for the delay, but the totally jammed passenger door has been fixed. I’d like to give a massively thank you to Dave Lincs without whom it would still be jammed.
After trying all the quick methods to unjam the door a broken lock mechanism was diagnosed by Dave. I purchased a replacement lock on eBay for approximately £20 and waited for some decent weather.
Dave managed to remove the door card undamaged despite the door being jammed, how I don’t know🤔 he then chiselled the old lock off and fitted the eBay lock. Job done, so a massively thankful to Dave Lincs👏👏👏
I don’t know know what it is about the rover but despite a run of problems with it I still love it.

[SD1too]

Thanks Andy for taking the trouble to post the solution some three months after the problem first occurred. Members in future will thank you for that!

Simon

PS Your profile is still showing that you haven't got a car! Perhaps you could enter the details which are vital when the next piece of trouble comes along to challenge us all.

[trikey]

Originally Posted by Stokey66

Sorry for the delay, but the totally jammed passenger door has been fixed. I’d like to give a massively thank you to Dave Lincs without whom it would still be jammed.
After trying all the quick methods to unjam the door a broken lock mechanism was diagnosed by Dave. I purchased a replacement lock on eBay for approximately £20 and waited for some decent weather.
Dave managed to remove the door card undamaged despite the door being jammed, how I don’t know🤔 he then chiselled the old lock off and fitted the eBay lock. Job done, so a massively thankful to Dave Lincs👏👏👏
I don’t know know what it is about the rover but despite a run of problems with it I still love it.

Dave got his hands dirty!! Need pictures or it didn’t happen 🤣🤣