passenger door wont open..!

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:10 pm

hi,

the passenger door on my mk3/zr wont open.. the button wont come up, the interior and ext handle wont open the door.

how do i fix it...? as i cant open it.. :cry:

help... im itching to give people rides.. but this makes it a pain in the arse.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:14 pm

Unpleasant.

The only remedy I can think of involves trashing the door card to get to the central locking mechanism.

sharky · Post by **sharky** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:26 pm

does the thing come up if u use the remote thing?

ChrisD · Post by **ChrisD** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:27 pm

can you not wind the window down and use something to undo the latch

fluke · Post by **fluke** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:30 pm

doughts · Post by **doughts** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:36 pm

Thanks for that Dave my four year old has just shouted 'Orange car' :lol:

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:58 pm

You can get the 25/ZR cards off with the door closed if you have flexibile hands. They dont have the screws on the side (from memory) like the 200's did.

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:09 pm

the door button does pop up... central locking motor is making some funny nosies...

i did look at taking the door card off.. the only screw i can find that is hidden, is behind the dash board.

i might beable to get the door card off, or hinge it forward enough to get to the motor... with the seat in the way.... then what?

Bubble Turbo · Post by **Bubble Turbo** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:01 pm

mine done this on the driver's side, c/locking makes a loud clicking and the door pin pops up and straight down never unlocking the door (and you cant force it to stay up)

i had a very destructive solution and it wasn't pretty! i dremeled an access port through the door card. with a long chisel/screwdriver i got happy with a big hammer to rip the central locking motor clean off the lock mechanism. I also had to perform surgery on the metal shroud surrounding the lock mech with a cutting/grinding disc on the end of a snake (dremel again.) once the lock is suitably destroyed you can reach in and have a twiddle around to free yor door.

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:04 pm

Bubble Turbo wrote:mine done this on the driver's side, c/locking makes a loud clicking and the door pin pops up and straight down never unlocking the door (and you cant force it to stay up)

i had a very destructive solution and it wasn't pretty! i dremeled an access port through the door card. Then with the a long chisel/screwdriver got happy with a big hammer to rip the central locking motor clean off the lock mechanism. I also had to perform surgery on the metal shroud surrounding the lock mech with a cutting/grinding disc on the end of a snake (dremel again.) once the lock is suitably destroyed you can reach in and have a twiddle around to free yor door.

i didnt really wanna ruin my ZR door card..!

Bubble Turbo · Post by **Bubble Turbo** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:08 pm

uv got no choice really

, unless you can get to that lone bolt in between the dash and door card. your gona kill the lock + motor too sadly (to be fair its already dead) and they aint cheap.

one long winded option would be to take the wing off and try and free the door hinges. of course the catch will still be inaccessible but this would probably give u the play to get to tat illusive bolt.

t16omcat · Post by **t16omcat** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:25 pm

try giving the exterior door handle a thump with your hand while you operate the lock button & interior release.

if the outer handle doesn't return the latch to the fully closed position the door won't open. lack of use can cause the handle & mechanism to stiffen up.

hth.

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:28 pm

t16omcat wrote:try giving the exterior door handle a thump with your hand while you operate the lock button & interior release.

if the outer handle doesn't return the latch to the fully closed position the door won't open. lack of use can cause the handle & mechanism to stiffen up.

hth.

cheers,

i will try that, just for info, the door and lock was working fine..untill oneday it just didnt..!