Thread: Rear door not unlocking.....

Originally Posted by Longtimer

4Wheeler,

I can't believe what I am hearing here.... Admitting to owning a Mazda.... The shame of it....
But..... I suppose.... You have seen the error of your ways. And, come back to the fold. Hallelujah Brother! You've seen the light.

Perhaps the weaping rear main is problematic with the puma series engine. And there I was thinking that, with my luck, I copped a dud. My leak was spotted at the 20K service. It's due now for it's 40K, so I get it all fixed up soon. I will ring around to check prices on the service though. It's marvelous how much it can vary, according to company and who you talk to.

Tomorrow I will spray some gun oil into the lock. I don't know how much good it will do. As it's not catching when you initially turn the key, as it would be for the pins and barrel. Instead it's at about 45? that it catches and then feels like it manages to slip past what ever it is catching on. It certainly won't get past what ever it is without the handle held up. Holding the handle up wasn't required at the start, but it is now.


Cheers,

Phill.

I don't know what I was thinking when I bought the Mazda. Quite powerful, very comfortable, quiet and reliable. I had nothing to fix on the weekends, nothing to tighten up, nothing to seal. That left me with too much time on my hands.
Now owning another Defender, that is no longer a problem. While the Defender is noisy and is a bit difficult to park at times, it is just so much fun which is what I missed. Once off the blacktop though the Defender shines and handles everything I do easily. On a trip to the Victorian high country which the Defender would do easily, my Mazda came off second best due to low clearance. I could have spent good dollars lifting the BT50 but then that might have introduced drive train vibrations. So back to a Defender it was.

The Ford engine is not too bad. I have a 2011 Ford Transit which has just clocked up 150,000km. No seal leaks. It did munch a clutch spigot bearing which mangled the input shaft to the gearbox running surface necessitating a very expensive repair but the Ford dealer had never seen the spigot bearing collapse like it did so I put it down to bad luck. The engine itself has been reliable touch wood.

Regarding the door lock, I could see mine jamming as the lock would only unlock about half way before jamming based on the child lock lever movement. I had to unlock mine from inside. I will get some dry spray lubricant as the wet lubricant I have used will probably attract more dust and jam it up again.

Re door locks, the actual latch, I seem to recall candle wax being a goodsolution?

I had an issue with this at one point, I found that I'd flicked what looks like a dead lock switch on the inside of the back door. Crawled through and unlocked that and it unlocked fine again.

Originally Posted by justinc

Get them to check the wiring where it goes through the convoluted rubber conduit at the b pillar. They pinch and eventually break the wires. Have repaired heaps of them.

Jc

There you go, justinc is onto it..

Regards
Daz

Originally Posted by justinc

Get them to check the wiring where it goes through the convoluted rubber conduit at the b pillar. They pinch and eventually break the wires. Have repaired heaps of them.

Jc

Even more so if you happen to have door extensions...

Originally Posted by n plus one

Even more so if you happen to have door extensions...

Which I have. It's on my list of holiday jobs, after I get the second battery connected to some plugs so we can take the fridge camping.