Thread: Help with door !

Hi Andrew,

You've done what I would have. Were there any loose rods around the door lock when you have the tried. I'm thinking that perhaps a clip that holds one of the rods has broken off or come off. If that is the case then try to find the bit of the lock mechanism where it most likely went into and try to move that.

Otherwise something has happened inside the lock and perhaps taking a pair of long nose pliers and pulling at the mechanism inside may free it.

Apart from that I wish you well in getting it fixed. It is painful when the doors play up like that. Let us know how you go.

Hi Mike,

Well 2 hours later laying on my guts with my legs in the air swearing like a gutter rat it bloody opened!

I used your suggestion but I have no idea what made it release?

I tried to be methodical at first for another poor bugger who has to do this but gave up after the first hour.

Just pushed and pulled everything in the end and it popped !

Wow what a mission.

Thanks for your suggestion I am off to try it stop my ribs from cramping now lol

Cheers
Andrew

Hi Andrew,

I'm glad it opened. Probably the next thing I'd do after seeing the physio for all the contortion you did is pull the lock out and see where/why it failed. Dust got into the rear door of mine and it jammed the lock. I found spraying some carby cleaner cleared that up. I've not had that happen on the side doors though and wouldn't have thought they could get that much dust.

regards,

When helping a fellow forum member with his rear door we also tried every rod lever we could find, in the end i just happened to look at the catch and went to scrape out what i thought was hardened grease that turned out to be a piece of soft plastic caught in the jaws.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

When helping a fellow forum member with his rear door we also tried every rod lever we could find, in the end i just happened to look at the catch and went to scrape out what i thought was hardened grease that turned out to be a piece of soft plastic caught in the jaws.

Haha and it still works!! That was awesome...


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