Okies, so I went out to my car one day and the exterior door handle wouldn’t open the door. I could clearly hear the lock disengaging, but the handle felt disconnected. Then some days later, before i could fix it it snowed hella. A few days after that, I tried to get out of the driver side and the interior door handle no longer works (and feels “spongey”). The lock sound like its working fine both with a key on the outside and from the latch on the inside. So now the door is stuck closed, and I have no idea how I can get the door panel off to fix it. :sad: Any ideas for me?
remove the interior door handle (the one that opens the door from the inside). pull the handle away a bit… 2 rods should be connected to it. one is for locking, and one if for popping the door open. if u can’t see them on there… that means the plastic piece that retains the rod to the handle is broken. u could try fishing for it in there… shouldn’t be that hard to reach it. once u find the rod… all u gotta do is pull it forward, towards the front of the car… that should get it open.
trial and error will tell u which one is for the locks and which is for the release. once u do get it open tho. remove the door panels, and peel back that plastic dust shield thing, and then get to work. most likely all u need is a new exterior handle, and a new interior handle. (or it just needs to be reconnected).
hope that helps. if u have a shop manual that would help u out too, cuz it should have pics of what the internals look like with all the rods n stuff.
Awesome thanks! I’ll be getting on it this weekend, and hopefully I won’t have to keep knocking my mirror off trying to climb out of the passenger side 