Helping someone - door won't open

PurdueGuy · 11-24-2005, 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by TY3Sc2 from TSN

my wife got a problem with her 93 sc2. the driver door will not open through the outside or the inside fo the vehicle. i pulled the handle thingy off inside and pulled on the handle lever to no avail. I think she slammed the door causing the rod to pop off the mechanics inside the door.

Any ideas how i can get the door open from the outside? I could get the door panel off, but this would involve breaking it of course, unfortunately.

Id like to not break the door panel if possible.

TIA

I knew something like this had been addressed before, and did a search. The thing before was a back door on a '96, but it was mentioned that there was a TSB on some other year front door. Wondering if that applies here?

**Ssicarman** · 11-24-2005, 05:39 AM

Before they do anything they need to get a replacement door latch. That is what is causing the problem. The old one will need to be broken up to get the door to open.

Here are my instructions to do this. Check my photo gallery on Sat Fans for a diagram.

What you need to do is to access the interior of the door. Roll the windowdown, remove the outer trim piece at the top of the door that is against thewindow. The trim piece is held onto the outer door panel by a sort of cliparrangement on the trim. It clips/rolls onto the door panel. I usually startat the rear of the door by lifting the trim up and then gradually working itup off of the panel. Once you get it half or more off you should be abletoslid it out from under the mirror and then all the way off. With this offyou should be able to see into the inside of the door. With a light you'll be able to see the door latch. Then you'll need a 14-16 inch long smalldiameter shaft flat bladed screw driver. What you need to do is use it likea chisel and break the door latch at that place, it should be a whitishcoloured plastic part of the door latch. When it's broken the right way (orbroken up enough) the door latch will allow the door to open. With thedooropen you can then remove the mirror and then the outer door panel to gain access to the inside of the door and remove the bad latch and install a new one.

I_got_a_purple_SC1 · 11-28-2005, 12:25 AM

i was going to reply to this topic scisarman, since you helped me out about this, but i couldn't find this topic but yeah thats how you do it.