1999 - Door Locking Intermittent Problems
Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 2:39 pm
Several months ago my power locking failed. My car has power locking on both front doors; both rear passengers are manual with manual windows and locks.
I didn't think much of it as I could still unlock manually with the key and decided to deal with that problem whenever I could get around to it (I don't have a remote key).
Over the past few months, I've had an issue with the doors being "unlocked" but not opening, sometimes from inside, outside, or both, on both front doors (both back doors have always and continue to unlock/lock and open as normal).
I will put the key in the lock and unlock the door, but when I pull the handle the door won't open. Sometimes it will work fine but when I reach my destination I can't get out the driver's side door even if it's unlocked and have to go out the passenger or rear door. It seems to be worse in colder weather but is highly variable. No amount of locking/unlocking/relocking etc. fiddling with the key in the lock or moving the pin seems to help. I recently had the driver-side lock replaced as it broke and that didn't seem to affect the issue at all.
Let me know if you have any questions or recommendations! I'd like to try to fix this myself if I can.
I didn't think much of it as I could still unlock manually with the key and decided to deal with that problem whenever I could get around to it (I don't have a remote key).
Over the past few months, I've had an issue with the doors being "unlocked" but not opening, sometimes from inside, outside, or both, on both front doors (both back doors have always and continue to unlock/lock and open as normal).
I will put the key in the lock and unlock the door, but when I pull the handle the door won't open. Sometimes it will work fine but when I reach my destination I can't get out the driver's side door even if it's unlocked and have to go out the passenger or rear door. It seems to be worse in colder weather but is highly variable. No amount of locking/unlocking/relocking etc. fiddling with the key in the lock or moving the pin seems to help. I recently had the driver-side lock replaced as it broke and that didn't seem to affect the issue at all.
Let me know if you have any questions or recommendations! I'd like to try to fix this myself if I can.
....... for the central locking, only occasional problem with the key unlock