Help: How To Approach This?

[mushilea]

Hey guys,

My door is broken. The interior handle and lock no longer function, and the door is locked (and closed).

This was brought about by a child hanging from the outside door handle when the interior lock was being used resulting in, I beleive, the cable breaking away from the interor door handle mechanism.

Now because the door is locked, I can't actually get the door card off the door. The only thing I can think of doing is to cut away the door card to gain access... but obviously I don't really want to do this.

Any idea's?

[Seano350GT]

This is why i'm never having kids.

Where are you located? I'd take it to a shop, of some sort. Or individual, like Chris Rogers if your in the sunny coast/brisbane area.

[SMOKEYV35]

what a conundrum.

I think your best option is going to be labour intensive, but it's also going to do the least amount of permenant damage - and that would be to remove the seat so you have some room to move, take off the B-pillar trim so you can try expose an edge on the door card and try pry it up enough from the rear edge so that you can pop it off - at least enough so that you can access the cable with a pair of pliers - then just pull on the cable to pop the door.

don't forget to disconnect the battery before you do this so that you don't upset the airbag in the seat.