passenger front door wont open

[Mr.M]

Hi Guys

new to the site, got a 2.5 DSE 96, the latch on the passenger front door stopped working with the remote lock, now you can't open the door at all from inside or out. have pulled the door panel back as much as pos to look inside, all the cables are attatched. Could this be an electrical fault. Any ideas.

[David Sparkes]

Any Ideas?

There are various places it could fail electrically, but as it won't respond to the inner or outer handles I'm going to go for a mechanical problem.

Does the internal realease feel as though it's pulling something? The cable from the handle to the latch have a habit of snapping at the handle end. It's normally the drivers side, but that may have been changed already.

You will find this common, most reported faults, and cures, affect the Drivers side, but increasing vehicle age could now cause the failures to occur on the passenger side as well.

From the outside, the door handle is connected to the latch via a rod, and this can come un-clipped.

http://www.rangie.com/articles/19/1823 may be useful reading to understand this arrangement.

In both cases the fact that the latch is stiff with dried up grease may have put the linkages under enough strain to cause premature failure.

Probably the best way in is via the glass aperture. Once unlatched you can easily remove the door card. It doesn't make for perfect access, but it's better than what you have at the moment!!

http://www.rangie.com/articles/19/1825 gives details.

If you haven't already got it, now is the time to download the RAVE CD. Search for Green Oval Downloads and pick the one for the 38A. Once you have created the CD from the Image file you can either run the programme from the CD (slowly), or copy the complete CD as it is to a new foilder on your Hard Drive. Create a shortcut pointing to the rave.exe file in what was the root directory of the CD.

HTH

[Mr.M]

Any Ideas?

There are various places it could fail electrically, but as it won't respond to the inner or outer handles I'm going to go for a mechanical problem.

Does the internal realease feel as though it's pulling something? The cable from the handle to the latch have a habit of snapping at the handle end. It's normally the drivers side, but that may have been changed already.

You will find this common, most reported faults, and cures, affect the Drivers side, but increasing vehicle age could now cause the failures to occur on the passenger side as well.

From the outside, the door handle is connected to the latch via a rod, and this can come un-clipped.

http://www.rangie.com/articles/19/1823 may be useful reading to understand this arrangement.

In both cases the fact that the latch is stiff with dried up grease may have put the linkages under enough strain to cause premature failure.

Probably the best way in is via the glass aperture. Once unlatched you can easily remove the door card. It doesn't make for perfect access, but it's better than what you have at the moment!!

http://www.rangie.com/articles/19/1825 gives details.

If you haven't already got it, now is the time to download the RAVE CD. Search for Green Oval Downloads and pick the one for the 38A. Once you have created the CD from the Image file you can either run the programme from the CD (slowly), or copy the complete CD as it is to a new foilder on your Hard Drive. Create a shortcut pointing to the rave.exe file in what was the root directory of the CD.

HTH

Thanks david

will check out them links, when you pull the door card out to look inside both the outer door handle and inner are moving the catch on the lock, the actual door latch is just moving up and down about a quarter of an inch it seems to be a ttatched yet no door opening joy.