When I decided I had nothing to lose, I even rigged it up so I could use my legs to try and move the cable - no joy. Tried progressively more and more force but it does not move. Got the door panel pulled back as best as I could and pulled on the lock mechanism. I found this thread and did the same thing. I can actually hear the solenoid seemingly working fine (makes different sounds for lock and unlock -same as the other doors) but the door doesn't unlock. The locking mechanism in my passenger door failed. If you get the lock without destroying it, please open it and post some pictures. I put a piece of cardboard on the window to protect it. I ended up dinging up the top of the door panel with the claw of the hammer. It looks like he does a good job with the rebuild and he was helpful with questions on the inner workings of the lock when I explained my problem.īe careful with the tools. He didn’t have a listing for our lock but when I emailed him, he put up a listing up for me. I bought a rebuilt lock from this guy on ebay. I attached some pictures of the lock I took out. Once exposed, you can stick a screw driver into it and lever up the tab that controls the latch. Then drill into the lock’s plastic housing right where the latch mechanism is. If I was doing it again, I would get a right angle drill and use a hole cutter on the metal door panel beneath the interior plastic and expose the lock. So I had to put the door panel back just to open the door fully.

The whole thing was a pain from start to finish, even after I got the door ‘open’ it still wouldn’t open because the door panel was stuck on the pillar. In fact, I just finished up today because I was away for a few weeks on vacation.īasically what I did was peel the top of the door panel back, and used a big screw driver, hammer, diagonal cutters and pliers to rip apart the lock housing until I could expose the latch mechanism (see photos) and turn it (press it up) to open the door. Can you share how did you finally resolved the problem of not being able to unlock your door.?

Door deadlock wont open