My driver's side rear door lock has been a bit intermittent lately.

It's sticking by the sound of it.

get it rplaced while you can still open it is my advice. My Fabia's stuck dead one day, been a bitch to try and sort ever since what with trying to get the door card off a shut door. I'll have to grind out the lock now, or smash it apart somehow. Don't leave it like I did is all I'm sayin' :(

My nearside rear keeps going through short spells of not having the power to unlock. Doesn't appear to be catching though, on inspection, just weak.

get it rplaced while you can still open it is my advice. My Fabia's stuck dead one day, been a bitch to try and sort ever since what with trying to get the door card off a shut door. I'll have to grind out the lock now, or smash it apart somehow. Don't leave it like I did is all I'm sayin' :(

doubt you will be able to grind it out due to lack of access. depending which door it is?

have done 2 fabia doors, you can remove the door card without damage (search my previous posts for info) then literally grapple/yank/manhandle the mechanism out.

make sure you have your replacement to go in though or you wont be able to lock/close the door!

have done 2 fabia doors, you can remove the door card without damage (search my previous posts for info)

Haven't a link to those have you Oet? Looked on your posts in your profile, but only shows your last 3 or 4 topics.

i dont have a guide dude, but i posted in another thread roughly how to do it,

which door is it?

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/240448-back-door-stuck-closed-do-i-need-to-smash-the-lock-off/

According to my searching the part number is 3B4 839 016 AL

I have asked the local dealer for a price, but I suspect I'll be looking at breakers for a second-hand one

yes, it will be easy for a man of your ability to do rob, dont worry!

need any help pm me!

Sure is common, they've run out of them in the country at the moment!

Can do one for $285 incl, but it's a week away from Sinagpore.

Ouch ! That's about 145 quid.

get them on ebay for around 70, send to your family who can then post to you, or get a secondhand one and tak the risk that it might go again

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-GOLF-MK4-BORA-PASSAT-B5-DOOR-LOCK-MECHANISM-REAR-RIGHT-NEW-/330768320061?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4d0354063d

70 quid delivered to NZ and it says it's new

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-GOLF-MK4-BORA-PASSAT-B5-DRIVER-SIDE-REAR-DOOR-LOCK-MECHANISM-CATCH-/390484425337?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item5aeaaf7a79

or 41 quid delivered for a second-hand one.

Or about $30 from local scrapper from a 2000 Golf. Which could be worse than mine.

Hmm,

go new dude, whats the point of taking a risk for 60% of the cost of new

go new dude, whats the point of taking a risk for 60% of the cost of new

Yep agreed

http://skoda.workshop-manuals.com/octavia-mk2/index.php?id=426

nice link!

its easy to do dude once you know where its attached, it is a fiddly fecker to get out the actual door though!

Fixed!

Fixed!

nice! job done! see its not bad to do at all.

see its not bad to do at all.

it is when the bloody door's locked Still, managed to sort mine last week aswell, had to take a long flat bladed screwdriver, a cold chisel and a hammer! Smashed through the casing to disable mangle the cog and the door opened, allowing me to change it

it is when the bloody door's locked Still, managed to sort mine last week aswell, had to take a long flat bladed screwdriver, a cold chisel and a hammer! Smashed through the casing to disable mangle the cog and the door opened, allowing me to change it

lol, i broke the last one out by hand, hulk style!

lol, i broke the last one out by hand, hulk style!

almost forgot, thanks for your advice and links in the last thread, Oet. Much appreciated

almost forgot, thanks for your advice and links in the last thread, Oet. Much appreciated

no worries buddy, glad you got it sorted:>...i must have sinned, i have yet another one to do on a passat now....booo!