This happened to me once the other night and I thought nothing of it at the time

Got in the car today and went to close the door and it didn't ****

Now I am away from home and its not shutting at all, not even when I deadlock the other doors with the key or button on drivers door

Any ideas??

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Managed to drive home with my left hand and my right hand holding onto the door handle

Police car drove past and noticed the door, got a funny look but they carried on

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Does the door shut flush ?

 

does the mechanism move when you pull the door handle (interior and exterior)?

Door lock mechanism jammed?

Sounds daft but have you actually tried spraying any penetrating fluid in the moving part of lock bolt (not the keyhole) then try to work the mechanism.

Normally it should have some grease on it, is it bone dry ?

 

If that doesn't work it sounds like it would be worth getting the door card off to take a closer look at whats going wrong

Does the door shut flush ?

 

does the mechanism move when you pull the door handle (interior and exterior)?

 

Door shuts all the way but nothing clicks to hold it shut

 

Both internal and external handles are working fine

 

Door lock mechanism jammed?

Sounds daft but have you actually tried spraying any penetrating fluid in the moving part of lock bolt (not the keyhole) then try to work the mechanism.

Normally it should have some grease on it, is it bone dry ?

 

If that doesn't work it sounds like it would be worth getting the door card off to take a closer look at whats going wrong

 

Just been to a garage around the corner to get it checked and they said its definitely the lock mechanism

 

Before going there, i spent about 30 minutes messing with it and sprayed WD40 on the handles, the door pin itself and the moving part on the inside of the door, the issue is with that part i believe

 

It had plenty of grease on it, i think something inside the door has snapped which is stopping them part of the mechanism from locking shut when i close the door

 

Going to have to drive to work later with the door tied shut

 

Get it sorted tomorrow

Looking at older threads, there seems to be a safety feature on the door so once the mechanism fails, the door stays shut or open depending on what it is doing at the time??

Exactly the same as this!

 

Is it THAT simple ?

 

That looks nothing like what you described above. If it was that basic then I wonder why it wasn't picked up by garage -

although nothing surprises me in relation to garages and wouldn't always trust on them to solve any problem for me

 

Also could be worth having twine handy if it happened again - that could be okay temporarily holding the door as shut as possible - as I think you were extremely lucky not to get pulled and have the book thrown at you with the car in that state.

I still need a new mechanism

 

But i have managed to lock it for now, you know how the door is when it's not shut properly so sticks out a bit, it's like that at the moment and alarmed so at least it's secure

sounds like the Bowden cable's become detached.

Cool better than nothing

 

If its secured you can always temporarily climb from the passenger seat ! Annoying but workable temporarily

Found a way to lock it now, get in the car, pull the door in from the inside as hard as I can and hold the door pin down and stop it from coming up so it deadlocks, then it's deadlocked but still moving so give it one hard tug from the inside again and it locks as normal

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Thats better, pretty sure the alarm doesn't set if one of the doors/boot/bonnet isn't shut properly

The door seems to have fixed itself!

So glad. Thought it was too good to be true at first but I've been testing it for 3 days now and it opens and closes without any issues.

Going to spray WD40 on all of the door latches just in case.

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Have had this issue twice now, as this is a recent thread thought I'd add to it. Have a second hand 2008 Fabia Estate. Not long after buying had problem with passenger door just bouncing open, not latching - then it worked again. Now had the problem for the first time since about 6 weeks later. 

 

I tried pushing the latch back, that didn't help. Got in the car, held the door shut and locked it from the inside using the central locking button in the car. That kept it closed and locked but still not closed tight.

 

Pulled the door handle from the inside which turned the locks off but I could open the door! Tried locking and unlocking via the button inside the car and the keyfob... eventually climbed out the drivers door!

Opened with no problem from the outside and closed with no problem also...

 

So fixed again for now but no idea why.

Will also try a bit of WD40. 

 

My additional issue which may or may not have anything to do with this is it's just got very cold where I live -8 right now, was similar the first time it happened, so could be something freezing up somewhere.

I was away working in the middle of nowhere on the weekend and my doors were actually frozen, the exterior handles once pulled open wouldn't go back in until I pushed them back in myself

But this issue has now stopped, I don't think it was because of the weather but a lot of WD40 sprayed into the latch seems to have done the trick

If it ever doesn't close, again I now know how to close it from the inside by pushing the pin all the way down for about 2 seconds until the doors deadlock so it won't be as bad as being stuck somewhere with the door not closing or having to hold it shut while driving lol

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