Hi. I have a 2010 Skoda superb and I can only open my drivers door from the inside as I think the cable has snapped. Is it expensive and is it a big job to fix?

Hi. I have a 2010 Skoda superb and I can only open my drivers door from the inside as I think the cable has snapped. Is it expensive and is it a big job to fix?

Might be best to post this in the Superb II forum as you'll get more responses there.....

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For some reason I slammed the door a few times and it seems to work. But if I don't slam it then it won't. How come it is temperamental?

Ice/frost in the handle/lock mechanism causing part of it to become sticky?

 

I don't believe there is a cable to the outside handle. There is to the inside handle, definitely.

 

When I looked (when I had the door card off for an unrelated problem), the lock was difficult to access (for security reasons?). I am not aware of any easy way to get oil or grease deep into the mechanism.

 

I'm certain others will be along who do know...

Edited 30 December, 201411 yr by CombatWombat

It's now working after unlocking and opening from inside. Once it's been opened from inside I can then open it from outside until car is locked again. When I lock it with key or fob and unlock it again it won't open from the outside.

I have exactly the same problem. started in the frost last week, I am going to try wd 40 or g80 with silicon and see if a bit of fettling will work otherwise I think its off with the door card and get fiddling.

Hi, just wondering whether you had any luck with fixing your handles? I have a similar problem... In the frost 2-3 weeks ago I opened the door and it wouldn't latch again. With a bit of jiggling it did finally latch but then wouldn't open from the outside. I sprayed it up with some wd40 - just through the gap around where the handled opens on the outside. This seemed to do the trick and it was OK until Friday when it froze up pretty hard again.

The not latching itself saga repeated, but locking and unlocking with the button on the drivers door released whatever was stuck. Very alarmingly the doors then somehow all locked again when I got out...engine was running to help defrost!! Spare key wouldn't work on the button (because they don't for some reason!) So had to get the little cover to the key lock off and that did get me back in!

Now the door is latching OK, although I'm worried whether it will work if it's frosty in the morning! However once locked it won't open with the outside handle until it's been open with the inside... Just as ures Phildon!

If any of you have come across solutions then please let me know. Mine is well out of warrant and I could do without any big bills. I've had door cards off of previous cars, so willing to give it a go but would rather know what I'm facing!!

Cheers. Kevin

My passenger door won't open from the inside handle is this due frost ? as it was working fine before today ???