Hey all,

 

I've had a search around already to no avail on this subject, does anyone know of a guide on how to get open/repair a dead door lock?

For a few weeks it was whining and half-assedly opening after bashing under the lock to get it to unlock. Now due to my lazy negiligence it's locked completely and I cannot open the door for love nor money. When the inside door handle is pulled the button comes up but as soon as you let go it goes back down, and there's no whining noise from the lock at all when unlocking the rest (none of which whine)

 

I'm also going to be sorting the rear door seals soon as i've found some decent guides and a recent spate of poor weather has pushed it forward on my to do list!

 

If it makes any difference it's an '04 vRS

Keep trying to get it to open otherwise you'll be destroying the door card to get access.

They are plenty of topics in this issue. You'll need to follow this guide: http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/119359-removing-the-ancillaries-carrier/

Use the search (search the issue on Google but include 'briskoda' as well). Your basically going to be destroying the lock as well to get it to release(if you can't get it unlocked). I've posted pics etc on this before.

There's even a recent post on this aka in the last day

Edited 4 March, 201610 yr by Thisday

Keep trying to get it to open otherwise you'll be destroying the door card to get access.

They are plenty of topics in this issue. You'll need to follow this guide: http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/119359-removing-the-ancillaries-carrier/

Use the search (search the issue on Google but include 'briskoda' as well). Your basically going to be destroying the lock as well to get it to release(if you can't get it unlocked). I've posted pics etc on this before.

There's even a recent post on this aka in the last day

 

With the right tools, door card can be removed I think....  Removing the passenger seat is probably best, to give a little more elbow room.

Disconnect the battery then open it from inside, the solenoid is constantly locking it so kill the solenoid.

With the right tools, door card can be removed I think.... Removing the passenger seat is probably best, to give a little more elbow room.

The front door cards have 3 torx screws in the bottom, you can't access them with the door shut, therefore if you can't get it open you destroy the door card to remove.

The rears don't have the screws in. Removed that in-situ so once those are out it can be done (I have done the rears without been able to open the door- you end up half inside the door to smash the lock out)

Edited 4 March, 201610 yr by Thisday

Disconnect the battery then open it from inside, the solenoid is constantly locking it so kill the solenoid.

 

Thats a great fix if it works, I had a rear door lock on one of my Fabias, i had to remove the door card and smash it off from the inside... was a nightmare of a job!

very annoying if this is all it needed

Thats a great fix if it works, I had a rear door lock on one of my Fabias, i had to remove the door card and smash it off from the inside... was a nightmare of a job!

very annoying if this is all it needed

 

It'll only work in this particular situation assuming the lock is mechanically sound and just has a microswitch fault, because the mechanical over-ride mechanism should always work so passengers don't get trapped inside in an emergency.

It'll only work in this particular situation assuming the lock is mechanically sound and just has a microswitch fault, because the mechanical over-ride mechanism should always work so passengers don't get trapped inside in an emergency.

Haha so wish I had seen this before I had to spend 5 hours replacing mine last year!