The passenger door only unlocks once in a while,  it seems random, I've managed to get it to work and have taken the card off but am now faced with the carrier which is bolted on.

 

What are these, one indicated one on other edge ? locating dowels or rivets ?

the carrier doesn't seem to want to move, the door has locked itself again

 

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You don't need to do anything with those rivets, they are something to do with the electric window mechanism.  What you do need to do is to take the two large plastic/rubber grommets out, lower the window glass until you can see the bolts to release the glass. Do that, tape the window up fully once it's detached from the carrier, then you can remove the carrier. 

 

Thank you, I'll give it a go later

7 hours ago, Wino said:

You don't need to do anything with those rivets, they are something to do with the electric window mechanism.

 

 

Locating dowels

 

What was wrong with the lock, how/what did you do to get it to work again?

38 minutes ago, tigerbiker said:

What was wrong with the lock, how/what did you do to get it to work again?

It's jammed solid, neither the electric release or the mechanical  will work,

I've bought a cheap replacement which arrived yesterday. I now have to bribe my mechanic mate with free fishing trips to fit it for me.

Normally it wouldn't bother me as I very rarely carry a passenger but the MOT is due in a couple of weeks.

As I'm still using the car I don't want it left with the window open or whatever if I attempted it myself. 

I had problems with 3 door lock. Could not figure our what was wrong with them as they worked intermittently.

First 2 I replaced from ebay. On the third one i ended cleaning the small EM within the lock and it worked ever since. It is necessary to clean the collector where the brushes slide on. Specially the small gap which separate the collector poles.

The car was in for the MoT so the garage fitted the lock I bought from eBay. I did wonder if it would work as it cost the princely sum of £13.75 delivered. It works fine, at that price it's hardly worth fiddling about with the old one.. 

Some welding to the nearside sill, fit and sort out the door lock and fix a brake light for £250 including the MoT, about what I expected. 

It's been a cheap 20,000 miles motoring.

An advisory that the rear discs are nearing the end of their life, that doesn't look to be an expensive job.

They do suffer from rusty sills, mine is showing these signs on an 18 yr old car. The metal seams to be very thin compared to car panels when welding was a common thing.