HI All,

 

My son put his Roomster on its side, I have been to the breakers to get nearside passenger front and rear doors and replaced them , only problem now is they are shut closed and no way of opening them, managed to get one open by using a golf trolley battery and found thr circuit to unlock so they do work, I changed over donor door lock to original lock but this still does not respond or open, the mechanism appears to work but alas it does not open , any one know the secret of how to reset them? any help appreciated.

Cheers

Nick

This may help, although Polo-based rather than Roomy, same principle may apply (see posts from 17th Feb>): Deadlock hack

Hi Pete, Thanks for this, no joy, got ther rear one working by using a 12 volt feed to the plug in the B pillar and swapping with the old lock,need to splice into the fron door loom to open  it I hope and investigate!

Cheers NIck

6 minutes ago, Nick-w said:

no joy,

Are you saying you drilled a hole, put a tool in the screwhead but still couldn't open it?

To get the rear donor door open I had to access the loom connector in the B pillar and feed 12 volts to the lock to enable it to open( using double door pull), I then changed the lock to the original in damaged door and before fitting connected it loose to the loom and checked that it worked , result , so fitted this to the donor door and all is good on that front. Passenger front door is more difficult, it is closed shut but has door card off, as you cant access the A pillar to get to the loom connector so I an going to have to figure out which two wires I need to add the 12 volt feed to open the dead lock. when I push the remote the lock mechanism works but the door will not open so the deadlock has to be at fault worst case I will dremmel and remove the deadlock. What a pain!

Blue/Red & Blue/Purple are the wires going to the motor on the body side of the 28 pin disconnect 

@Nick-w You don't seem to have understood the link I supplied. 

The way I read it, if you drill a suitably positioned hole on the inside of the door metalwork, you can get a Torx screwdriver through it onto this screw, which then allows you to unlock the door directly without electrical help.

 

This video might help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UREb0IJu_H8

Finally got the door open, thanks to the video recommendation of the German chap in the states by releasing the outer handle cable, very many thanks for your help, now need to work out the fault!

cheers

Nick