Following my previous thread, regarding replacing a damaged door from a pick n pull donor door. (And the 30 day trade in for the core is counting down =P )
The door on my car is damaged from the outside, some how rendering the door stuck shut.
I got the interior paneling off, rods all look fine. All actions and move fine. Nothing disconnected.
The thing that seems to be damaged or compromised is the latching and/or the locking unit. Which is interesting as the exterior damage is not near the latching (far as I can tell) and doesn't look like it would affect the latching. But from the inside of the door, I can't see anywhere near the latching, so I can't see what is affected.
When I unlock the door manually or using power, the lock will unlock but spring back to the lock position.
I tried holding the lock switch open and simultaneous with the door handle to open, but that doesn't work =/
One thing to note, when I do those to actions at once, you don't feel that 'open' click or clunk when the latch should release from the nader bolt. So the impact is probably holding the latch shut on the bolt is seems.
I feel like I'm gonna have to cut open the sheet metal and get to the latching mechanism... But even then, I don't know if there is much I can do to get the latch to release...