How To Open Driver's Door?

[jimbowley]

mk1 year 2000.

 

The key jammed as I was locking it. Couldn't remove key from barrel. Forced it and broke something inside, the barrel now turns in the door, and the key comes out now.  I assume lock is deadlocked now?  It won't unlock when I use key in passenger door.

 

I've taken my passenger door card off, as practice and because I was going to use the lock barrel.

 

I'm pretty sure I can't get the drivers off, because of the door jamb stopping me getting screwdrivers in to lever the yellow clips, also car trim stopping the card being pulled away from the door, and finally there is an innacessible cross head screw on the door edge.

 

Anyway, if I cut the door card away in the lock area, what do I do then?

 

I'm looking at the passenger side and can hardly see inside, let alone get to anything????

 

help!

[seatkid]

Surely it has central locking?

 

Doesnt locking/unlocking from the passenger side or tailgate unlock the door and release all deadlocks?

[BrianH]

The bolts that hold the door catch and handle in place are on the side of the door - if you look on the passenger one you should be able to see this. Theres a fair chance that your problem has started from broken wires in the door someone else fairly recently had similar issues with the drivers door. I think if i remember correctly they got breakdown to come out who manged to get the door open with a bit of persistence with the key. If yours is just spinning its probabbly broken the paddle off the back of it.

 

It may be worth trying to disconnect the battery (keep one of the other doors open!) and reconnecting it (I've known that to cause the locks to move on other cars before) or trying to open the door with the battery disconnected from inside.

 

If you put the key back in you may find that the lock barrel can be withdrawn if the paddle has broken apart enough (the bits you can see here > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-GENUINE-GALAXY-SHARAN-ALHAMBRA-DOOR-LOCK-REPAIR-KIT-/140480263231?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item20b546b43f)

 

If you can get the barrel out (keep the key inside it else you will lose all the tumblers!) then you may be able to turn the bit in the door catch mechanism that is normally turned by the key.

 

Only other thing you might be able to do is find the broken wire and bridge it if there is one, then try using the passenger door to unlock it. Assuming its not the door catch itself thats broken that is.

[jimbowley]

Today I got the door panel off by hacking off the area around the screw and then yanking hard.

 

Then I went to work on the passenger side and dissasembled the door lock to learn how it works. This pretty much confirmed that I'd have no chance at getting the handle out on the drivers side. 

 

I decided I needed to get the barrel out the way so I could get a screwdriver into where the paddle goes. So  tried drillling it out, but after a while my drill snapped off.   

 

Tomorrow I'm going to attack the inside metal work with an angle grinder. To try and gain some access to the area.

[jimbowley]

I didn't use the angle grinder in the end.

 

As I was trying to dissasemble the barrel from the inside using a screwdriver and force I managed to turn the mechanism and unlock the door. The paddle wasn't broken at the lock end, so it's drive at the barrel end must have been broken.

 

Anyway, new problem = new topic :)

[BrianH]

have a close look at the window switches (the module plugs in next to the barrel). Its possible one has broken up and become caught