It seems to me I have some of the most interesting problems here...
Basically, I drive my car over my 2 hour lunch break, everything works fine, driver door locks as intended. Central locking isn't working quite right... After school, I go to work, door locks work fine. I come out of work 5-ish hours later, doors unlock fine, but when I get into the car and close the door, it rebounds back open a few inches. By closing and holding the door in the 'closed' position, the door latch engaged fully, and the door was closed. I also noticed that the inside door latch would stay stuck open, as if there was ice on the innards of the door. The metal door handle was also frosty, I believe.
But, I get home, and with all the wonderful things my dad has engrained into me, I HAVE to have the door locked.
The door wouldn't lock with the key, so, without thinking, I opened the back door, unlocked and opened that, closed and then locked the front door through the back door, and then locked and closed the back door, without even thinking about trying to UNLOCK the car before I did so.
Driver door doesn't unlock. Key goes in, turns with no resistance, and doesn't do anything. My guess is something is frozen slightly off where it needs to be, not allowing the lock cylinder to engage properly and unlock.
Anyways, I need a way to unlock my door, and the lock situation is as follows:
Driver door lock is not an option with the key. Spins, doesn't do anything.
Front passenger door lock is not an option. Key doesn't go in at all, lock is damaged... I'm guessing someone swapped the lock cylinders in the front after the driver's side got damaged to the point where the key can't go in?
The trunk, however, does unlock.
BUT.
Central locking isn't working right.
So, my central locking situation: Driver door lock doesn't do anything to the central locking. Trunk lock doesn't do anything to the central locking.
However, I'm pretty sure that all the locks do get changed by the passenger side lock.
So, I need a way to unlock my car. Would a vacuum pump on the trunk line to the central locking pump be enough to engage the lock and unlock one of the inside doors? Or perhaps putting a known working actuator on the trunk lock mechanism?
Up for any ideas. I'd love to not have to tow it, or get ticketed for parking in the street when they plow after the next snow.
Basically, I drive my car over my 2 hour lunch break, everything works fine, driver door locks as intended. Central locking isn't working quite right... After school, I go to work, door locks work fine. I come out of work 5-ish hours later, doors unlock fine, but when I get into the car and close the door, it rebounds back open a few inches. By closing and holding the door in the 'closed' position, the door latch engaged fully, and the door was closed. I also noticed that the inside door latch would stay stuck open, as if there was ice on the innards of the door. The metal door handle was also frosty, I believe.
But, I get home, and with all the wonderful things my dad has engrained into me, I HAVE to have the door locked.
The door wouldn't lock with the key, so, without thinking, I opened the back door, unlocked and opened that, closed and then locked the front door through the back door, and then locked and closed the back door, without even thinking about trying to UNLOCK the car before I did so.
Driver door doesn't unlock. Key goes in, turns with no resistance, and doesn't do anything. My guess is something is frozen slightly off where it needs to be, not allowing the lock cylinder to engage properly and unlock.
Anyways, I need a way to unlock my door, and the lock situation is as follows:
Driver door lock is not an option with the key. Spins, doesn't do anything.
Front passenger door lock is not an option. Key doesn't go in at all, lock is damaged... I'm guessing someone swapped the lock cylinders in the front after the driver's side got damaged to the point where the key can't go in?
The trunk, however, does unlock.
BUT.
Central locking isn't working right.
So, my central locking situation: Driver door lock doesn't do anything to the central locking. Trunk lock doesn't do anything to the central locking.
However, I'm pretty sure that all the locks do get changed by the passenger side lock.
So, I need a way to unlock my car. Would a vacuum pump on the trunk line to the central locking pump be enough to engage the lock and unlock one of the inside doors? Or perhaps putting a known working actuator on the trunk lock mechanism?
Up for any ideas. I'd love to not have to tow it, or get ticketed for parking in the street when they plow after the next snow.
