Last week I repaired the leaking seals on the sound insulation in both rear doors. No problems, thanks to all the threads on this amazing site. Both doors worked well afterwards opening just fine, using inside and outside handles. But, I had not activated the door locks with the key until this past weekend. The rear passenger door is now acting as if it is still locked, even though the door lock knob is in the fully up position. The key raises and lowers all 4 door lock knobs. The lock knob will raise from the down position when the inner handle is pulled. There is normal resistance when pulling either the inner or outside handle. They both (inside/outside handles) just act like the door is still locked, in that the door does not unlatch and open,even with the door lock knob in the up position.
Now with the above said...last evening, I somehow got the door to open. It sounds stupid, but I don't know exactly what I did any different than I had done a dozen times prior. I was just pulling on the inner handle several times, pushing on the door, and sometimes pulling and pushing the lock knob up and down. Some combination must have somehow done the trick.
I have left the door open until can further investigate the problem. I can take the inner panel off again, now, and look to see what is going on, but I don't know if I will see anything.
Does anyone here have any ideas as to what I may have done incorrectly in the initial repair? I did not mess with the locking mechanism at all to my knowledge. The inner handle was replaced correctly to the activating wire as far as I know. It feels normal, and opened the door just fine many times until I activated the locking mechanism for the door. Is it possible the locking mechanism has just coincidentally broken just at the time I had the door apart. Does/can the locking mechanism fail in this manner?
Thanks for you thoughts and help.
Mark
Now with the above said...last evening, I somehow got the door to open. It sounds stupid, but I don't know exactly what I did any different than I had done a dozen times prior. I was just pulling on the inner handle several times, pushing on the door, and sometimes pulling and pushing the lock knob up and down. Some combination must have somehow done the trick.
I have left the door open until can further investigate the problem. I can take the inner panel off again, now, and look to see what is going on, but I don't know if I will see anything.
Does anyone here have any ideas as to what I may have done incorrectly in the initial repair? I did not mess with the locking mechanism at all to my knowledge. The inner handle was replaced correctly to the activating wire as far as I know. It feels normal, and opened the door just fine many times until I activated the locking mechanism for the door. Is it possible the locking mechanism has just coincidentally broken just at the time I had the door apart. Does/can the locking mechanism fail in this manner?
Thanks for you thoughts and help.
Mark