[DML] Re: Door Locks Locking Up?

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You figured out what I have been trying to tell most people on the
DML. You MUST have the door closed in the "second" latching position.
BOTH LATCHES MUST be in 2nd position to lock. If you try to lock the
door with either latch NOT in 2nd position you bend, stretch, and
force things out of adjustment. The doors are NOT SUPPOSED to be able
to be locked unless you are in 2nd position. If it won't lock easily
it is trying to tell you that. Before you can do the door adjustments
you need to have the doors close properly. You CANNOT compensate for
old, flat door seals by adjusting the locking anchor pins. Lockzilla
says it cannot compensate for out-of-adjustment doors and bad
solenoids so you should have known it would not "fix" your problems.
As you close the door SLOWLY you can hear and feel the latches as they
catch in the first locking position and then (if everything is
adjusted correctly) the 2nd locking position. Slamming the door will
not make it work, in fact that is how you can jam it. The other thing
I see all too often is that the head of the anchor pins hit the door.
This pushes the door foward or back as the case may be making it hard
to open and close the door. The other thing I see is that the door
guides strike the pins. If the pins are adjusted right they should go
right up the middle of the guides and not even touch them. It is a
little tricky to get it right because the doors close in an ARC. It
may take some trial-and-error to get it right but once you get it you
tighten that pin real tight and it won't move.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Robert Moseley" <videobob@xxxx> wrote:
> Your door seals have you locked in.
> Read more to find out what I mean......
> 
> Many of us have suffered from frozen door locks.
> My drivers side door has always worked fine, but the passenger door
> from time to time would sometimes lock, and would need to be flipped
> back and forth a few times before you could get it.
> I thought that $440 on a Lock-ZILLA with a remote would have solved
> the problem but it had no effect.
> All it did was lock me out from remote!
> 
> This time it locked up good.
> I haven't been able to get in the passenger side for weeks.
> Today I had to do something about it.
> So from the inside I began to rip the door apart.





To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address:
moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx

For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com

To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/