Zafira door won't open

Zafira door won't open

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ColinM50

Original Poster:

2,634 posts

176 months

Tuesday 10th April 2012
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Four year old grandaughter, little sweetheart that she is, tried to open d.i.l's rear door from outside at exactly the moment the electric plipper was pressed. Result is the door's stuck and can't be opened from either inside or outside. You can hear it lock and unlock on the plipper, just won't open on the handle.

Tried opening the window and removing the door card but I think the door has to be open to take off the card, can't get the window winder off either.

Any ideas or suggestions please?

JAHetfield

443 posts

150 months

Tuesday 10th April 2012
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Remove window rubbers, get a wire coat hanger and start fishing!

v46m4n

150 posts

153 months

Wednesday 11th April 2012
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The door card will come off with door closed (not the easiest job, but possible)

ColinM50

Original Poster:

2,634 posts

176 months

Wednesday 11th April 2012
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Fixed it. Seems it's a common problem with Zafiras, Astras, Merivas etc. And it's an electrical problem, nothing to do with the locking mechanism at all.

There's a loom that goes into the bottom of each door for the central locking and deadlock setting and the cables inside are notoriously prone to breaking. So just a case of unplugging the connector at the bottom of the B pillar and soldering in a short new piece of cable, plug it back in and Robert is indeed your father's brother.

Of course I took the door card off before I found that out so now got a couple of hours work to put it back together.

Thanks for the advice though