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Door won't open

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sunstate850owner
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Year and Model: 1995 850 sedan
Location: United States

Door won't open

Post by sunstate850owner »

The last time I locked the doors on my 850 the passenger rear door would not unlock. Not with the remote, not by pulling up the lock button and not by using the inside door handle. All the other doors work fine. I can't get inside the door to see what is wrong because I can't get access to the lower screws that hold the door panel on with the door in the closed position. Any ideas?

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Post by MadeInJapan »

Pull the plastic piece off around the inside door handle...there's a screw in there and unscrew it (torx but size, I'm not sure)...now with a flashlight see what's disconnected. I bet there's a wire there that's come off...you should be able to grab it with some needle nose or something and pull it to open the door. I'm going from memory as to how the doors are but if things aren't opening at all, I'd say the door handle is very loose.
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