Driver's door won't open from outside???

[Lonewolf]

Went out the other day and used central locking to open up, everything opened okay, but the driver's door wouldn't open from the outside., and yet the passenger let me in from the inside handle which still works!? WTF 

As per Google search, I have tried opening and slamming said door shut - which seems to have worked for others - and also disconnected the battery and reconnected, but to no avail..........................

Any ideas?

[Dizzie]

the tiny erm, latch bit? bit that goes from the mech onto the handle has most likely popped out. I've had this happen in the cold weather before. I think moisture gets between them and then freezes and the ice pushes it out. I superglued it back in and never had a problem again.

With the door open hold the handle out and undo slowly (not all the way out!) the T20 torx screw from behind the plastic grommet. Eventually the handle won't go back in. It's around this point you'll be able to wiggle and remove the rear part of the door handle with the Key hole on. You'll see the bit that needs to be refitted then. I tend to fit mine around the middle of the adjustment notches.

The way that part is held in is with a sort of disc with cutouts on that when you unscrew the T20 screw it rotates the disc allowing the cutouts to line up with the lugs on the part you want to remove. If you remove that T20 completely it'll be a nightmare to get back together and will probably result in a near full door strip down to fix 

[Lonewolf]

Thanks, Dizzie. 

The cold damp weather here in France has been the culprit then!   I'll take a look at the part you mentioned and see what's what.

Merci, mon ami!

[opel]

Yer I would say its the little cable from the handle to the door lock

[bonny]

This bit 

[Lonewolf]

Excellent, that photo's very useful!  Thanks   

How do you remove the outer part of the handle as in your photo?

[Kelvin1977]

Open door there is a plastic cap remove it then if I remember its a torq bit loosen and it just slides out

[Lonewolf]

Cool!  Thanks Kelvin

[Dizzie]

just like I said in my post...

[bonny]

just like I said in my post...

like he said in his post 
but a pic is always helpfull  scroll down the page till you come to it!

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?1015107