Drivers door lock rod - sticking

[Deefadog]

Cheers, so how many rods & how many clips are there?

[monzablue16v]

There is 1 thick rod from the switch (not in diagram) to a plastic clip on the latch arrowed 2 in this diagram
And 1 thinner rod from the locking pin/knob to the same plastic clip marked 1 in this diagram
BTW 3 is for your internal door handle for opening the door.
take your latch out and you'll see what I'm on about


Dead easy with new bits and doesn't take long to do just fiddly.

[Deefadog]

Your a star!

Cheers

[Deefadog]

Had a really good look at this on the weekend, and as far as i acn see it's not the rods that are the problem, but the actual metal leaver on the door lock, i must have bent it I tried bending it but it is still intermitant, it gets stuck sometimes!

Anyone got a spare drivers lock/catch? (i am not sure what this is called)!

Also it has the plastic arm atached to it which is connected to the two rods, how can i remove this plastic bit, or is it part of the catch?

[Deefadog]

ok, got this sorted at last, new rod, clip and central locking solonoid !

only one problem, the car locks when it's supposed to open and vise versa. It's the 5 wire one btw

is it just a simple matter of swapping the leads around? i mean is there a wire for locking and a wire for unlocking? and i have them the wrong way around?

Cheers

Note to self - this was suppoosed to be a 10 minute job - Arggghhhhhh 

[Judderi]

yes you should just be able to swap the wires over. One gives a signal on lock and the other on unlock. Get the multimeter on it if y not sure which is which.

[Deefadog]

cheers, yes it was the wrong way around

take care

[BobbyT]

i had a similar problem, mine wouldnt unlock or lock sometimes, had to play around for ages, in the end i had mine de-locked, and the door pins removed, works fine now using the alarm key fob!