[s-cars] RF door latch sticking

[Bill Mahoney]

Chris Latched~
>Paul,

>If his drawing doesn't help you, then you might want to know what was
>wrong with mine.

>The latch assembly has a spring inside it that does the latching.
>It gets corrodded and gummed up. Remove teh actual latch assembly from
>inside your door and soak it in transmission fluid.

>Yes that's right, soak it in transmission fluid. I had this problem
>with the driver's side latch on both of our 93 S4's. The fluid will
>clean up and lubricate the latch, but it might take an overnight
>soaking, in addition it helps if you activate the latch assembly by
>pulling on the cable a few times every hour or so.

OR 
(after trans removal;)
save the three hours it requires to take the door and latch apart and
reassemble and just spray my favourite new lubricant Boeshield
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000DD1DV/104-2528726-981
5947 into the latch mechanism liberally.  This stuff actually dines on
corrosion.  Rear doors, spray into the kidlocks too as the mechanism is
just below there IIRC. 
Give it a few minutes hours or days.. but I would bet it will work well
in many cases.  Boeshield is to WD40 as Sfest beer is to Budlight IME.
My .002 
Bill m