[s-cars] 95 S6 door not opening from inside

[Fred Munro]

If you have water in the latch mechanism, it can freeze in cold weather and when you release the catch by lifting the door handle, the spring on the latch isn't strong enough to lift the catch off the door pin. The corollary is you get the door open but it won't latch closed.

Thaw out the lock mechanism and spray the guts liberally with a good water displacing lube. In severe cases you may have to remove the lock to get all the water out and everything lubed up (I had to do that with the drivers door on my S4). These locks come with plastic water deflectors/anti theft covers, but they often seem to go missing for some reason - one is gone on my S6 and I have the odd water issue with the lock. It usually isn't a problem until the temperature gets below -20 though.

Fred Munro
'97 S6


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I don't think it's a cable issue either.  I have a similar problem where the door doesn't unlock or open when it's cold outside, not always, but frequently.   I haven't dived into the door to troubleshoot (primarily due to no heated garage and the sub-zero temps we've been experiencing here in New England...), but the door works fine on most days.  If it doesn't open, neither the outside or inside handles make any difference - the door stays shut/locked.   My guess it may have something to do with the actuator on the power door locks, but then again I don't know how the cold could affect it.  It's the rear passanger door in my case.  The locking/unlocking of the power locks make no difference. 



I welcome any ideas! 



Paul 

95.5 S6A 

99 A6A 

97 Land Rover XD (makes the Audis look reliable) 




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 The cable can't be the issue, otherwise he wouldn't be able to open the door from the inside handle. 

Dave 


  


  

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From: Peter Schulz <pcschulz at comcast.net> 
To: JASON A SEDMAK <jsedmak at mac.com> 
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Jason: 

Pop the cover off the door handle with a thin bladed screw driver. 
Remove the two philips screws holding the handle to the door card. 
Slide the black trim plate out when your remove the handle. 
I think another philips screw secures the inner door latch to the door. 
slide the door latch forward and out. 

If you don't see the end of the cable, use a coat hanger or something 
similar to fish for it. 
There should be a square shaped metal clip that holds the cable 
jacket to the latch. 
If it wasn't installed properly ( supposed to capture the cap on the 
cable jacket in a small slot on the latch) , the cable can come loose. 
Fish out the cable, re attach the the cable hook to the back of the 
latch, install the square clip properly - 
then installation is reverse of removal. 

If the clip is missing, you may have to remove the entire door card ( 
and hope that it's still inside the door) to access it. 
(the clip is something that I put on my list of things to get when at 
a pick n pull or junkyyard) 


-Peter 

At 11:36 PM 1/26/2009 -0700, JASON A SEDMAK wrote: 
>Sean, 
>Was checking out your thread cuz today mine did almost the same thing 
>- yeah it was really cold out: 
> 
>   Outside handle goes up then sticks up, I push it down and realize it 
>no longer opens door, I open rear door and reach up front and open 
>front door from the inside, door opens and closes as it should.  But 
>now my outside handle does't work. 
> 
>Think you could help me decipher based on what you just went through? 
>Did you figure out your central locking problems? Did you have to 
>fully remove the window frame carrier? 
>TIA, 
>Jason 
> 
> 
> 
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-Peter Schulz 
Chelmsford Ma, USA 
http://www.naaclub.org/ 

1995.5 S6 Avant Emerald/Ecru 
1995.5 S6 Avant Silver/Platinum 
1991 90 20v Q Red 
1991 CQ silver  (eS2 recipient) 

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