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

Tue Jan 27 17:35:03 PST 2009

Thanks so much everyone!
Because of (new) family reasons I'll have to delay my tear-down, but  
I'll be sure to follow-up on what the haps is.
Jason

On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Fred Munro wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I welcome any ideas!
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> Paul
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> 95.5 S6A
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> 99 A6A
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> 97 Land Rover XD (makes the Audis look reliable)
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> To: pcschulz at comcast.net, jsedmak at mac.com
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:42:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada  
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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.
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> Dave
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> From: Peter Schulz <pcschulz at comcast.net>
> To: JASON A SEDMAK <jsedmak at mac.com>
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 9:25 am
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> Jason:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> -Peter
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> 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:
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>>  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.
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>> 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
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> 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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