[s-cars] Can't open driver's back door

[chris chambers]

Paul,

unfortunately I am familiar with this situation.

In my case my right rear door wouldn't unlock, and because of this wouldn't open.
I was never able to open the door. After wrecking the car and damaging the door
I used a cut off wheel and cut into the door from the outside to gain access to the latch mechanism
.
In my case I didn't want to damage my black door panel, so I cut the damaged door skin. 
In your case you may be forced to sacrifice your door panel in order to gain access, and even then if I recall
correctly you won't be able to get to the latch.

I may be able take some photos of all of the steel Audi has in place to protect the latch. I don't think you are getting in easily.
I can't do it tonight as the car is no longer stored at my house.


Good luck
Chris



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On Wed, 3/11/15, weski at verizon.net <weski at verizon.net> wrote:

 Subject: [s-cars] Can't open driver's back door
 To: S-Car-List at audifans.com
 Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 10:18 PM
 
 Greetings S-Heads
 
 Patient is my 95 S6 sedan and a couple weeks ago I needed to
 put some 
 things in the back seat and could not get the door
 open.  It was -16f so 
 I figured it might literally be frozen so I just tossed my
 stuff in the 
 front door and onto the passenger seat. Fast forward to this
 past 
 weekend and after the car sat in my garage for 7 days I had
 a dead 
 battery.  I went to open the driver's side back door to
 put my trickle 
 charge on the battery and was reminded that the door won't
 open.
 
 Long story short, I got the battery charged by leaning over
 the front 
 seats to open the rear seat bottom and put the charger on.
 Now I need to 
 figure out how to get the door open so I can get to
 repairing it.
 
 I tried both the exterior and interior handles and both move
 but don't 
 have any affect or noticeable sound.  When I lock and
 unlock the car 
 with the central locking system I can't see the lock knob
 for the back 
 door move at all.  The other 3 doors and trunk work as
 expected with the 
 central locking system.
 
 Does anyone have any ideas or tricks to open a back door in
 this 
 situation?  I'm thinking there isn't any way to remove
 the interior 
 panel while the door is closed - is there?  Is my best
 option to unbolt 
 the front edge of the door from the hinges?
 
 TIA,
 
 Paul
 95 S6 w/261k miles and a stubborn door
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