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

[Mike Miller]

Any chance a "slim jim" or other external mechanism would work. I've 
seen my local sheriff open a door in well under a minute.

--mike

On 3/12/2015 11:19 AM, chris chambers wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> 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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