Acura11

I have a 93 coupe and the passenger side door is stuck shut. The door won't unlock and it will not open when you pull on the handle. I think the door handle is unlatched or one of the levers is broken off as you can hear metal on glass when the window is all the way down.

How am I supposed to fix this when I can't get the door panel off because the door won't open?? Is there a way to extend something in the door and hook it onto a lever to unlatch the door?

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'93 Legend LS Coupe 6-spd 165k
Pearl White/Ivory
Sold

'89 Legend LS Sedan Black Auto
Totalled 6-30-03. 222k

 

Cees-Jan

I would take of the other side door panel to have a mirror example and you can try with a steel ruller "Fishing"

(Like the tow-away company does)

LPB

If you cannot open the door by using either the outside or inside handle (after you unlock the cylinder by outside key or pull up on lock button) you need to ask your friendly police-person to "slim-jim" the door. The only other alternative is to remove the bumper and fender to access the door hinges, unbolt the door and pivot it out to gain enough access to remove the inner door panel. When you attempt to open the door using the inside handle, does the handle just "flop" with little or no resistance? If so, the cable tab has been broken off.

To have a plastic rod retainer to break for no apparant reason is very atypical. The only way that I can think of is that someone in the past bent the plastic hook to the point of creating a fracture and it now subsequently broke and the rod slowly worked itself loose.

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Acura11

Turns out that the rod that hooks to the outside door handle came lose and then one of my passengers rolled the window all the way down. The rod got stuck under the window and bent the rod at a complete 90 degree angle.

So after about 4 hours I managed to get the door open by jimmying it with a coat hanger and various other methods. I finally got the door open and I honestly don't know how I did it.

I tried to bend the rods back in place on the acutuator to the correct angles and everything works now but the door doesn't always want to shut. I guess I'll just pick up a new acutator at a junkyard.

Thanks for the help everyone!

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'93 Legend LS Coupe 6-spd 165k
Pearl White/Ivory
Sold

'89 Legend LS Sedan Black Auto
Totalled 6-30-03. 222k