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Hi all, i have an r33 gtst and my passenger door wont open i had a mechanic look at it and he said that the latch that actually holds onto the car from the door is most likely broken (its on the second click so the door moves a bit) but he said i will most likely have to cut the door trim off which i really dont want to do, so has anyone out there had any problems with this? any help with be good!

Cheers Scott.

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It'd be a very tedious task trying to open the door by somehow hooking onto and yanking the internal latches (especially if they are broken).

Forced Door trim removal might be the only option mate.

Edited by MSPEC33

how about putting the window down and using a metal strip to push whatever it holds on to. Maybe you get lucky and the door will open. A mate's of mine got into the same situation on his civic and in the end the workshop got lucky and they could open the door this way. Turns out to be a bad power lock device thingy. He dumped it so the door becomes a normal non-power locking version.

same thing happened to me, only way is to cut the door trim, and get in there with a screw driver and a hammer and smash the locking mech up till it lets go, very frustrating problem but when you see how crap those locking mechanisms are you understand

this happened to a couple of Kia's I've worked on over the years, we found that the screws that held the lock to the door would fall out and get jammed in a bad place( inside the lock), to get the door open(2 person job) we'd make sure the door was unlocked : ie hold the snipper knob up in the open postion hold both inside and outside handles open, remove workboots find the strongest place on your door trim to give a shove with the heel of your foot and try to jar/force the door open. Don't try and Bruce Lee the thing open as you'll only screw your trim.

Failing that try to pop the end of your trim closest to the lock and see exactly whats stopping it workingyou may be able to pry the trim away far enough that you can get in there without totally stuffing your trim up, hope it works out.

Cheers Matt.

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