Stuck door

[clapton924]

Sheesh, seems like the problems just won't stop with the accord lately.  As many of you know my passenger side window was busted into a couple weeks ago....had the window replaced.  Used the car over the weekend no problems...and I went out today and now the passenger side door will not open from the outside or inside.

The door will lock and unlock....I can hear the cable move inside the door when I pull the inside handle...and I can hear something move by the lock when I pull the outside handle....but the door will not open.  Even tried pulling both handles together.

Any ideas? The autoglass installer had to take the interior panel off to replace the glass and disconnect the interior handle cable....but the door worked fine 2 days ago....even if the interior handle cable came loose the outside handle should still work.

Ideas? Help!

[wtcii]

I would take it back to the guy who did the glass. As far as what is wrong, I have no clue.

[Mike]

Your best bet is to find a way to get the door panel off(not fun with the door closed) and see what's going on. Chances are something is loose or disconnected.

[wtcii]

Im not sure if that is possible. The clips that hold the bottom in are covered.

[Mike]

Im not sure if that is possible. The clips that hold the bottom in are covered.

Break and replace. The panel is going to have to come off in order to fix it.

[clapton924]

Umm...break and replace is not an option....door panels are a $300 part.   I've had the panels off before...don't think its possible to remove them with the door closed.  I'm going to call the autoglass people and play dumb.  I did hear some pieces of glass in the door....maybe one made its way into the door latch.

[Mike]

Not break the panel break the clips. There is no other way to get in there.

[Mike]

Only other thing I can think of that you can try is to get in the car and apply pressure to the door while some one else uses the outside handle. Maybe a little pressure will free the latch up. At the end of the day it has to be something the glass company fucked up so get a hold of them and see what they say. If they won't help you out call your insurance company and see what they say.

[timot_one]

I'd follow Bill's advice and do exactly what you said.  Just call the glass people and play dumb.  The glass guy may have fucked something up.  It's better to let them fix it instead of making things worse.

[CrazyCreashunz]

I'd follow Bill's advice and do exactly what you said.  Just call the glass people and play dumb.  The glass guy may have fucked something up.  It's better to let them fix it instead of making things worse.

+1

odds are glass they replaced got stuck and jammed the door lock, don't try to open window until the glass place looks at it!

[mnkyman]

If I remember correctly, the latch for the door has one piece that slides into one, and then a sort of latch that goes over that...if they forgot to do the latch part, the sliding pieces could have undone themselves over the last 2 days

[clapton924]

Update - Called the glass company...they sent some one out this morning.  The guy was able to get the door panel off without opening the door.  Somehow a piece of broken glass got into the latching mechanism.  Crazy luck....then again the guy before him didn't do a fantastic job of vacuuming out the broken glass.

[Mike]

Who was the glass company? A guy I work with has been going though a whole lot of BS with safelite autoglass. They came to replace his windshield, and have replaced the windsheild 3 times broke and replaced two trim pieces, and now his car is in the body shop getting the pillars around the windshield fixed from where they damaged it prying the trim off.

[clapton924]

I've been working with a local company called Accurate Auto-glass here in New Orleans.

[timot_one]

Moved to the appropriate forum.  Please try to keep technical discussion/threads out of the "General Discussion" forum.