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ok, it's happened to all of us, you pull on your door handle
but the door won't open, but at least in this case, when you pull the inside
handle, the door opens, so we can get to it to see what's wrong, so we'll just take
the panel out, and granted they're all slightly different, but we start by
removing all the little screws that we can find, you remove the screw then go
inside here and remove this screw, then the whole assembly just pops right out,
then unplug the electrical connection move it out of the way, pop out any of
these plastic connectors you find, and don't forget to look under the vehicle
because your often going to find screws there too, then as crazy as it sounds, grab the
bottom pull it out, and then it un-pops and with a little twisting, it comes off the
top, like this, and most cars have this plastic it's just to keep water from
getting in and ruining the door, just kind of peel it out of the way, and
now we can see inside to see what the problem is, it's all on the arms that pull
the latch inside here, now in some cases we get lucky and these little plastic
pieces break, and the rods fall off or come out of position, but not in this
case, when I look inside here I can see the top pink piece and the bottom red
piece, they're solid it hasn't fallen out, so it's the latch that's bad, now this
may be in older cars in 98, but it's still not old enough, in the olden days
those rods had threads on them and you could adjust them to make them looser or
tighter, but we can't do that, this thing needs a new latch, now unfortunately the
latch is an obsolete part according to Nissan, so they don't make it anymore so
we're going to have to try to figure out how to rig something, I got a small bolt
and I filed a U in it, so I can fit it over the rod, so the rod now pushes
further down, I'm going to slide that bolt on the rod and push it in under the arm,
as you can see now, the bolt is on top of the piece of plastic pushed on the rod
and that makes it look like the rod is longer, so it gives it more pull, but sure,
it is rigging it, but hey, necessity is the mother of invention, let's see if it
lets the door open and closed now, well here goes nothing, success,
now of course that little bolt might slide off, so I'm getting some of this jb weld quick,
I'm going mix up the epoxy, put some epoxy on it, and that'll keep it from
falling out of place, you just mix the two tubes up on a piece of cardboard, in
this case it's an old toilet roll, then you smear the epoxy like this on top of
the bolt, and let it dry for about an hour, and the bolt won't fall out, and sure
really you should replace the latch, but hey, if you can't buy one, you might as
well as fix it so it works, then of course you put it all back together, snap
the door panel on, they just slide into place, then put all the pieces back in
and screw them on, snap the power switch on, and put it back in place, and screw it so
it doesn't come out, and screw all the other holders back in place on the
bottom of the door card, so next time your door closes but won't open again,
why not try to fix it like I did, because where there's a will there's always a
way, and remember if you've got any car questions just visit the Scotty Kilmer
channel and I'll answer them as soon as I'm done feeding these wild kitties that
live under the railroad bridge