hello and welcome back patrick
contraptions here with my 2004 chevy
silverado i have a very interesting
problem today i've never encountered
this before and we're going to try to
figure out how to fix it so the problem
is i'm on the passenger side of the
truck and this door is unlocked but it
will not open the door is fully closed
so i have no access to the
inside of the truck from the side and
there is no key
on this side so i can't unlock it
manually the electronics locks don't
seem to do anything so somehow i have to
figure out how to get this door open and
functional again because right now i
can't open it from the inside and i
can't open it from the outside which is
a huge inconvenience when um
working with this truck
so i've watched some videos on it i've
tried to do some research on it
unfortunately there's not a whole lot of
very clear information on a direct
approach for this problem
so i've kind of decided that i'm going
to have to make it up as i go
and i think a good spot starting point
is to just go on the inside and see how
much of the paneling i can actually get
off without physically doing damage to
the truck i definitely don't want to
cause damage to my truck that's just
gonna cost me more money and it's going
to in the long run take a lot more time
to fix so ideally get the door open get
the panel off on the inside and then
replace what's ever wrong once i get the
door functional so let's get
started what i have is i have the window
down now i've got the panel as loose as
i can get it
and i'm going to try i notice there's a
bar
kind of right down in here for the lock
that actually actuates over here to lock
the door and unlock it i'm going to try
to push that
manually and we'll see if it does
anything
push that back
nope nothing there
um
it doesn't even seem to register it and
bring it
forward hang on
we got it
okay so
sweet
um
door's open now
i didn't think that was going to work
but let me see if i can show this to you
here
so here's what i think was happening i
was able to reach in from the top
of the door up here and move this rod
now what i realized once i did that is
that you can actually take off
this cover it just snaps out and that
rod goes to your lock mechanism so
what i think was happening on this truck
was the lock mechanism just
somehow got in a state where it needed
to move further than normal to unlock
so all i did was i pushed this forward
and the door unlocked itself so that's
why neither handle worked because the
lock was actually engaged so i
disengaged a lock and it seems to be
working now so i'm going to put it back
together
and we'll see to go from there
as you can see the door is now open so
we pretty much
resolved our issue
i think that was all it was was the lock
mechanism maybe got a little frozen and
got stuck in the locked position so i
took off that lock cover or what i did
was i went through the top you could
just take off the lock cover it'd be a
lot easier just move that back and
forward unlocked itself and now
everything seems to be functional so
hopefully that's it um if something does
come up i'll do a follow-up video but
for right now we're good the door is
working it's opening and latching as it
should
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a fantastic day