Editing Locks (section)

==Properly Documented Fix==

I know someone's covered this before, but when I needed the help to fix mine, all I found was blurry pictures.

So here is my guide on how to fix these little nightmares. 

*1 Take it out of the car  a bit of prying and pulling, some plastic clips and 3 screws. 

*2 You can bend this tab that I have highlighted in blue, back to its original position as the picture below shows. 

[[Image:lock_bentthetabbackup.jpg]]

HOWEVER, give it a few hours, minutes, days, maybe weeks if you don't use that door too often, and it will be bent back to the non working position again. I know this because I did it, and within 6 tries of it, it bent back to non working position again.

*3 My second attempt shows what happens when the bent tab gets to frail, it literally snapped clean off!! 

[[Image:lock_tabsnapedoff.jpg]]

So, I had to think and get creative with stuff in the garage to fix this. 

*4  The picture bellow shows in the LIGHT BLUE outline, where the tab should be so everything work ok, The YELLOW, is where your tab will be if your doors don't unlock. When you unlock your door, the GREEN bit slides over the back side of the RED bit and makes the door ready for unlock. HOWEVER, if the red bit is not turned CLOCKWISE in the right position so the green bit can slide over, you get stuck and your door wont unlock!! 

[[Image:lock_yellobits.jpg]]


*5 Finally, I've outlined in the GREEN the bit of metal I improvised with, to make this thing never ever break again. Simple piece of metal, with a screw to hold it in place, the screw can be up to 1cm in length and will not affect to operation of the lock mechanism. 

[[Image:lock_themoddedpart.jpg]]


Good luck with fixing your locks!! I hope I have helped in some way. 

- '''R31_747 
Andy Christou'''