You are definitely onto something with the soft use. It def puts less force on that joint. Also and most critical: pay attention to if it is frozen and doing force it.

The DLA has a design defect that it can freeze solid fin one literal drop of condensation. Only thing your can do is drive into the inner door warms enough to defrost or you can use a hair drier into the jaws of the latch.

If DLA freezes and you tug once on the door handle it’s basically over.


–awr–

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