outside door handle stuck

[davintosh]

Originally Posted by GS416

I have joined the "broken door carrier" ranks. Just curious, does anyone have any idea of what type of time frame we're roughly talking about in regards to the indoor latch being inoperable as well? My outside latch went about 2 weeks ago and I'm really not going to have the free time to address this for probably another week or so. BTW, great post, great forum. Thanks in advance.

Just to clarify, your outside door handle stopped working first, and now the inside handle doesn't work as well? If so, that's a bad deal, because it will be difficult if not impossible to get the door panel off in that state without damaging something. It looks like you live in a place that might be having cold weather; any chance you washed the car recently and something inside is just frozen, preventing the inside handle from working? Get it inside with some heat on it to see if you can at least get the door open.

I just read through some of the earlier posts in this thread and found this one that mentioned needing to take it to the dealer to get it opened & fixed. That may not be the only option though; I had a similar problem with my e32 when the door lock actuator failed with the door deadlocked, and was able to get it open by cutting a hole in the door panel. I had to source new vinyl for the door panel to cover it up afterward, but it got me in there.