Hi all, my outside door handle is broken on the lh passenger side and someone decided it would be a good idea to put the child lock on.. So now i cant open the door from the inside or out....

Does anyone know an effective way to get the door back open? (without destroying it). ive tried to get a fork to disengage the child lock but doesnt seem to be working.. Grrr ive even got a new door handle to install on it but i had trouble ages ago gettin the trim off.. almost felt like it was glued to the damn window seal.

Any help would be appreciated.

Andrew

once u have all the screws out of the trim the top needs to be lifted upwards to unhook the rubber seal. make sure u take the quarter glass trim off the inside too.
have a look at your other door trim dont ef have screws visible when u open the door on the front edge?

also if u have to wreck the trim to remove it u can always swap the xr cloth insert into a gli door trim to make them match, easy enough to swap

I can only get to about 1/2 of the screws to get the trim off... i might just have to source a spare door trim if worse comes to worse lol. So annoying. Yeah the first time i tried getting the trim off i tried lifting up the top to unhook the seal but it actual felt like it was glued on....

When my patience level is at a good state i shall retry..

Thanks for the tip

Is the exterior handle plastic all the way through and totally rooted?
May be able to run a large diameter drill or holesaw through the handle and get hold of the rod inside the door through the hole.

Yeah the plastic part that clips onto the metal rod has snapped so it aint working at all. ill see how i got tonight or tommorrow arvo.
Thanks for the suggestions