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door lock not latching

lindsay39

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hello,
Due to a sticking door handle on the outside of my Porsche Boxster S (Year 2000) I removed the handle and removed the rust from the spindle. When I put it back together everything was fine. A few days later the door was very difficult to open from outside or inside because the latch would not release. I assumed I had damaged the door handle electronics and got a replacement from a scrap yard. when I put this on the car it was found that the door would not latch. I disconnected the replacement handle and still the door will not latch. The door is currently held closed by rope. I favour that the Lock electronics has gone faulty. Has anyone come across anything like this?
 
The door handle only operates a microswitch to tell the window to drop to facilitate the door opening - so no complicated electronics on that.
Clearly you have not fitted something right, the latch lasts a lifetime but you havnt supplied enough information in order to help you, can you describe what happens when you push the door to, can you operate the latch with a screwdriver in the slot, is the lock tightened up, is the cable or the rod from the handle jammed in the open position so the catch freely turns to lock but doesn't actually catch?

Perhaps the best thing to do is test the latch with a screwdriver - if the latch closes and doesn't click into the lock position then either the rod is jammed or the internal cable is fitted wrongly and is holding the lock in the unlock position
 
Many thanks for the reply. In the end I took the car to Performance Porsche and they identified that I had not put the rod from the handle into the black plastic lock sleeve far enough. pretty stupid of me. Anyway they only charged me a tenner.
 

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