Front passenger door.

[iceman2010]

Hi all, our front passenger door won’t open from inside or outside on frv.  Any ideas what the problem would be and how I can get it open to pull the door card off?

[Trevor]

You may be able to remove the door card from inside if you shuffle the seat either backwards or forwards and undo the screws you can locate
The rest of the card should unclip from the pop clips in the door

[iceman2010]

I did manage to get the door panel off in the end.  Waiting for a replacement lock to arrive before smashing off the old one.

[ec5780]

I've had that happened once or twice. I think it's when the deadlocks get jammed/refuse to unlock.

 

However in my case it has sorted itself out.

 

I have a suspicion that a vertical jolt to the door e.g. when being lifted up or put down on a lift ramp it somehow seems to make it work again temporarily. I tried bashing it from underneath with a hammer and this didn't help.

 

The most common thing that happens frequently to mine is that I have is that the front passenger door doesn't lock automatically with the central locking, but the manual interior locking tab works.