Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:03:30 GMT From: "Dexter J" <lamealameadingdongnospamlamelame.org> Subject: Re: SAAB 9000 CDE door lock problems
Salutations: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:09:16 -0000, Mr Mike Nospam <Mikenospamspam.co.uk> wrote: > On my SAAB the offside rear door won't open. > > Here are some symtoms: > o From outside the handle moves properly, but doesn't open the door. > > o From inside the handle moves properly, but doen't open the door, but I > can hear > the mechanism towards the rear of the door moving, so some linkages are > connected. > > o The up/down lock button is not properly connected to what it should be > connected to. > > The trickiness is that as I can't open the door, I can't take the inner > door > panel off to see what is wrong. > > Any suggestions on how to open the door or how to remove the inner door > panel with the door closed? > > Thanks, > > Mike You know what? That may be trickier than it at first sounds. Particularly if you and the 9000 don't don't want to be sporting at a tatty seal for the rest of your motoring lives together. I'll bet the rod is probably off the little arm on the mechanism on the door (it's rattling when you move the handle - and like many things in a SAAB - that can't be good). My best guess would be to try to get a 1/4 inch slim-jim down on the inside of the glass - use a bit of baby powder or rub it on some dry soap so it doesn't hang up on the rubber window seal. You would want to try to get it astern the lock tab heading towards the door jab against the glass by not forcing it down too hard and by using a slim-jim made of flat spring or a highly rigid 1/16 round wire bent at the end with a 1 inch hook. 1/8 is too much I think - it will bend the seal frame and leave a gap. The inside of the latch is about 8 inches down. You'll know you're scratching it as I don't remember anything else being attached on the door jab around it. You should be able to find it by sound, then finger around with the slim-jim until you hook on to the arm. You will want to close your eyes and kind of follow the end in. You may have to withdraw and arc the slim-jim a bit so it comes off the glass towards the inside of the car to as I think the bit you want to grab is towards the inside of the machine. However, some very clever Swede spent a lot of time thinking about just exactly how to stop you trying to open the doors on the 9000 in any thing other than the prescribed method and it may be that the latch arm is tucked in somewhere. They are a rum bunch that way. Anyway, if I remember correctly from my last adventure in the door panel, the rod is linked to a flat arm on a the inside side of the latch mechanism and will pull towards the front of the car to trip the latch. My unrelated adventure trying to fix a jumped power window cable was not as successful as I had hoped, but the heavy tie wraps did manage to keep the window closed using ring holes in the glass carrier after I messed up the job. Here's wishing you better luck, you would do well to tread gently while working in there. Think I'll pull my door panels in the spring and see about a little safety wire in there. Thanks for posting in. Best of luck. -- Radio Free Dexterdyne Top Tune o'be-do-da-day Universal Honey - Carey http://www.dexterdyne.org/888/124.RAM all tunes - no cookies no subscription no weather no ads no news no phone in - RealAudio 8+ Required - all the Time Dexter J's fab SAAB 900 for sale: http://www.dexterdyne.org/310.HTM
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