permanently locked car door

[mollykins]

As you may know, I went to see harry potter at the weekend. After it finished, my friends mum gave us a lift a home. However the door on my side wouldn't open, and still won't!

What could cause this? . . .

. . . there is no childlock mechanism, we tried locking it and unlocking it. And opening it from in/outside. it's a complete mystery . . . . . In the end, instead of dropping me off at the end of my road, they took me up into my driveway, so that I could get out of the other side safely, without having to walk out into a main road . . .

[redcrx]

if it needs all that palava just to close it then it really needs someone who knows a bit of mechanics to fix it, thats if the owner wants to bother that is.

Even if we told you what it was i cant see how that will help.

ps, i dont know whats wrong but it doesnt seem like a simple job

[EcclesCake]

"Count, I got in ok. But TBH they're dodgey anyway. Before you could close them properly, you have to make sure you click the outside bit of the door into the right place, else it won't close at all, so I did that, and now it won't open . . . "

Well the lock has clearly been giving bother and it was only a question of time before it gave up the ghost!!!

[society]

LOL @ "are you living in the car."

[mollykins]

I got out of the door on the other side. I saw him in the sixth form common room at lunch and he told me that it was still locked.

Propably is the dodgey lock mechanism giving up if there's no other logical explanation.

[society]

Molly, in cold like this everything freezes up. The lock probably just need a bit of oiling.

[redcrx]

just hope that they dont start proceedings to recover cost of damage from you. Watch out for letters from their insurers

[honky-tonk]

Could be a loose or broken cable and rod.

[mollykins]

redcrx they don't technically know where I live. There's a long sweeping driveway that runs along the front of several houses, and they'd already gone by the time I was approaching my house so they couldn't have seen which one i went to. Anyway my house has a name not number, so even if they did manage to somehow see they wouldn't know the name or number.

[mollykins]

And even though i'm slightly taller than the bushes, i'm not even sure that from a car they could se where I was or what direction I was heading, you see there's the road, the pavement then a 5ft hedge with gaps at each end where the driveway which goes along the front gardens of the houses in my row and they dropped me off the other side of the hedge and it was dark . . .

[redcrx]

ah but you know the lad at college. Presumably it wouldnt take him long to find out who you are

[mollykins]

I've known him for a while, but how would he find out my exact address?

[mollykins]

No, I gotta have tea then go to cadets . . .

[boxtops]

I can't get in my front door at the moment without giving the bottom of it a hefty kick. Does this fall into the same category?

[horseshoes]

I've just come back on here after my computer has been at the computer mending shop; I realise what I've been missing. LOL LOL LOL.

[whiskeryron]

Molly,Molly, Molly. OMG They're having you on. The closing mechanism on a car door looks like a sort of upside down U, if that is not in the correct posiition to engage the post on the bodywork it will never work correctly it needs WD 40 & repositioning. Hope this helps.Ron.