205 Door Jammed Shut

[mattviatura]

Hi all

I recently mentioned on here that I was about to scrap my 205GTI for a C1 and got such a kicking that I decided to temporarily run another car and leave the Peugeot alone.

I've just got around to doing something with it and the driver's door is jammed shut. I can't get the key into the door at all. I've drowned it in WD40 to no avail, does anyone have any ideas please?

[TEKNOPUG]

Enter via the boot

[HereBeMonsters]

TEKNOPUG said:

Enter via the boot

Or the other door.

[DiscoStu]

Can you get in the car at all? If so then you'll need to pop off the door card to be able to get at the back of the lock barrel and mechanism.

Either its seized or a rod has bent. Disconnect the rods and try the key in the lock, if it still wont turn then the lock barrel has siezed. Try soaking it with wd40 from inside the door card, failing that remove it and fit a new one

[mattviatura]

DiscoStu said:

Can you get in the car at all? If so then you'll need to pop off the door card to be able to get at the back of the lock barrel and mechanism.

Either its seized or a rod has bent. Disconnect the rods and try the key in the lock, if it still wont turn then the lock barrel has siezed. Try soaking it with wd40 from inside the door card, failing that remove it and fit a new one

Yeah the boot and passenger door work fine. The key won't go into the lock on the driver's door at all. The central locking works but if I manually try and operate the locking from the button on the driver's door the switch won't move all the way up and down. The interior door handle doesn't open the door either.

Hope this makes sense.

How do I go about removing the door card without being able to open the door?

[mattviatura]

Oh and thanks for answering.

[TEKNOPUG]

Pretty sure that you can remove enough of the door card with it closed to remove the lock