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94 GP doors wont work when cold..


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hi everyone. a friend of mine has a 94 GP coupe (the same one with the window problem :rolleyes:) well i replaced the driver side latch and adjusted the passenger side latch. but when it gets down to about 20 outside both doors will not open from the inside or out. when you pull the handles they feel like they are not connected. once they warm up a little they work perfect :willynilly: so she was pretty pissed when she had to climb through the only working window to get i and out of the car :eek: so needless to say i have the car back again and they work fine now.

i have tried grease, WD40, pb blaster, and lots of other things. Anyone else have problems. I swear the coupe door handles really suck. once the first one breaks its all over. Any ideas or insight would be cool

Posted

Adjust the handles about once a month.

 

What i do is I figure out the amount of play between where teh handle moves and it actually actuates the latch, and I adjust it to just that point, so that you barely have to move the handles for the doors to open. Seems to make the handles last a lot longer.

 

For instance... try the inside then the outside, feel the difference.. you can ususally feel where it starts to actuate the lever. I can't explain exactly the feeling, cuz I'm kind of drunk, but that's what I do.

 

But then again, I can adjust my latches pretty far and not have to worry about the angle hitting the locks. >.> lock cylinders don't work from the outside, lol

Posted

well the problem with adjusting them now is that the driver side is adjusted all the way up as far as it can go to open the door. Even with a different latch, new handle, and a different rod it always seems the same. When it isnt cold they work great but in the cold they barely work

Posted

well the problem with adjusting them now is that the driver side is adjusted all the way up as far as it can go to open the door. Even with a different latch, new handle, and a different rod it always seems the same. When it isnt cold they work great but in the cold they barely work

 

hrm.

 

Maybe something is binding up? That is all i could possibly think of then.

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i dont know. i tried them this morning and everything worked perfect. MAybe they just dont like the owner lol

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