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Subject:Re: Locked Electric Driver's Lock
From:Roy Nicholl
Date:Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:22:47 -0400

Did you try going in through the hatch?

> On 17-Dec-2018, at 03:44, Mark Belanger <mbelanger@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have a '91 with electric door locks. Unfortunately, it's been sitting a
> lot lately and I don't have a trickle charger on it (yet), so the battery
> got low. I was able to unlock the driver's side door and I heard the slider
> unlock as well, but when I tried to turn over the engine, it gave one crank
> and croaked.
>
> Hook the battery up to a charger overnight, which gave it some juice, but
> not enough to crank (I suspect the battery is toast now). The big change is
> that the driver's door lock would not unlock. The key would not physically
> turn counterclockwise, nor can I pull it up from within the car.
>
> I'm hoping one of you will tell me this happens when a battery runs low,
> but I expect I'm going to need a new door lock (to go along with the new
> battery I'm about to buy).
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Thanks mucho,
> -MB
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> Mark Belanger - mbelanger@gmail.com