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I went to leave work last night and noticed that my handle felt loose when I opened the door. I looked and the lock is just gone. The whole handle feels a little loose but is still in there. Have any of you ever heard of an issue like this? Think someone tried to break in? My alarm never went off so nobody got the door open.
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lol that sucks,, happened to my 93 gmc seirra gotta take it apart from the inside
same thing happen to me too. The damn nut holding it together just fell off. I had to remove the inside and put it back together.
Hello Markbro,Quote:
Originally Posted by markbro
Sorry to hear about this. I would suggest taking your vehicle into the dealership to have them take a look at your door handle to see what the story is. Please keep me posted on what you find out.
Vanessa
GM Customer Service
Had this happen to me too. Went to police and filed report because it happened less than a month after I moved, and swore it was vandals.
turns out the weather just made the nut break.
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if it was vandals odds are there would be a scratch or gouge in the door handle.
What do the nut look like mine fell out today when i went to lock it.
this happened to me twice, the second time i fixed it i put some super glue on the nut.
This happened to me too, but it was not messed with, the nut just simply came undone by regular usage. I just put a little locktite on it and no problems since. Not saying someone didn't mess with it, but hopefully you don't have any more problems after the fix!
This happened to me too, and I am pretty sure it was because someone tried to break in to me car because it was on the passenger side, but who knows for sure, I remember one day just noticing that my locks were loose, and used occams razor.. plus the passenger door gets far, far less use than the drivers side and the lock fell in on that side. Actually I just did the drivers side too and used blue locktite. Fortunately I had a tech friend show me how to do it on the passenger side first... not too difficult for the novice getting the window winder clip off was the hardest thing for me!!
Me too, nut worked itself loose, it was waiting for me in the bottom of the door.
This is not a difficult fix but you do have to take the door apart. There are several screws holding the door panel on. If you do t his yourself be careful when you remove the metal strip on the top of the door and the plastic inside mirror cover. I bent the metal strip, not an unforgivable mistake, but the mirror cover is held in by plastic tabs, mine broke during the removal, they were brittle. I ended up re-installing the mirror cover with double sided tape.
Ok, inside the door: The inside of the door handle is held in place by two small bolts, one of them has fallen off and the lock falls away, but it is still inside the door. I had to take the door apart in order to re-install it.
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There's the lock, its still attached to the arm (lower left) but fallen back inside the door, the bolt that holds it on is missing... da da da... The right bolt is still there holding the door handle in place.
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A better view showing what has happened. The lock is held in place by one bolt. Note the missing bolt lower left of the handle.
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Here's the bolt, in the bottom of the door.
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A view from farther back, still inside the door. The bolt is all the way at the front of the door, don't expect to find it under the lock.
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Basically, you have to put the lock back into the hole and re-install the nut. Note the position of the nut, it goes through the zinc lock.