door getting hrd to open on '92 240....

[Jeff Olsen]

The drivers door on my wife's 1992 240 is getting hard to open from the
outside. You have to lift the handle about as far as it'll go before it
opens. It feels like the mechanism or cable has worn or stretched to close
to it's limits; is this an easy fix?

Thank you!

-jeff

 

[Mike F]

The drivers door on my wife's 1992 240 is getting hard to open from the
outside. You have to lift the handle about as far as it'll go before it
opens. It feels like the mechanism or cable has worn or stretched to close
to it's limits; is this an easy fix?

Thank you!

-jeff

The door handles are a little fragile - some time a rivet in the pivot
shears, and sometimes the casting breaks near that pivot. In any case,
you're going to need to remove the door panel. Keep in mind the front
and rear handles are the same - you can pop the one from the rear door
into the front one, then worry about fixing the rear one at your
leisure.

--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)

 

[Jeff Olsen]

Thanks fo the reply! I'll pull that panel. Hope it's not too much of a
PITA. Seems like i pulled it once and got stuck somewhere and stopped.

-jeff