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today I'm gonna show you how to fix the side door in a van that won't open
in this case try as you can thing on open is it from the outside or the
inside now we go inside and you can see there's no from the inside either and
here's the problem you can only get to it from the inside so we're gonna have
to tear this plastic stuff off so first we on screw a little handle here there's
two Phillips screws one in the back off it comes then we have to take the screws
off of the window piece here to get it out of the waste of the plastic will
come off it just unscrews then we can pick that up get it out of the way now we
gotta pull this plastic off it's kind of a pain but it does actually snap off
grab the edges and it comes right out throw it in the back seat, now that uncovers the
bottom part the latches inside here so we got to do the same thing here we just
pull a lot now sometimes it'll stick on the bottom cuz it's closed but in this
case it's got enough room and I can reach inside here and pull on the latch
and get it open we just reach inside here there's a rod and we pull on it can
take a while sometimes if you reach your arm in and pull enough, there it goes out of the
way, well we haven't fixed anything yet but at least we got it open and I don't
so many of these I know the cable assembly breaks you gotta buy the whole
latch and assembly and then just replace it like this the latch isn't here and as
you can see it's got these squirrely heads on them you need a special socket
that goes on there any hot screw got a my pretty tight and eventually you get
all three off and a slide down inside now as you can see with the new cable
assembly is a bunch of cables so to get the old one out rather than fish around
I just cut the old cables cable cutter here you just get the cutters in a lot
of weight a little swear here's the old broken one then we'll
take the bolts off the inner handle get that off then you slide the latch in and
match up the three holes and screw them in get them on nice and tight you don't
want the hinge to be sliding remember to switch the ratchet to the other side
then you snap the right on to the door handle so then when you turn the handle
a little shaky here you'll see it move, here's a better shot of it moving, then you get
the inside latch and stick the holes in there and hold it in on the inside put
the nuts back on make sure they're nice and tight before I put it all back
together let's close it and open it make sure it works and inside success now we
can put the panel's back on and the top panel slips on you want to get the low
unlock knob sticking up it's always fun wrestling with this plastic junk there
we go then we get the window holder stick a screw in first then line it up
hey put the rest of the screws in, so now you know how to fix the door that has a
broken latch sure this was the side door on the van but they all work in a
similar matter any doors got a hinge and they almost all have cables on now
because the cheaper made than they used to be when they had all solid metal
parts, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos
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