How do you remove the doors safety feature?

[Milenko2121]

I took apart my door and lubed everything up because it was hard to open and the handle needed to be tightened down.

Before I did this, I could lock my doors from the outside and then shut them and it would stay locked (both sides).

Now after lubing everything, my door locks will pop open when I shut the door while locked.

My key only works to "unlock" my door, and will not lock it.

How can I remove this feature because it obviously was working just fine without it before lube.

[EScanlon]

When you re-tightened everything to "where it was" you didn't.

Look at the linkage from the outside key lock to the latch mechanism, it may be that you didn't extend the "nut/screw" that connects the 2 far enough for the key lock to properly push down on the latch.

You can test all this by removing the door panel (sorry) and then tightening that nut/screw so that after you've "latched" the door (while keeping it open) you can then use the key to lock and observe the latch mechanism. It's a pretty straight forward process.

FWIW

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[Milenko2121]

When you re-tightened everything to "where it was" you didn't.

Look at the linkage from the outside key lock to the latch mechanism, it may be that you didn't extend the "nut/screw" that connects the 2 far enough for the key lock to properly push down on the latch.

You can test all this by removing the door panel (sorry) and then tightening that nut/screw so that after you've "latched" the door (while keeping it open) you can then use the key to lock and observe the latch mechanism. It's a pretty straight forward process.

FWIW

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The only thing I tightened was the slack before opening the door handle so that it would not wiggle, and on the passenger side all I did was spray lube on all the joints and it did it.

I found out that you can bypass the feature by holding up on your door handle as you shut the door, so I'm perfectly fine with everything.

Edited January 2, 2012 by Milenko2121