Outside Door Handle Won T Open

July 6 2016 5 49am 2.
Outside door handle won t open. Hi this video shows you how to repair a broken door handle caused by a faulty door latch. Once you have identified the problem finding and implementing a solution is fairly simple. An exterior door that refuses to open can be caused by several things from swollen or warped wooden door and frames or old neglected hardware. When the door knob is locked the handle will not turn which keeps the latch from retracting.
There s two different connecting rods tom the lock one from the inside handle and one from the outside. The part of a doorknob that you grasp with your hand connects to a rod that extends though the door to the knob on the other side. Looking through the crack at the latch i think that s the word for it the metal part that goes inside the door when you move the handle it won t retract into the door completely. In the resting state of the lock the spring is extended.
Before i tear this thing apart for the first time ever can anyone give me an idea as to why it would be doing this. The handles are not jammed and geelel as if its locked when you pull on them. The turning of the handle retracts the latch by pulling on the spring and compressing it. I will show you an easy way to remove the door lock and open it manually as this.
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Eventually it just stopped opening from the outside completely and someone would have to open it from the inside. The door handle started getting stiff and then stopped working and. Ok so my drivers door on my 2013 golf won t open from the outside i pull the handle it feels loose won t release but from the inside opens perfectly fine.