Technical Stuck door handles

[WitleyPanda]

Rear door : outside handle remains in open/lifted position, does not spring back.
Assume door card has to come off, peeled from bottom after removing window winder, screw behind inside latch ? Any pictures of where the fir trees are? Any likely parts that will need ? Assuming just corrosion seized, but another vehicle has similar issue so wounder if someone tried to force doors.
Pictures, parts?

 

[Herts Hillhopper]

I seem to remember one of mine doing this and responding to a good spray of GT85 (Teflon-rich lubricant/cleaner) bike spray in and around the pivots, from the outside.

The door card, yes comes off as you describe- there’s a screw in the internal pull handle in the armrest too. The clips are simply ‘all round the edge’. Use a trim pry tool and nothing then breaks. Once the moulding is off, there’s an inner waterproofing sheet to, which can be peeled away from the upper, outer corner. Don’t damage the lower part of this as that’s what keeps water out of the car

 

[crispyy]

Rear door : outside handle remains in open/lifted position, does not spring back.
Assume door card has to come off, peeled from bottom after removing window winder, screw behind inside latch ? Any pictures of where the fir trees are? Any likely parts that will need ? Assuming just corrosion seized, but another vehicle has similar issue so wounder if someone tried to force doors.
Pictures, parts?

hope this helps. The top is also clipped onto the window weather stripping btw.

 

[WitleyPanda]

hope this helps. The top is also clipped onto the window weather stripping btw.

Thanks that is just what I wanted ! very helpful. I realised the top clipped over... (It is door week here doing the Panda, same problem on Disco2 and the ninety door totally stripped for welding in steel section.)

 

[crispyy]

Thanks that is just what I wanted ! very helpful. I realised the top clipped over... (It is door week here doing the Panda, same problem on Disco2 and the ninety door totally stripped for welding in steel section.)

There's some more door pictures in my post here:

Panda 2012+ - Pandinha - Updates

www.fiatforum.com

You can also see how I redid the vapor barrier. I used thick gardening plastic and butyl rope.

 

[WitleyPanda]

There's some more door pictures in my post here:

Panda 2012+ - Pandinha - Updates

www.fiatforum.com

You can also see how I redid the vapor barrier. I used thick gardening plastic and butyl rope.

ditto : I tend to use 480 gauge polyethene and the butyl caulking to reseal doors
It just the fir trees that drive me mad. Gorilla adhesive works well to bond them to the card. else it the soldering iron and remelt.

 

[Herts Hillhopper]

ditto : I tend to use 480 gauge polyethene and the butyl caulking to reseal doors
It just the fir trees that drive me mad. Gorilla adhesive works well to bond them to the card. else it the soldering iron and remelt.

Tempting fate here but never broken a fir tree fixing yet - even the ones on a Defender’s bumper end caps. A forked plastic pry tool works every time (so far…)