lillthingz

Hey, everyone. I have a 92 civic 4 dr, and my rear passengerside door won't open from the inside or the outside. This is my 2nd 4 door and 3rd civic to own it has never happened to me before. How do I get to fixing it. I know it has to be the two rod's. But if you can't get the door open than you can't get the door panel off. Does anyone know how to take the door handle off form the outside or a way to fix this peice, or a website that can help me?

EGCivicCoupe

Hmm thats tricky.

Don't have an extra door panel kicking around to put on that one?
You could cut it and open the door but yea, thats only if you got one from your past 3 civics.


Sucks dude

idriveadelsol7

get a slim jim... however you spell it. i think that might work. and i think the door fasteners or the fastener fromt he handle itself is broken.

civictildeath

my 91 did that but i got in the back, pulled the handle, and kicked it open. then my door handles on the outside would stick up and the door wouldnt stay shut until i pushed the handle down.

if you take the piece around the rear door handle on the inside off, you should be able to get to the rods.

jdmgoldcivic

is your car power door locks

My EX driver door wouldn't open and it was the power solenoid on the latch system that went bad. You can take the door panel off. I got mine off it just took alot of time to be careful with it but it came off.

lillthingz

The interior handle is off already, I took the peice off to look at it and the rod wasn't even connected. Yea it's got power locks but I don't think that matters much. When you move both the handles nothing happens at all. You can tell that neither of the rods are there

idriveadelsol7

rod is probably broken off the latch somehow?

lillthingz

Definately. Does anyone know if we can take our door handles off form the outside?

duggy

id say the best way is to slim jim it.

lillthingz

How am I supposed to Slim Jim it? there is nothing attached to it that I know of.

lillthingz

Does anyone think a body or performance shop could fix it?

jdmgoldcivic

pop off the side panels by the door panel and drop the seats and take the door panel off. then just pop the rod back on

lillthingz

do you know how to take the seats off? Or is there any way to take the door off?

jdmgoldcivic

I don't know if the seats in the 4 drs come out like the 2 drs but on mine i just pullout and up on the bottom seat and it pops out and then the back there is brackets on the side you just unbolt and seats come out. i hope this helps and I'm glad its just the rods on your car. Mine we had a hell of a time with that latch not working

nocturnaldragon

You should be able to get your door panel off with the door closed, its not the easiest because you don't have the room as if it was open but it can be done. Once its open look to see what needs to move in order for the door to open with the interior handle, Normally the interior handle will open the door regardless of if its locked or not. Otherwise see what you need to do to move the lever to the unlocked position. You might have to spray some wd-40 or something in there to free up the mechanism if its jambed up. Once the door is open take it out and make sure nothing is bent and put some grease in there to make sure it doesn't happen again otherwise the lock mechanism for civics is around $85 the sols around $200 a piece.....