Pagoda SL Group
W113 Pagoda SL Group => Body, interior, paint, chrome, and cosmetic items => Topic started by: Merc_Girl on October 15, 2025, 20:34:05
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Hiya folks
Has anyone had experience of repairing an early type door lock? I think it is that that is stopping the door releasing from the inside handle
With thanks in advance
Katie
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Boy, would this be a great service! I have had a selection of marginally, functional door latch, and lock assemblies, that are just worn out, or in some state of partial war, such as the functionality is affected.
What would be better is if somebody remanufactured these new.
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I’m surprised that no one in the group does this. Surely it can’t be that hard 🫣
I can see you can buy new later locks but not for the early ones 😢
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Hello Katie, i'm no expert and have never had one of these latches apart, you may have tried a few of these things already, but if not:
I assume you can open the door from the outside with no problem, if so then you need to check that the internal rod/bar/ whatever it's called from the internal latch release handle to the latch turns the cam to the same degree. I just checked mine and it does
If it doesn't, then can you manually pull the bar, to operate the cam to the same degree?
Are the small rubber guide posts all fitted and secure, i would have thought that even if one of these was broken or missing, the bar could deflect enough to not operate the cam far enough, looks like even a 1mm deflection could affect the cam. The rubber guide posts and the small clip that secures the bar to the latch are available from the usual suppliers
Is there any adjustment on the bar, to effectively decrease the length of the bar, and increase the pull of the cam, perhaps at the spring end of the bar?
Does the strength of the spring on the bar have an effect on the pull, perhaps it's grown weak over the years, i know i have
Is the chrome receiver in the door jam fixed tightly, the chrome receiver is rivetted to the back plate and can become loose, i would have thought this would cause a locking problem, but i guess it could cause the opposite effect? My drivers door receiver is very tight, almost no movement, but my passenger door receiver is quite loose, moves a good 2mm in all directions, although it doesn't cause any problems at the moment
Is the receiver aligned correctly, perhaps it needs a small adjustment?
i assume you've given the latch release mechanism a good dosing of cleaner and degreaser?
Just looking at some pictures of the bar/rod, i'm not clear whether the rod pushes the cam to open, so moves from handle to latch, if so it needs to be lengthened somehow to get the extra little push necessary, or pulls the cam to open, so will need to be shortened somehow
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Thanks Bob
All thoroughly clean and cleaned again!?!?!?
Some of the little rubber things are missing and I’ve ordered replacements, the bar that connects the handle to the lock is now polished to within an inch of its life 😱
Was still playing up, so gave connecting a huge yank, and all working now😎
The odd thing is that I can’t lock the door from the inside, but all good using the key. I’m just wondering if perhaps this is a feature to stop folk accidentally locking themselves out of the car?
The reason for this being in my thoughts is that the lock on the passenger side happily rotates around. However, on the drivers side, the ‘collar’ (that holds the spring loaded part that butts up to the key barrel) appears to have a cam on it that stops the spring part rotating fully and therefore not throwing the pivot points enough to move the other bar connecting to the interior lock. Either that or ‘collar’ has somehow been fitted the wrong way around!
Any thoughts? 🥰
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You should be able to lock the drivers door from the inside only when the door is shut, it won't lock if the door is open, is that working correctly?
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Thank Bob
Will try that. Passenger door seems to allow you to put the lock on when door open 😱
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By design
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Thanks Lori!!!
What book/document did that come from? I’ve a few, including the ‘big blue book’ but didn’t find anything of help 😔
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The owners manual - small booklet that came in the brown vinyl pouch
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I didn’t see it there, will have to revisit
Thanks Lori and Bob, where would I be without all the great folk on the forum🥰
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Two older cars I had, 1978 VW Rabbit and 1979 BMW 320i had such locks…basically to prevent accidental locking of the keys in the car.
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Spoiling all the excitement of the unknown, will I, will I not be able to get back into my car 🤣
At least I know how it works now and didn’t get my dremel out to cut the ‘cam’ off the collar 😱