Door Lock Cylinders

[maroonmerauder]

I had my drivers door lock cylinder cease up after a harsh winter last year. I replaced it with a new one, worked well over the past year, BUT is now doing the same thing. I can slide the key in but can't turn it.

My question i guess is, are the driver and passenger door lock cylinders interchangable? or r they left and right dependant. I really don't want to spend $100(cdn) for a new one if I dont have to.

Just asking before i rip off both door panels to do this... BTW..its a shibby job if you have big hands.

[rixGAphx]

Before you do anything, try some graphite lubricant in the cylinder.
Can work wonders.

Don't know about interchangability, sorry.

-Rick

[maroonmerauder]

Im tending to think its some arm or linkage in the door assembly.....agh. Because I used the graphite and it didnt corrected the problem. thx for the suggestion tho.

Ne one out there experience this problem?

[MantaGreen97]

You know, I had one of my door cylinders go bad on me too--the driver door. I've always used my keyless entry (which is bad because not using the cylinder will lead to problems as well); so I'd always make sure to use it once in a while to open the door. I used to do this a lot before I had a remote started 'cause I'd leave the keys in the ignition if I had to run in somewhere real quick, and then lock the car and use my spare to open the door when I came back.

But after I was rear ened this one time, when I got the car back I had disconnected the alarm and everything for them to work on the car... When I came to pick up the car after the body work, they had locked it of course, but I found they key would not work in the door! Both the shop and insurance refused to replace it because they said "that couldn't have happened" from the rear end accident :roll2: But it was working before so whatever.

Anyway fast forward to this summmer--I decide to take out the cylinder to see what's wrong with it. I tried lubricating it as did you, to no avail.

But once I took the cylinder out of the door and mess around with it a bit and sprayed a lot of silicone spray in and on it, it actually started to turn again! I re-installed it and it's been working fine since :)

I suggest you try taking out the cylinder and fiddling with it a bit like I did as you might get yours to work again as well.