door lever issues (not long)

[SailingFC at aol.com (SailingFC@aol.com)]

Try removing the door handle from the door, cleaning the mechanism and 
putting some grease or a few drops of heavy oil on the moving parts.  The "factory" 
grease gets old and hard with age, in cold weather it's worst.  This should do 
it.  WD-40 is not the best lubricant to use, in fact it's not a lubricant at 
all (but that's an entirely different discussion).

-Dick-
78 Scirocco
Original Owner
http://members.aol.com/sailingfc/


In a message dated 9/14/2003 1:45:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
sad_rocc@yahoo.com writes:

This happened with my 16v and I forgot the fix. When it's warm out, my 
driver's door opens fine. When it's cold, I have to push in the door while squeezing 
the hell out of the latch to get it to open. Extreme pain in the ass (and 
fingers). Pass. side works fine all the time. Do I hose the mechanism down with 
WD-40? Replace some little bit? Swap bits from the pass side? Nobody really 
rides in the pass. seat and I never do, so screw 'em!