door lever issues (not long)

[sad_rocc at yahoo.com (Dan Smith)]

True, I realize WD-40 isn't a lubricant but I wasn't sure if there was stuff sticking in there and that would free things up. When removing the handle, doesn't most of the mechanism stay behind inside the door? I'll try smearing moly lube in there when I get the handle off and see if that helps things. It's difficult to test though as it's warm during the day here and freezing (literally) at night. But, either way it's easy to do and simple to try. Thanks for the tip. To remove the handle I just pry out that middle metal piece and there are a couple screws to remove right?
 
Dan

SailingFC@aol.com wrote:
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! 

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