On about 4 occasions over the past 6 weeks, the drivers exterior door handle, once unlocked, seems to get stuck in the "pulled in" position, e.g. the handle doesn't spring back to it's normal position, pushing the handle back forward again (e.g towards the bodywork of the car) doesn't fix it straight off, but after about 2 attempts, something clicks back into place, and pulling the handle once more opens the door.
Figured I'd keep an eye on it, and if it plays up more, I'll take it to the dealership, and get them to look at it regardless at the next service...
Roll on this evening, finish work, zap open the car, pull the drivers door, nothing, no resistance (just a bit of squeaking) and the handle pulls in and doesn't spring back, so I keep trying, I lock, unlock the car in the hope to trigger something, nothing, so I have a great idea, instead of standing like a loon, looking like I'm breaking into my own car, I decide to open the passenger door, and open the drivers door from the inside, and here lies in the problem - this handle isn't catching anything either, and is, instead just pulling easily open, but not opening the door!!!
So I (A very large guy) climb in through the passenger door, and across to the drivers seat, once here, I keep trying the door, until eventually it worked, I drove home, and managed to get out the car incident free...
I tried it again tonight, from the outside, same thing, it's stuck, to prove I'm not going mad, I tried to open from the inside again, but nothing, as per before, after maybe 20 - 30 attempts it eventually clicks back into place, but I am sure it's not doing the handle any good, continually trying.
I know people have had difficulty with stiff door handles, and one guy did have a similar problem to me, whereby the door was trapping passengers, from inside and out, I'm going to phone the dealer in the morning, and hopefully (I have great faith and confidence in them) they'll sort me out, because I am too big to climb across seats!
It's an 2007 '57' Type-S GT, (so only two doors, - 50% are playing up!!) and has 19k on the clock..
Just wondering if anyone else has had these exact symptoms...
Figured I'd keep an eye on it, and if it plays up more, I'll take it to the dealership, and get them to look at it regardless at the next service...
Roll on this evening, finish work, zap open the car, pull the drivers door, nothing, no resistance (just a bit of squeaking) and the handle pulls in and doesn't spring back, so I keep trying, I lock, unlock the car in the hope to trigger something, nothing, so I have a great idea, instead of standing like a loon, looking like I'm breaking into my own car, I decide to open the passenger door, and open the drivers door from the inside, and here lies in the problem - this handle isn't catching anything either, and is, instead just pulling easily open, but not opening the door!!!
So I (A very large guy) climb in through the passenger door, and across to the drivers seat, once here, I keep trying the door, until eventually it worked, I drove home, and managed to get out the car incident free...
I tried it again tonight, from the outside, same thing, it's stuck, to prove I'm not going mad, I tried to open from the inside again, but nothing, as per before, after maybe 20 - 30 attempts it eventually clicks back into place, but I am sure it's not doing the handle any good, continually trying.
I know people have had difficulty with stiff door handles, and one guy did have a similar problem to me, whereby the door was trapping passengers, from inside and out, I'm going to phone the dealer in the morning, and hopefully (I have great faith and confidence in them) they'll sort me out, because I am too big to climb across seats!
It's an 2007 '57' Type-S GT, (so only two doors, - 50% are playing up!!) and has 19k on the clock..
Just wondering if anyone else has had these exact symptoms...