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How can I open the door to repair the actuator.
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Not a good situation. Here is a tip for the passenger side door with the same condition. Reverse the procedure and you can do the drivers door, good luck. There is a hole in the door panel that I found (looking at the driver side door) so, here is the fix for anyone who has this problem. Lock and unlock your doors with the remote a 100 times before trying this fix. Spray WD40 in every conceivable hole. Hit the darn thing with a dead blow hammer (try to jar it loose) If you can hear every actuator operating except the locked door, AND THE LOCK PIN ONLY BOBS UP AND DOWN WHEN YOU PULL THE HANDLE FROM THE INSIDE. then your door is hopelessly locked (double locked) and the actuator has failed and there is not a pretty fix! order a new actuator (you will be destroying your old one) disconnect the battery cable (don't want any air bag deployment) remove the panel from the drivers door. measure the exact center of the hole directly above the torx screw for the locking mech. (only screw inside the car facing the seat) (the other two are on the edge of the door on either side of the latch). mark this dimension on your passenger door panel. Take and awl and (hurts to say this) hit it with a hammer! Hard! once you have a small hole through the door panel material (leather and cardboard). advance to a small punch and continue to increase your punch sizes until you are able to pull on the interior door handle and it opens the door (the lock rod, post will pop up) I was able to repair the door panel using some epoxy on the back side and the small hole in the leather with a repair kit (little hole, small amount of silicone may work also). THERE! NO 700 DOLLAR DOOR PANEL I CAN LIVE WITH THE 1/8 INCH HOLE! BEST OF LUCK!
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