I have a '91 Carat. Took me a while to figure out the locking/unlocking sequence on the rear hatch relative to other doors being locked or not. It's nice to have the electric locks on the driver and passenger door - not so much on the rear hatch and sliding door. I may very well de-comission the electric operation of the rear hatch and go for manual only. John On 3/22/2014 10:52 AM, Grungy wrote: > The combined advice of the respondents got me there. > Swiss army knife short blade to cut off the plastic fasteners to > remove the inner liner. > > Could then see that the power lock actuator was stuck in the way of > allowing the lock mechanism to work. Removed the actuator and now the > non-powered lock is capable once again of actuating the latch. > > I've repaired power lock actuators before (talk about adventures in > figuring-it-out!) and I'll just "suffer" with manual locks now. > Opens... locks... good enough for me. > > Thanks for the assist. > > At 9:28 AM -0600 3/22/14, OlRivrRat wrote: >> There is a possibility that this issue is related to the rest >> of the CentralLockingSystem not working >> >> properly ~ On my '90, if the FrontDoors are not Unlocked then the >> Key has NoEffect in the RearHatchLock ~ >> >> >> ORR ~ DeanB >> >> On 22 Mar , 2014, at 8:19 AM, Grungy wrote: >> >>> The rear hatch lock on my '89 Carat has failed locked. >> > I can't open it with the key. >>> >> > Any tips on how to get the hatch open? >>> Haven't tried to peel the hatch liner off yet (with it closed). >>> I can replace the lock if I can get it open, provided that I can >>> find a part. >> > (Too bad I already sold the one that I had from my parted-out '90.) > > > -- > > bcnu - Grungy (Seabrook, TX) opinions are just that.obviously. > '60 dddPanel '69 Bug '89 Carat '11 Jetta SportWagon TDI > g r u n g y AT g r u n g y DOT c o m > |
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