Don Keefhardt

Sometimes it works...sometimes it doesn't. ???

Here's the scenario - I pull up to my shop doors, pull handbrake & put car in neutral...sometimes (but only sometimes) I can open the driver's door with the button on the door-pull handle...but other times it won't open, and I'll have to reach down and pull the mechanical door release on the floor.

I've tried all iterations of "neutral", "handbrake", "foot on/off brake pedal", "clutch down / up", and there is no common combination that will always allow me to open the door...it's just really random as to whether it'll open or not.

Baffled.

"Just get a garage-door-opener"...not a good answer as I've got a lift on one bay, and overhead stuff on the other...and it's somehow theraputic opening my own damn garage door.

sla07

i always seem to have issues with people opening the passenger door from the outside...but for some reason, its "smoother" when the windows are opened to any extent...its almost as if the window indexing causes the "difficulty" of opening the door...

wish i could help you with your issue...maybe try with the window down to see if that helps?

LTC Z06

Have you tried pushing the unlock button before the mechanical release?

keyplyr

I know in my A4 the shifter needs to be in Park or Neutral for the door to open.

chris12.8

Did you try hitting the unlock button first?

LTC Z06

It's always worked for me.

sla07

forgot to mention that too...unlock button first...

chris12.8

same here have to do it everytime

RLSebring

Park opens
Neutral opens
drive hit unlock

NYC-Style

Agree...you have to unlock first if car is still running....

RLSebring

Not mine. Only if I am in gear.

lastcowboy

all mine open in park

Tin Star

Something must be wrong with mine....only my front doors open

C7Joy

In a similar scenario I just hit the unlock button on the driver's door.

keyplyr

Well the important question is... why would you ever want to leave your Corvette at all?

bdanyluk

happened to me today...passenger side wouldn't open. Car running, dropping a co-worker off at the office. Put in neutral and while I am applying regular brake...passenger would not open.

Hit unlock a few times, still wouldn't open.

Put on emergency brake and hit unlock....still wouldn't open.


He HAD to use the mechanical unlock. WTF ! ?

INGER67

Doesn't sound safe....shouldn't be that difficult to get out.

Rocketmanwpb

Your doors are automatically locking when you move forward. Just need to hit the unlock button.

Drewstein

Is it that hard to push past R and into P? You really want to leave it in neutral with the e-brake on?

Besides that you didn't hit unlock. Pretty important when trying to open doors.

Knob Jockey

If I'm interpreting the Owner's Manual correctly (page 3-74), you need to turn 'Auto Unlock' off using the DIC, otherwise you have to turn off the ignition or put it in RAP if you have a manual tranny, those of us with autos just have to shift to park.