Brian said: > my passenger side door no longer opens.......does anyone know a > procedure for opening it? You have my sympathy. This can be a very difficult situation, especially if a passenger of the fairer sex is trapped in your DeLorean! You probably need to get inside the door and adjust the linkages. With luck, your problem might be that either the lock linkage or the latch linkage has worked its way to a marginal area where they no longer reach far enough to do their job reliably. You might be able to coax them by pushing the inside lock rocker hard, pulling up on the door handle, and rapping the lower part of the door with your fist. It might also help to have someone outside pulling up on the bottom of the door (not the handle). If this does not work, then you need to get at the door's inner mechanism with the door closed. It is not easy to remove those panels while the door is closed! The previous owner of my car did it, and damaged soft foam material around both inner door handles in the process. The upside of this unfortunate event is that on my car it is fairly easy to get inside my doors when I need to. Unfortunately, to get at the mechanism in question you must remove the BOTTOM inner door panel, which is the trickier of the two. Both panels are held in place by rivets and nylon christmas tree clips, but the bottom panel is also held in by that foam around the pull handle. A few questions: Does your car have door guides? Some early DeLoreans, like mine, did not. If you don't have door guides you might have a damaged latch mechanism, which could make opening that door difficult even if you access the inner mechanism. Can you tell if the door is held closed by just one latch or both? This will tell you which linkage(s) need to be adjusted. I just replaced a latch yesterday (damaged by 18 years without guides), and now both of my doors are fully functional. But tonight I will be getting inside and fine tuning the linkages, which have slipped a little bit over the years. - Mike Substelny ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/group/dmcnews http://www.eGroups.com - Simplifying group communications