My passenger side door lock has felt "ratchety" for a while when inserting the key, now I cant use the lock as the key only goes half way in, appears to be something inside which has moved, I can see something that looks like a small piece of wire inside the slot, i`ve tried picking at it to move the obstruction to no avail, any ideas anyone.

Cheers

Dunno i never use mine!
Get remote Central Locking!

Door keys are SOOOOOOOOOOOO last year! lol

:D

oi tucker not every1 can go out an buy remote central lockin mate
not untill pay day at least!

yeah sam, ive had that problem with the passanger door lock, there is a plastic cover over the lock barrel which is supposed to light up when u pull the handle and after a few years, they break (usually inside the lock)
so the best thing to do is to get some long nosed plyers or simmlar and try n pick it out, this should work but why do u use your passenger side lock anyway?

cheers

jamie

Jamie,
I don`t use the passenger door lock much, but I just like to keep everything working, its the frustrated engineer in me.

AND.....

`cos they don`t make our great little car anymore, I want it to last for ever.

mate - im only havin a laugh! lol Im lucky cos mine came with the car!

[quote="sam2mazdas"]Jamie,
I don`t use the passenger door lock much, but I just like to keep everything working, its the frustrated engineer in me.

AND.....

`cos they don`t make our great little car anymore, I want it to last for ever. [/quote]
It's not just me then I've very occasional 'issues' with the drivers side lock, so I use the passenger side to prolong the life of the driver's side.

Out of interest, can you get a single replacement lock without replacing all 5 locks?


Mark

you probably can Mark - but it will be Mazda only part and cost you more than replacing all locks and iginition...

If its duff then get remote key fob .. in the end will cost much less, and I donth think it costs that much to get fitted really

Looking at an alarm anyway.



Mark