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**HOW TO**: Door lock module replacement **Photos Fixed**

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doylebros:
Have a trip past your local breakers to look at the item and you'll see the ring I'm on about worth the effort cause you don't want to damage the door skin!

mattp244:
The only problem is I have no way at getting at the mechanism to have a look at it, I tried opening the door skin to get access, but it won't go far enough to get a proper look in there to have a play about

doylebros:
My thoughts is take the T20 bolt out and jiggle the blank barrel to work the ring lose as there's nothing else but corrosion to keep it in.

Swampy:
Thanks for this! I completed this on a rear door of mine a couple of weekends back. I fitted a new module and also a new handle carrier - the door now unlocks and opens as it should!

thanks  :jumpmove:

StGiles:
Absolutely great guide Matto, many thanks.
Stealers wanted £145 for the lock + £100 to fit, after reading your guide I decided to go eBay for £30 and 2hrs of my time on a Saturday morning.
The only problem I had was during the re-fit, securing the door handle key/blank barrel was proving difficult. After tightening the lock handle carrier retaining screw the key/blank barrel was loose and would just pull out. Each time the beveled metal piece on the handle carrier kept falling off. It seemed the closed (i.e. normal positioned) door handle was pushing the beveled piece off the carrier before I could tighten the retaining screw. After putting on/taking off the skin 4 times to get the beveled piece back in place it very slowly dawned on me that you need to pull & hold the door handle lever (in the door opening position) and hold the key/blank barrel firmly with your thumb whilst tightening up the retaining screw. The new lock is working just fine and I hope this makes sense! :rolleye:

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