[Thephatmaster]

Hi there,

My wife's MK1 seems to have a sticky locking mechanism on the passenger door.

If I unlock the car with the central locking, sometimes the passenger door stays locked.

Before I go through the hassle and giant sticky mess of taking the door card off and poking around...

Has anyone got any ideas what might be wrong?

 

[machgo]

My MK1 passenger door power lock mechanism failed--I bought it that way. Not an uncommon problem. Not sure if the US version is the same as yours.

A used part off ebay got mine fixed and is still working almost 5 years later.

 

[Mark-one]

I had the exact same problem. Also, the speaker in this door was vibrating.

After inspection I saw the bottom of the door was VERY rusty. No other doors had this issue. I think there must have been a leak somewhere and it has affected the speaker and the lock.

My rear doors do not have a key slot, so I was able to simply swap the door from another Focus the same colour and both problems are now fixed.

 

[Thephatmaster]

Thanks guys, will look into swapping it out