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Life Unrealized
By Matt | November 10, 2007, 12:32am
Topics: Thoughts |
So last week like Wednesday my car driver side door lock broke. Not too shocking considering my two rear passenger door handles have been broken since I got the car. (Aside: I took them apart to find out that the handle is broken, piece of plastic broke, the child locks were not stuck on. Priced the handle too: $50 a piece.) The door could be opened from the inside, but the electric locks would not work and the key would not work. I spent some 3 hours taking apart the door and figuring out what was wrong with it. A spring had broken in the lock assembly. And the joy of this lock assembly was 5 rods connected to it. One to the lock for the key, one of the outside handle, one to the inside handle, one to the electric actuator, and one to the knob that is up by the window. Very complex. Pain in the butt to remove.
Stop by the dealership and they actually had the part in stock. I don’t know whether that is a good thing or not, but spend some $48 on that. I’m not sure why the metal lock assembly is cheaper than the plastic door handle, go figure. Took me about 30 minutes to install the lock assembly. It was much easier the second time around. And now my driver side door works again. Hooray.
And that much of my life makes sense.