Quarter Stuck In Door Handle

If you see a coin in your car door handle run and call the police.

Quarter stuck in door handle.

The knob will not turn to retract the stuck door latch. This is for when the door lock button is stuck in as this is often the most common type of door button sticking. Here s how it works. If you miss it in the morning and drive away nothing really happens.

Now wiggle the key up and down not side to side to work it out of the lock. More force is needed to turn the knob and unstick the latch. Try to open the door while it is shut. If the door lock button is stuck out keeping you from pressing it in jiggling the handle and moving the door is likely to shake the jammed parts together.

Spray a quick spurt of spray lubricant into the key hole just above the key while you jiggle the lock with the other hand. Troubleshooting a stuck door latch. You can use graphite in place of spray lubricant. The latch will not retract even when the knob is turned.

With the hinge side brackets attached using a block of wood placed against the outside the side opposite the hinges slightly hammer the door in the proper direction. More often than not this is all you need to do to free the key. Take note of the type of resistance. Then they wait for the car owner to show up and follow the owner home.

When the owner tries to lock the car the mechanism fails because the passenger door handle is jammed which gives the thief the ability to enter the car through the unlocked door. This video will show you how to get your closed door open because of a latch failure. The thief jams a coin into the door handle on the car s passenger side. This will push the top of the door inward.

Hold the application straw right above your stuck key aiming it into the hole. The door latch is not extended before rotating the knob.