BigJ
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This is the second time its happened to me where the rear passenger side door on my 2010 Raptor SCAB has stopped working. Specifically, when I pull the inward facing door release handle, I can hear and see the top latch pop, but nothing happens to the rear latch, and so only the top of the door is released. You'll go to tug on it and the whole door will flex out and down from the top, because the lower latch is still firmly stuck.
The first time it happened I chalked it up to a freak thing. It took me about an hour of exploration carried out at weird contorted angles to figure out what was wrong. This time, the second time, I'm pretty sure I have a persistent problem, but the 'fix' only took a few minutes. Its a pain in the ass no matter how you slice it though.
Here's what I discovered. It may help save you a service call and a serious headache one day. I can only imagine the carnage a dealership would inflict as they tried to figure out what's wrong. Images of doors ripping from hinges throwing streaking trails of foam and fake leather come to mind.
Anywho...
1) move your passenger seat as far up and as folded forward as it will go. You're going to want all the room you can get.
(ignore that loop looking thing; that's my ham radio antenna lead)
2) pop off the plastic plate cover just behind the handle. A quick pry with a screwdriver in the slot designed for it and pops it right off.
3) Now grab your 10mm socket. I used an extension and it made life a little easier.
4) Now bend out the loose handle as far as it will safely go. Again you need all the room you can get. See those two cables in there? The top releases the top latch, and the bottom released the bottom latch.
5) Grab a pair of pliers and tug on the bottom cable (assuming that's your problem too; tug the top if the top isn't opening, or both at the same time if both arnt). If you'd already used the handle to free to the top latch (do so), tugging this cable will pop the lower and the door will open. Hooray for more room to work!
6) Now this is the part that will test your patience. The goal is to reseat that ball into its plastic socket on the inside lip of the handle. It takes some finesse. I ended up using a pair of needlenose in my left hand to pull and push the ball (via the cable) past the handle, and then a second set of smaller needlenose in my right hand to grasp it, and literally pull it toward me blind until it found the slot. Mine didn't give any sort of positive click or anything (probably broken), and it sits in there really loosely.
If you got it right you should now have a functioning handle that pulls both cables. Put everything back together and if you're lucky like me, expect to get good and practiced at this procedure!
I love my Raptor. I really do. But sometimes I hate being reminded that its still just a glorified F150
The first time it happened I chalked it up to a freak thing. It took me about an hour of exploration carried out at weird contorted angles to figure out what was wrong. This time, the second time, I'm pretty sure I have a persistent problem, but the 'fix' only took a few minutes. Its a pain in the ass no matter how you slice it though.
Here's what I discovered. It may help save you a service call and a serious headache one day. I can only imagine the carnage a dealership would inflict as they tried to figure out what's wrong. Images of doors ripping from hinges throwing streaking trails of foam and fake leather come to mind.
Anywho...
1) move your passenger seat as far up and as folded forward as it will go. You're going to want all the room you can get.
(ignore that loop looking thing; that's my ham radio antenna lead)
2) pop off the plastic plate cover just behind the handle. A quick pry with a screwdriver in the slot designed for it and pops it right off.
3) Now grab your 10mm socket. I used an extension and it made life a little easier.
4) Now bend out the loose handle as far as it will safely go. Again you need all the room you can get. See those two cables in there? The top releases the top latch, and the bottom released the bottom latch.
5) Grab a pair of pliers and tug on the bottom cable (assuming that's your problem too; tug the top if the top isn't opening, or both at the same time if both arnt). If you'd already used the handle to free to the top latch (do so), tugging this cable will pop the lower and the door will open. Hooray for more room to work!
6) Now this is the part that will test your patience. The goal is to reseat that ball into its plastic socket on the inside lip of the handle. It takes some finesse. I ended up using a pair of needlenose in my left hand to pull and push the ball (via the cable) past the handle, and then a second set of smaller needlenose in my right hand to grasp it, and literally pull it toward me blind until it found the slot. Mine didn't give any sort of positive click or anything (probably broken), and it sits in there really loosely.
If you got it right you should now have a functioning handle that pulls both cables. Put everything back together and if you're lucky like me, expect to get good and practiced at this procedure!
I love my Raptor. I really do. But sometimes I hate being reminded that its still just a glorified F150
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