'01 Passat wagon, rear door dummy "lock cylinder housing" wants to fall out.

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My GF has an '01 Passat wagon.  On the driver's side rear door, what the service
manual calls the "lock cylinder housing" wants to fall out.  Except that she has
keyless
entry, so there's no lock cylinder in the rear doors, and so it's a dummy plug
and there's
no screw in the door jamb that would hold a real lock cylinder in place.  I can't
figure out what held it in, other than a very little friction.  Maybe there was
a clip inside.

Anybody know what held it in?


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Chuck Tribolet
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Re: '01 Passat wagon, rear door dummy "lock cylinder housing" wants to fall out.


service

has keyless

and there's

can't

was a clip inside.

Yes. A circlip. It may have broken or slipped out. Look for a groove
in the housing. You can make one if you are clever from a bit of soft
brass or hard plastic of the correct thickness. Just getting it in
requires 10" double-jointed fingers and three hands.

Failing that, and if it is truly a dummy... a bit of RTV Silicon will
hold it in place without it being overly permanent.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA


 

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September 27, 2007, 7:40 pm
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Re: '01 Passat wagon, rear door dummy "lock cylinder housing" wants to fall out.

It wasn't a circlip.  It was a rather complex stamping (German overengineering)
that would
bayonet to lock in the "lock cyinder housing".  There's a screw (hidden under
the rubber
moulding) that turns it.  Best guess is that when she had that side of the car
painted after a vandalism, the body shop removed the door handle (and housing) to
paint, and forgot to tighten the screw when they put it back together.  The
screw was in the
all the way loose position when I disassembled things.  And the missing piece
was hiding in
the bottom of the door.

BTW, if you go in there, pull out the door latch mechanism.



service

has keyless

plug and there's

can't

was a clip inside.


 

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