I've managed to free up the cab door locks and the rear hatch lock, but the slider lock is not playing at the moment. I get a small amount of clockwise turn on the key, but that's it. Is the slider lock like the cab doors with a latch, or like the hatch that turns 180 degrees? Also, the small catch inside the slider doesn't move - is this supposed to lock it from the inside?
Im guessing you have a late bay so the lock is probably in the door panel below the handle and not in the handle itself. it should be in the positing pointing to 9 oclock and you turn it down to 6 or up to 12 to lock or unlock. cheack the the inside latch isnt flicked down or siezed. the lock it attached to the mechnism by a bar this might have come off.
External handle escutcheon in the wrong way round? It works on the same principle as a deadbolt...key turns through 180° Also if you lock it from the outside, you can't unlock it from the inside... And to lock it from the inside, you have to set the latch safety pin/bolt by lifting the handle so it goes "click" Later vans with the separate barrel, did away with all these little idiosyncrasies!!
I have the lock in handle version, the key turns through 180 degrees. I spent 2 years thinking my lock was broken, but I had tried it in the wrong way ! The key large end ( if that makes sense ) faces the front door when locked....towards the back of the vehicle when open.
The internal handle (longer one side) was upside down, so the handle fouled the bulkhead, preventing the 'click'. Now it's the right way round, the door latches shut and the internal lock works. The external lock still only goes half way round, so a bit more work to do.
when you say the external lock only goes half way round. do you mean the chrome handle only moves half way travel through the recess in the door panel, or do you mean the key only turns 180 degrees? The key should only turn 180 degrees as said above. If the handle does not travel enough, this is down to adjustment in the cables inside the interior door panel.
The lock goes half way - I meant half of how far it should go, i.e. around 90 degrees, then it stops. Don't want to force it and break anything, although I did get some spare keys cut today just in case.
This http://www.vwheritage.com/vw_spares...p.product_pID_76099467_lang_EN_country_GB.htm Lives behind the outer handle... if it has been put in the wrong way (180° out) that would stop the lock from engaging
