Rob_Corsa
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
Location: Derbyshire
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I'm sure many others have had this problem cos I've had it on both my corsa's now. Ive just had to strip down the lock barrel and clean/rebuild it as I was having trouble locking/unlocking the drivers door.
The picture below shows everything in the lock assembly. Normally lock problems are caused by broken springs, worn slats or dirt.
If you are able to get a couple of passenger(less wear and internally same) door locks from the scrappers you should be able to build a new lock and save yourself a packet. Vauxhall want £50 for a new lock plus about an hours labour to fit(around £40 to £50) .
Basically once you have the lock assembly out of the door you just need to strip everything down, check for wear, clean everything and put back together lubing everything with lithium grease or the like.
Note: the slats are numbered 1-4 and their arrangement makes the lock specific to a certain key.
Also if you have problems with deadlocking/factory alarm then check that the dead-lock ring looks like the on in the picture. Part of this has a habit of breaking off and not contacting the micro-switch to deadlock/set alarm.
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Ally
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Registered: 2nd Jul 03
Location: Pontypool Drives: a Skoda
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Dude ... wrong forum?
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Rob_Corsa
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
Location: Derbyshire
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yeah realised that after i'd posted, dont know how to move it though. Sorry
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Mav 3000
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Registered: 16th Aug 01
Location: Leicestershire
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I had the problem with my card door - the lock sometimes wouldn't allow me to lock the door sometimes. Turns out it was the little pin on the deadlocking bit or something like that.
Vaux wanted a fortune for the spare, but a mate in the Vaux trade club got me one dirt chea as apparently its a common prob in the corsa.
I then delocked my doos, and haven't looked back since 
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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mine broke too, fixed it for a few quid, then broke again so delocked car and got a key fob fitted 
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