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Hey everyone,
I have a few problems that have just cropped up. If anyone has any idea on how I could possibly fix these on my own (if it's possible) or recommend that I see a dealer / repair shop it'd be greatly appreciated.
1) My passenger side front door does not close. Period. If you bring it to the closed position it just sits there... no click. When I drive I need someone to hold the door shut so it doesn't swing open while I turn. This is VERY annoying.
2) My passenger side rear door does not open. Period. No matter how hard I push up or down on the lock it will not come unlocked. This is very inconvenient. Using the electrical locking mechanism doesn't do a thing. It's just shut.
3) My dome light just popped down. I shut my trunk and when I got in the car the light was hanging down... I tried (rather unsuccessfully) to reseat it but couldn't get it to stay. I turned the light on then used its hooks to get it back in. It's staying but it feels very loose. Should I have any concerns about this.
4) Somewhere under the hood I'm leaking antifreeze fluid. My antifreeze fluid might have frozen (you'll know why in a minute) and I'm afraid that it might have split a hose. How should I go about fixing this?
Okay, so those are my current main problems. Other than that, the car runs perfectly well. But here's where my current situation sucks:
I live at school right now (Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH). Anyone who knows where that is will know that there's nothing around me. The nearest Saab dealership is 45 minutes away in Concord. The weather here has been brutal. The HIGHEST temperature we've seen here in about two weeks has been about 15-20 degrees farenheit. At nightit stays normally around -10 degrees. It HAS reached -15 degrees at times. For instance, as I write this it is -8 degrees. See for yourself:
http://www.weather.com/weather/local/03755?lswe=03755&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndeclared
or go to http://www.weather.com and type in 03755 under city or zip code.
Needless to say I've had a few frozen locks. I thought that the locks themselves were just frozen so I would pull the locks physically to the unlocked position. This worked sometimes and then the electric locks would work. But TODAY. Boy oh boy today has been one of the worst. I got in my car and tried starting it. No juice. I figured that I'd try getting it started by putting it into gear from a roll. No luck there: the car would just come to a gradual stop. I kept trying the key and it got to the point where it would just start clicking. I figured that was normal for a dead battery but what I figured WASN'T normal was the fact that my locks for some reason kept popping up and down... with or without the key in the ignition at all. That sort of freaked me out. I got the car jumped, went to Sears and got a new battery. Now all I needed was to get my radio code and I was okay. I stopped my car at my dorm, went inside for about 5 hours then came out to it. At this point the rear passenger door wouldn't open, the front passenger door stopped closing, and then the thing with the dome lamp. The front passenger door has acted up in the past... basically it was always hard to open. You'd really have to tug at the handle to get it to open... now that isn't a problem at all.
The antifreeze leak began about two weeks ago but, seeing as how I only drive my car on the weekends, I hadn't put too much thought into it.
Upon playing with the door mechanism (ie sticking my pen in the latching piece and moving it left to right and back) I have found that it is relatively loose only offering very slight resistance. The driver side door, on the other hand, will not budge merely with a pen. Has anyone heard of this happening? Is my car door in need of some sort of rough surgery? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated (my car is sitting in front of my door, hanging open probably, bereft of any valuables...).
Thanks for your time!
- Eric Robinson
Dartmouth College '05
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