Stuck rear door - how to remove door card?

[BrianG]

Quite without warning my rear nearside door lock failed this morning when my wife tried to open it to put stuff on the back seat. I thought that perhaps the remote electric system had a fault and had not unlocked, but at least I would be able to unlock it manually from inside. No! the interior handles do absolutely nothing. The question is how to get the door card off to see what the problem is inside. It looks as though I won't be able to get this off as the rear seat is in the way. Anyone have any dodges to avoid this?

[iRS]

Brian, there was something in a recent Jaguar magazine recently about how someone managed to open a stuck door by electrical means, leaving the door car intact. I'll see if I can dig it out.

[Andy P]

Hi Brian,
You could try a hard reset.
That's the first thing I would do.
Good luck.
Andy

[iRS]

Found it.

It will be interetsing to see if this works for you.

[Andy P]

Lets hope IRS's workaround does the trick.
Have found this on jaguarforums.com which might help as well.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/xj-x ... en-157500/
Good luck and take care.
Andy

[BrianG]

Thanks IRS, I will certainly give that a try. I normally double-lock the car so that would explain why the handles inside are not working.

[BrianG]

An update:
I bought a used latch assembly on eBay, to see how it worked as much as anything else, and was waiting for a suitable gap in the recent wet weather to start removing the trim in the boot to get to the rear module and wiring. I had been out in the car previously and the rear door was still stuck, but when I unlocked the car this time the rear door unlocked itself too! Several lock/unlock/deadlock cycles with the remote fob have been unable to fault it since. The mechanism must be a bit sticky, so I'll leave well alone unless it goes wrong again. Another gremlin.