Problem with door locks

redneckred
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 01:29:28 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

I am fixing up a 2009 Cobalt for my daughter to drive she got/we bought from her brother. We are the 3rd owners of the car, but my son and his brother-in-law whom he bought it from were hard on the car. My problem is with the door locks. Using the only remote he had/gave us, when you “unlock” the doors, the locks will generally unlock. Driving they generally lock when putting it in gear and unlock when taking it out of gear. When you manually lock/unlock the doors inside, that’s when problems tend to start, or when making numerous stops in town. The locks “click” like they lock, but they may not move all the way into lock mode. Clicking the remote again sometimes fixes the problem, and sometimes a manual locking of the door works, but not always. Do I have an electrical problem or do I have a door lock(s) going out? When you use the remote the next day, the car works fine as long as the locks aren’t used a lot/numerous times.

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