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Double dumb Colorado door lock stunt
My brother just bought a new one 2 days ago.
I went to unlock it and discovered there is no way to unlock the passenger side door from the out side. Is this plain stupid or what?
Needless to say my brother is highly P O about this, especially since he's on oxygen and the lack of out side access through this locked door highly over taxes his breathing ability.
If it were me I'd just take the thing back to the dealer and demand my money back.
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Double dumb Colorado door lock stunt
He didn't get any remotes with it & there is nothing in any of the paper work or owners manual about the truck having keyless entry.
According to two salesmen at another Chevy DealerShip the Colorado is supposed to have a remote keyless entry lock on the passenger side door of the truck if the truck came equipped with the extra cost keyless entry option.
If it did not come with the keyless entry system the passenger side door is supposed to have a keyed lock on that door.
According to this my brother was supposed to get either a keyed lock or a remote lock for that door.
He did not get either one of them.
Since my brother can't unlock the door from outside the truck with a remote or a key I'd say he got ripped off or at least short changed.
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1*More people use their FOBs than do a key. so people have gone to the FOB and seldom use a key
2*I took the key chain from her and commenced to use the key to unlock her door. When I opened her door she stood there and told me how embarrassed she was for forgetting about using the key.
3*Tell him to wear one around his neck like he would a monitor.
wingwiper
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1*There is no Fob for his Colorado so he can't get the door open with that.
2*My brother has a key but how do you use it in a door handle that has no key slot in it?
3*He can't do that when he don't have one.
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Here in his own words is why the passenger door that can't be unlocked from outside the Vehicle is such a BIG ISSUE to My Brother.
I have run into a problem with the Colorado. This is more of a handicap accessibility issue than anything else.
I didn't know that the passenger side door did not have a key lock.
This was my normal routine (my old truck S10)--I would take the tanks out to my truck, unlock the passenger side door, lay the tanks on the floor, close the door, go around to the driver side door, unlock it, get in, and drive away.
Here is the new routine (my new truck Colorado)--Take the tanks out to my truck, lay the tanks in the truck bed, go around to the driver side door, unlock it, get in, slide over toward the passenger side, unlock passenger side door, slide back out of driver side, go around to passenger side, open the door, take tanks out of truck bed and lay them on the floor, close the door, go around to driver side again, get in, and drive away.
Every movement, like bending, lifting, reaching will tax my breathing and I have to stop and rest a couple of minutes, Between each movement to catch my breath. In the scenario above I walk around the truck three times. I also have to slide across the seat enough that I can reach the door to unlock it and slide back out of the truck. And I have to get in the truck twice. With a key lock door I only walk around the truck once and that is to get in the truck once.
I never heard of a door with no way to open it from the outside if it was locked.
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As you must surely realize from my brothers comments above the un lockable door causes him undue physical stress and discomfort.
It may not bother the able-bodied but the door lock thing is a big deal for those like my bother and others who are handicapped or disabled.
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r bought a truck with MANUAL LOCKS and no Power locks, it is very possible not to have a cylinder on the passenger door.
2*If he has Power locks, then he can push the unlock button on the drivers door and it will unlock the passenger door as well.
3*If he does NOT have Power Locks, then he may check with a Local Car Starter Retailer and see if that can be added with a Starter, inexpensively.
******* wingwiper 2006-10-23 Post: 136222 *********
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1* It's possible but it's not supposed to happen.
According to 2 salesmen we talked with when my wife and I went shopping for a new Colorado,
All passenger side doors on this truck are un lockable from outside of the truck. It don't matter if it's equipped with power locks, keyless entry or manual locks. There is not supposed to be any such thing as a passenger side door that can't be un locked from outside the Vehicle. Considering this my brother paid for an un lockable P S D but he didn't get what he paid for.
2*Even if he could do this it wouldn't help him much as he would still have to make extra unnecessary trips around the truck.
3*He should not have to pay anybody for what should have been on the truck when he bought it!
According to the 2 Salesmen we talked to he was supposed to get a door on the Passenger Side that can be unlocked from outside. He didn't get it so he got taken on that.
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1*Who said it was supposed to come with a Passenger side Lock?
2*They don't make them that way anymore.
3*If You do NOT have Keyless Entry, he did NOT pay for an outside access to a door lock, because that is NOT how they are made and it is NOT an option.
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2006-10-23
Post: 136230
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1*See below
2* This applies to Trucks having remote keyless entry only ~~ See below.
3*Not so according the 2 salesman ~ See Below.
My wife and I went shopping for a new Colorado:
We very intensively grilled the 2 Salesmen we talked to about the Passenger Side door lock.
Here is how they explained it to us ---> There are 2 door handles for the passengers side door of the Colorado.
One is blank with no key slot in It for trucks having the keyless remote entry system.
The other door handle has a key lock with a key slot in it for trucks with manual locks.
From this it's obvious they slipped up on the assembly line and installed the wrong door handle in my brothers truck.
They owe him a free exchange of door handles.
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1. If right door lock is so important how come he missed it?
2* Did it not come up in the sales process?
3*Have checked to see if it was supposed to have remote locks?
4*Is it not possible to place the tank(s) behind the driver's seat?
5* as to tanks, does he have to have more than one in the cabin?
6*Why could the tanks not be secured in tank rake in the bed?
7* fat head keys.
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1*After over 40 years of buying cars that always had unlockable doors why would the thought to question it ever cross his mind?
2*Aparently not.
3*No but your question sparked a thought that never occurred to me before. I've been looking at it as they put the wrong door handle on it on the assembly line. perhaps in reality it has the correct door handle but they put the wrong lock system on it on the assembly line instead.
Any way you look at it according to the dealer I shopped at there was a screw up during the production of his truck.
4* Wouldn't work because he has to have easy quick access to the next tank when he runs out oxygen in the tank he's using. Same problem with having the tanks in the bed.
5* yes due to the need for quick easy access to spare tanks.
6*Also this would expose the tanks to tampering theft or vandalism.
He don't have to go to this expense and inconvenience when he uses his car so why should he have to put up with it with the truck? Especially if there was a production mistake on his truck!
7*Hate fat headed keys too.
The CC garden tractor I just purchased has them also. I may take a jig saw and trim it down and grind or wire brush off the plastic coating or see if I can get extra keys made with sensible heads on them.
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Ibrown - are the handles color coded to the vehicle or just black? If they are just black the dealer should be able to switch out the handle for the one with the lock without too much trouble. I am sure the autoworker just grabbed the handle from the wrong bin.
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Switching handles seems like an easy reasonable fix to me.
What I don't understand is his dealer making such a mountain out of a mole hill over doing that..
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