I'm replacing the basement compartment door lock motors. I did replace two last summer but at the time I was told the "gun style" actuators are no longer available so I had to get a different style and modify the mounting. I have a thread on that project here somewhere.
It turns out the gun style are still available so I bought six, and started to install them today. Every door on my Coach has the actuator seized.
If they seize in the locked position you can not unlock the door (even the key wont work to unlock it). so I removed the lock actuators from the front Elec bay door and the AquaHot compartment. I just leave those locked, and I'll just use the key if I need access. I don't want to risk having a bad door lock actuator relay and then not being able to open the Electric Bay door to get to the relay.
Here's why I'm posting.
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Why Beaver didn't you cut the opening in the door panel large enough to remove the door lock actuator/motor?
Come on... anyone assembling this Coach could see there was a problem and it would have been an easy fix then. And to make matters worse, the inner panel is riveted to the door frame so you can't easily cut the opening larger. There was no reason for this oversight.
You can see (photo below) the extra work someone did to cut the panel around the lock actuator - instead of just making the rectangular opening a little bigger which would have been less work for the assembler. It took twice as long to replace these door lock actuators since I had to cut every opening to get the old parts out. Jeeze.
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I feel better now.