Car door jammed

[AbsolutelyClueless]

Hi,

My mother in law was closing the back passenger door and the seat belt seemed to get stuck on impact. But after I got home, the door wouldn't open (trying from the insides and outside).

Unfortunately, due to other things going on, I left it until today to try and prise and open. The seat belt came out unaffected which shocked me as I thought that has got jammed in the handle but still the door is not opening. I assume something has happened in the latch where the handle is to prevent it from opening?

I know I will have to take to a garage but any indications of what it could be would be helpful.

In addition to the delay (my fault, which I hold my hands up. Can't blame the mil for that), the car Battery has gone as it would have been alerting that a door was open. I'm hesitant to try to manually lock it incase it doesn't open up! Praying it's not damaged my Battery permanently as I had a new one put in a few years ago.

Part of this is mil fault and mostly mine as I'm clueless on cars and stick my head in the sand so any informative advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you

[Cyker]

Hmm, something similar to this happened to someone a year or so ago with a bag strap and the boot lid - The strap had gotten jammed in the latch, preventing it from unlatching; They had to open up the boot lid from inside to get at the latch mechanism to force it open.

If this is similar it's going to require a lot of precision poking to try and release the seat belt from the latch; Worst case, the webbing will need to be cut and pulled through which will require a new seat belt roll...

[AbsolutelyClueless]

Thanks. However in my case, the seatbelt - which I assumed had fully jammed in the passenger door - has come out without a scratch.

I'm guessing it's presence caused it to jam in the first place but it's lead to further issues. I've tried to open it but no joy. I'm going to need to call roadside assistance home to start the car so perhaps they might have some tools to prise it carefully open 🤞🏽

[avensis_2018]

hi, first check the inside latch kids that its on off position, if not move it, if yes, open the window,  you should play with it with your hands with power on and off and try to open the door from inside and outside same time and keep on playing with this kids latch and door handle till it will open and it will ! 

i hade same thing on same door in the end i open the panels both doors, and stuck the door latch on off position.

don't go to mechanic it will make damage and will take lot of money for that and.... it will happhand to you again if you wont solve it like i did = perfect !

seams like its kind of staring problem its not the fist time i hear it with this bad door mechanism with the avensis .

look here simple in the end done this simple and effective never had problems again:

 

[AbsolutelyClueless]

All sorted thankfully. Once the car was started (the Battery was dead), he was able to open the door quite easily from the inside. No damage to the door other than a scratch. I assume the dashboard light killing the Battery caused the locking to go haywire. My bad to some extent, panicked and put my head in the sand. But just need to keep my car started for a few hours as the reading the AA guy gave was 2 and it needs to be at 50.