Joy of joys, the front passenger door would not unlock on our 2012 Skoda Octavia. I’m mostly the only person who uses it so that didn’t seem such a major deal, but it turns out to be an MOT fail if the doors won’t open so it had to be fixed.
Of course, actually getting to do the door mechanism when the door won’t open in the first place isn’t because it involves removing the door card. Removing the door card requires removing screws that are obstructed by the passenger seat.
Eventually after a lot of grubbing about in the foot well and careful application of many swearwords I managed to release the door card and remove it, only to find that there was still no way to get to the lock mechanism 🙁
