Making it so doors do not unlock with interior door handle pull

[Jeep Willys]

Has anyone made it so their doors don’t unlock with the interior door handle pull?

I thought that if i unhooked the lock cable that it would be an easy fix. It wasn’t. Door still unlocked with interior door handle pull.

Im assuming I have to go into the latch mechanism and remove or block something. Has anyone done this ?

I want to be able to lock my doors with my key and have my top off and not worry about my doors walking away because you can just open them and remove them. If they are locked with key and only able to be unlocked with the key, they won’t walk away.

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[bjm00se]

If you "lock" the jeep, the alarm will go off if they're opened in this way. That plus leaving the torx bolts in place, plus the hassle of unplugging the cable ought to be enough to deter casual thieves, no?

I've had cars where the interior handle was broken, and to open the door I had to roll down the window and actuate the external handle, which seems to be what you're proposing.

It was a pain in the ass. I can't imagine *wanting* to do that.

If I were that concerned about theft, rather than disable the handle, I'd probably run a cable bike lock through the window openings of the front and back door together, which would serve to lock both doors to the roll bar. And I'd only have to do the hassle when I was parked at a worrisome spot, and could bypass it while, e.g. just dashing into 7-11 for a pack of cokes.

My two cents. Adjusted for inflation: basically worthless.

 

[Reinen]

If you're worried about someone reaching in, unlocking your door from the inside, setting off the alarm, unbolting the doors, disconnecting the wiring harness, lifting the doors out of the hinges and walking off with heavy as hell doors all while the alarm is beeping away...

You should move to a less crappy neighborhood or replace your jeep with an appropriately crappy vehicle that your neighborhood would ignore.

Seriously, what you're talking about doesn't happen. If thieves want your doors they will take the entire Jeep to a chop shop and sell off ALL the parts, including the doors. It's significantly easier. It's much more likely someone will just hop in, rummage through the center console and glove box looking for change and whatever other contents they can easily run off with.

 

[playademan]

If you're worried about someone reaching in, unlocking your door from the inside, setting off the alarm, unbolting the doors, disconnecting the wiring harness, lifting the doors out of the hinges and walking off with heavy as hell doors all while the alarm is beeping away...

You should move to a less crappy neighborhood or replace your jeep with an appropriately crappy vehicle that your neighborhood would ignore.

Seriously, what you're talking about doesn't happen. If thieves want your doors they will take the entire Jeep to a chop shop and sell off ALL the parts, including the doors. It's significantly easier. It's much more likely someone will just hop in, rummage through the center console and glove box looking for change and whatever other contents they can easily run off with.

While I agree with your general sentiment , I’ve seen cars get all 4 wheels jacked and left on blocks so if they can do that , taking the doors would still be possible. Although I’m guessing wheels and tires can be a little more lucrative than doors.

 

[Jay_Jeep]

Honestly, with the full doors and the door check in the JL’s (which is a PIA) I doubt anyone will take full doors. I don’t even worry about my half doors too much but I do install the hinge nuts as an added safety precaution to deter anyone from taking them. Summer, there usually is no doors so nothing to take but my iPhone charger if I forget to put it in the center console and I’ve never even had that taken. I’ve had Jeeps for 25 years and never had a set of doors taken, of course I’m sure it’s happened.

 

[azjl#3]

Sounds like you want to try to get a child safe lock like rear doors have on the front. Ok, now you get in a car crash, forget to undo whatever you have, how do you get out of the burning vehicle?

 

[Jeep Willys]

I am glad that one of you can read and is intelligent enough to realize that other people have different life experiences than you.

How can you not understand the basic, simplest question I am asking ? It’s really.. I don’t know, almost impressive?

How could you read anything I wrote and get the idea that I just want to break the interior door handle and make it so it doesn’t have one. Any idiot could do that. Maybe even these smooth brains, who commented in here, could figure out how to break the handle so it doesn’t work, but then again they might not be able to based on the comments.

if you have no experience with modifying your vehicle and aren’t capable of doing it. Why bother commenting on my thread where all I want to do is find other people who work on their own jeeps and want to find solutions to problems? Just go eat your buggers in peace somewhere else.

Has anyone modified their doors so that the door handle pull does not do an automatic unlock ? When I had mine apart it did not look like it was going to be an easy mod with opening up the actual latch. Has anyone had one of these latches apart ?

 

[RubiBlueJLU]

Have you looked through the manual? Pages 24-30 talk about the security system, door locks included.
Maybe these settings could achieve what you want.

 

[J.Ferreira]

While I agree with your general sentiment , I’ve seen cars get all 4 wheels jacked and left on blocks so if they can do that , taking the doors would still be possible. Although I’m guessing wheels and tires can be a little more lucrative than doors.

The difference being that you can jack a vehicle up and remove all the wheels and put it back down on blocks without the alarm ever going off.

 

[Zandcwhite]

I am glad that one of you can read and is intelligent enough to realize that other people have different life experiences than you.

How can you not understand the basic, simplest question I am asking ? It’s really.. I don’t know, almost impressive?

How could you read anything I wrote and get the idea that I just want to break the interior door handle and make it so it doesn’t have one. Any idiot could do that. Maybe even these smooth brains, who commented in here, could figure out how to break the handle so it doesn’t work, but then again they might not be able to based on the comments.

if you have no experience with modifying your vehicle and aren’t capable of doing it. Why bother commenting on my thread where all I want to do is find other people who work on their own jeeps and want to find solutions to problems? Just go eat your buggers in peace somewhere else.

Has anyone modified their doors so that the door handle pull does not do an automatic unlock ? When I had mine apart it did not look like it was going to be an easy mod with opening up the actual latch. Has anyone had one of these latches apart ?

I am assuming you're talking a manual lock version, as the powered locks lock automatically when you drive which would make this mod super annoying. That being said, modifying the passenger door this way still creates the potential death trap scenario those smooth brains tried warning you of. You're by yourself so you only unlock the drivers door, get in, start driving. Accident/ incident occurs that sets the vehicle on fire or has it filling with water etc, but the drivers door is also blocked? Good luck finding the key and reaching out the passengers side to unlock and save yourself.

 

[Jeep Willys]

Have you looked through the manual? Pages 24-30 talk about the security system, door locks included.
Maybe these settings could achieve what you want.

unfortunately it does not. I am going to have to modify the latch in some manner mechanically

 

[Jeep Willys]

I am assuming you're talking a manual lock version, as the powered locks lock automatically when you drive which would make this mod super annoying. That being said, modifying the passenger door this way still creates the potential death trap scenario those smooth brains tried warning you of. You're by yourself so you only unlock the drivers door, get in, start driving. Accident/ incident occurs that sets the vehicle on fire or has it filling with water etc, but the drivers door is also blocked? Good luck finding the key and reaching out to unlock and save yourself.

while concern is appreciated, it’s really a moot point. The rear hatch is like that from the factory but no one in this tread has an issue that it doesn’t even have a way to open from the inside at all.

Cars have been made this way for the past 50 years and the majority of people have managed to survive.

the chances of a wreck happening, are way less than someone stealing doors, and a wreck where it’s so awful that I need an escape and I can’t remove top, door wasn’t unlocked, so many other things lining up for me to not be able to get out, it’s not even a statistical worry. It’s never happened to anyone I know. I’ve never even heard of it happening to anyone I know. One tesla accident in the history of mankind where they claimed that it was an issue is the only time I’ve ever heard of it.

I’ve known people who have had wheels stolen (that’s why I have wheel locks), I’ve heard people having tops and doors stolen. My cousin even bought a jeep that that specifically happened to and totaled the TJ out.

I just want to find a way to lock my doors and they not be able to be unlocked by simply pulling the door handle to unlock them. That’s it.

 

[Ratbert]

while concern is appreciated, it’s really a moot point. The rear hatch is like that from the factory but no one in this tread has an issue that it doesn’t even have a way to open from the inside at all.

Cars have been made this way for the past 50 years and the majority of people have managed to survive.

the chances of a wreck happening, are way less than someone stealing doors, and a wreck where it’s so awful that I need an escape and I can’t remove top, door wasn’t unlocked, so many other things lining up for me to not be able to get out, it’s not even a statistical worry. It’s never happened to anyone I know. I’ve never even heard of it happening to anyone I know. One tesla accident in the history of mankind where they claimed that it was an issue is the only time I’ve ever heard of it.

I’ve known people who have had wheels stolen (that’s why I have wheel locks), I’ve heard people having tops and doors stolen. My cousin even bought a jeep that that specifically happened to and totaled the TJ out.

I just want to find a way to lock my doors and they not be able to be unlocked by simply pulling the door handle to unlock them. That’s it.

You know why you don't hear a lot of stories about people getting trapped in their vehicles? Could it possibly be related to those doors unlocking automatically when you pull on the lever? Any chance of that?

And seriously: your cousin had a TJ that was totaled due to having its tops and doors stolen?

 

[Flip]

I don't know!

You could contact a dealership, maybe they could help you or have some kind of input.

I actually like the way the door unlocks just by pulling the handle but I also have a hardtop and I don't have children. I think your preferred method sounds somewhat dangerous but it's your Jeep do whatever you want to it.

Best of luck with your mod.

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No punt intended to the OP.

 

[Jeep Willys]

are you 18?

If not I guarantee you grew up in cars that didn’t unlock when you pulled the door handles. Until the past 10 years no cars even had the feature.


And why is it so hard to believe that someone stealing a $1500 hard top and $1500 doors off a $5000 car totals it ?


All I want is to have my doors not unlock with the interior door handle pull. Has anyone done this or had a latch apart ?

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