Q: My front passenger door will not unlock.
The front passenger door started giving trouble a couple days ago. It acted like it did not want to lock with key switch and then it would not unlock without being jiggled. Now, it is stuck in the locked position.
My car has 163000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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