Door not opening/unlatching from outside; failed door latching/locking mechanism?

[austinporsche]

Collar?

I went to Pelican and found the following picture in the door latch "how to" tech article.

Do you mean the black plastic connector arm in this picture (green arrow)?

BTW, nice to know there's a Porsche recycler nearby in CenTex (I'm in Austin). I have four (4) 944s and I hope to get 2 complete cars out of them (one an auto to manual conversion and other an LS3 conversion), so maybe you'll be interested in the parts I don't need after I'm done (is there much of a market for 944 body parts: doors, glass, suspension, etc.?). FYI, I also have a 924S, 1973.5 911T and an '86 928S.

[itsnotanova]

Yes to the black piece the green arrow is pointing to. I only sell 1997-2004 986 parts for now. The 924/944 market is horrible to deal with. I bought 2 944's once and quickly got rid of them after dealing with the clientele for a few months. 25% of them are cool, 50% waste your time and the other 25% want to haggle over a $10 part. That was a few years back so maybe the ratios have gotten better because at this point they're probably all hard core 924/944 owners. Racers will probably be interested in the body parts and I've never met a racer that wasn't great to deal with. Unfortunately you just missed them at COTA two weeks ago.