2017 Super Duty Door Locks Binding

[Keith Browning]

I ran across a 2017 F550 that had the front door panels removed at some point to paint the vehicle. It seems that the interior door handle cable is secured to the door panel in a way that when removing the door panel it is easy to put a decent kink in the cable causing it to bind. See the green circles in the picture. On this truck it even caused the door latch to not latch unless you locked the door first. So use care when removing these door panels and make sure they are not bent and everything works smoothly and properly before returning the truck to the customer. FYI  since the anchors were mostly broken I left the cables un tethered which looked like is not an issue at all.

[Keith Browning]

I'll bet this is related to safety recall 17S33

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