[brandon200317]

Originally Posted by trology

My latch on my 2006 aveo5 quit working and since the dealer wanted $100 just to look at it, I decieded to tear into it and see if I could save some bucks.

I had to let down the back seat and down where the inside latch is, there is a trip button to release the latch which I did.

After opening I push in the plastic panel interior pins and pulled them out of the interior panel and unscewed 2 panel screws by the handle pocket and removed the panel (5min) .

The handle on the outside is supposed to be connected to the rod which when pulled, moves the rod down which pulls ever so lightly accross to the the release latch. The rod had poped out out of the handle retaining hole. You could operate the latch easly by pulling the rod that runs across to the the hatch latch so I knew that part was OK.

The rod would not stay in the handle and I am sure this bad design will show up with other Aveo owners.

The fix is to put the rod back into the connector and plug into the handle hole. then zip tie the connector to the handle arm and since the zip might try and slide off go ahead coat the entire connection lightly with shoe-goo or silicone and put the door back together (5min) and this should last as mine has lasted fine ever since.

You can razor cut the zip tie and silicone if you ever need to remove the handle.

Thanks
Tim

Extremely common with these.. some i've actually seen the clip that holds the rod in broken, others i'm pretty sure theres a quality control issue from Dewoo because i hook it back up and seems pretty secure. just curious.. how many miles on your vehicle at the time you brought it in?