I don't know if anyone can offer more suggestions. We've been just living with the door messing up for the last many months. When we close the door, we just have to stand there and make sure it closes. If it opens back up, usually if we hit the button again, it closes.
Well, now the door is stuck shut. We can't get the door to open. I know it's a different problem to why the door won't close. The dealer says that problem is the actuator. The door is locked and they want to replace it. (This is what they told me a year ago or so.) But I just got to thinking I don't believe it's the actuator. The door won't open today because the lock is in the locked position and I can't get it to go unlocked. In the past, when this happens, I have to somehow get the door apart from the inside with the door closed, then loosen the door up a little and then shake it and get it to unlock. It's somehow binding and the actuator isn't strong enough to unlock it. But I can't get it to unlock just by moving it manually, so I doubt changing the actuator will fix it.
A few times in the past when we had this problem, if we'd drive the car, it would bounce the door around a little and free up whatever is messing it up and the door would start working again. It's not working today and it's still stuck shut and the door chimmer constantly chimes while I drive, which is really annoying.
I really don't want to take it to another shop. I know they're all fixing it to the book. The whole problem with the door is the design is flawed, so it can't be fixed by the book. Something in the basic design has to be changed. I don't know how I'm going to jimmy rig it yet, but I need to figure out something.