ahebron Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Now I might be wrong here but bear with me.I am rebuilding the doors on my Vitesse 6 in preparation for fitting them to the body.I had a look at the outside door handles and as we know the right one has a key lock and the left one just a button press, on lhd cars it will be the other way round.A minutes staring and I came up with the idea of taking a barrel out of a spare rh door handle and swapping out the press button on the lh one. It all went surprisingly easy and looks like it will work once I get the locks keyed alike.But will it work and is this all that is needed to convert both doors to key locks?ThanksAdrian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marktheherald Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Early cars had key locks on both sides... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Quoted Text Early cars had key locks on both sides... although they were a different type of lock.ISTR that to get the doors to operate 'normally' i.e. release from the inside, you need to remove (or move) a pin in the mechanism. BUT, I am not familliar with the operation of door locks, catches.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulfosh Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 should work from what I remember all the lock does is stop you pushing the button in . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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