Spinning locks on 2001 Citroen Jumpy (Dispatch)

Citroen Jumpy (Dispatch) · 2023-05-23 17:13:27

Hello everyone!

I just bought a 2001 Citroen Jumpy (Dispatch) and am having issues with all the locks. It is impossible lock the doors, the key just keeps spinning inside the lock. It is like this for all the locks on the van.

The van doesn't have a remote key, no idea if it has central locking since I can't try it. It is possible to lock the doors from inside with the button on the door.

From my research I have gathered that this is a common issue on these vans and that it can be fixed by replacing the lock cylinders. Is this the case? And if so, does anyone have a video on how to do it? I can't seem to find many posts about this issue online and the few I can find explain the process on how to remove the old cylinders in a way I don't fully understand. Thanks

kenbw2 · 2023-05-23 19:22:23

Yea common issue. The barrels are easy enough to replace - you need to take the handle out using the screws that hold them in - they're on the side of the door.

Which ones are spinning for you?

One trick that worked on my 806 actually was getting a new key cut. That stopped them spinning. Maybe worth a try before changing the barrels?

AlvyLad · 2023-05-23 19:50:42

kenbw2 wrote:

getting a new key cut. That stopped them spinning. Maybe worth a try before changing the barrels?

On the same day, I bought mine, I couldn't lock, then unlock mine. It still is the same, key works one way ONLY, if I was to insert it with bigger edge up- it'll spin- do nothing.

Citroen Jumpy (Dispatch) · 2023-05-23 20:54:50

Thanks for the help!

All locks on my van are spinning out. The two front doors, the sliding door and the rear door.

I found replacement lock cylinders on Amazon and decided to buy them.

So in onder to change a cylinder I need to remove the entire door handle? I can't find screws on the side of the door that hold the handle on.

I was able to pop off a little square plastic piece around the lock, that revealed the cylinder. I can see a ring with two notches in it. Do I need to do something with that ring?

kenbw2 · 2023-05-23 21:44:55

That square piece is just decoration. You do have to remove it, but it's not holding the barrel in

For the sliding doors it's these. Undo them, and the handle should come loose. Be careful, there are some metal rods, and you'll have to unhook them, remmebering where they were for reassembly

For the front doors, I'm trying to remember. I think you have to take the plastic door card off, which is a pile of screws around the edge, then one tiny one through the access hole (yea, it's a bitch to get to) that holds the mirror adjustment in place, and three behind the speaker grile

Once you have the handle out, you'll see two little wings on the lock barrel. Those are what's keeping the barrel in place. Push the little access holes onto the wings to compress them. At the same time, encourage the barrel out of the handle

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Citroen Jumpy (Dispatch) · 2023-05-23 22:11:10

This is very helpful! I'll give it a go tomorrow when the new locks arrive smile

Citroen Jumpy (Dispatch) · 2023-05-25 20:38:51

Managed to replace all locks and now it works perfectly!

Thank you for the help!

kenbw2 · 2023-05-26 02:18:50

I don't understand. Where were the unexpected difficulties? The rusted bolt you couldn't remove? The swearing?

It can't have been that easy

Citroen Jumpy (Dispatch) · 2023-05-26 16:30:53

English isn't my first language, thought I'll quickly tell I succeeded. But you're right, unfortunately it wasn't without difficulties neutral

The sliding door was very easy to do. I undid the two bolts in the picture you added and the handle just popped out. I did not have to unhook the metal rods connected to it, plenty of space with those still connected. Pushed in the little metal "wing" that holds the old cylinder in with a screwdriver and pried the old cylinder out in no time. The new cylinder just slid right in using a little silicone spray, pushed the handle back in, did the screws and it was done! Locked perfectly.

The rear door was more difficult. There were three screws holding the handle in behind plastics "caps". Undoing those loosened the handle, but I couldn't pull it out very far. So I thought that this time I did need to undo the metal rods. This is where the swearing started haha. I just couldn't find a way to undo them, there was no space and no way to even get my hands close. After fighting with it for a while I forgot what I was trying to do. I just needed to get the cylinder out, not the handle perse. Even tho there was barely any space, I just managed to use the same trick used on the sliding door. Pushed in the "wing" on the lock with a screwdriver river and got it out with the handle still mostly in the door. smile

Now the front doors... those were the worst. I wasn't the first one going in. There were already a bunch of missing screws and broken clips. But that doesn't really matter. Got the door card off pretty quickly, I have done this before on other vehicles. Then it was time to undo the screws for the handle. Easy enough if I wasn't an idiot... The be as efficient as possible I used a drill to speed thing up. Worked perfectly until now. The lower of the two screws came right out, the upper screw was a different story... I managed to strip out the bolt with the drill. More swearing. Tried getting it out a bunch of ways without luck, so as the final measure I decided to drill it out. This caused the metal insert in the plastic of the handle to freely spin. I hope you understand what I mean. Eventually I got it out with manhandling the drill and breaking the head of the bolt off with some pliers. Victory I thought! But the rest of the process also did not go very smooth. I'll keep things short, but at first I couldn't remove the handle, then couldn't get it back in, then realized I put it back in without reconnecting the metal rods. A lot of fun.

Thought I knew all the tricks for the other front door, but on that side one of the screws for the handle was cross threaded, so it had to come out with the same violence usage of the drill. Oh and I managed to make the same mistake of not reconnecting the metal rods... All in all this door did go a lot faster.

After all that there it was. An old van that has working locks and front door handles held in with one screw instead of two.

kenbw2 · 2023-05-27 00:58:16

Haha that's more like it wink With the scratched hands too I assume. I can imagine your reaction when you realised you'd put it back together and forgotten the rods

My favourite story was replacing the sliding door handle, sliding the door shut and congratulating myself on a job well done. Then realising the door was locked. With my keys inside the van. And my phone in the van. And I was parked in the middle of nowhere.

So I had to find wooden sticks and break in to the handle I'd just fitted. Dammit.

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AlvyLad · 2023-05-27 15:41:33

kenbw2 wrote:

Haha that's more like it senior moment
. Dammit.

Happens to the best of us tongue

kenbw2 · 2023-05-27 15:59:08

Hey I'm not that senior yet!

AlvyLad · 2023-05-27 17:39:59

kenbw2 wrote:

Hey I'm not that senior yet!

I'll be the judge of that wink

Does it fit you?

Then you are as an old fa4t, just like everyone else! tongue

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