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HELP!! SOS!! -eek--eek-
What started as a minor inconvenience developed into a crisis. I can't open the driver's door, from the inside or the outside!!!!

It started, I guess, a month ago. Occasionally, after I got in the Elise the door wouldn't be solidly latched. When I opened the door from outside, the door button (the thing in which you can insert a key) didn't snap back. I would have to pull the door again from inside, or fiddle with the inside latch. This state of affairs got progressively worse until tonight. No matter what I did, the door stayed loose. I must have tried various things maybe a dozen times. Then I pushed the door lock switch and that held it tight.
However, when I got home, I couldn't open the door no matter what. If I flipped the door lock switch or the key fob, the lock knob (for want of a better term) alternated between being all the way down and being part way down. It never went all the way up. Regardless, the door wouldn't open. Fortunately, I could get out through the passenger door.
How do I open the driver's door????
(I've got an idea - I didn't try pulling the locking knob up.)
(It could be worse. The locks on my Saturn wagon had deteriorated so that I had to open the trunk, crawl in, and use a coat hanger to unlock the driver's door.)
This is an '06, still under warranty.
Any ideas?
What started as a minor inconvenience developed into a crisis. I can't open the driver's door, from the inside or the outside!!!!
It started, I guess, a month ago. Occasionally, after I got in the Elise the door wouldn't be solidly latched. When I opened the door from outside, the door button (the thing in which you can insert a key) didn't snap back. I would have to pull the door again from inside, or fiddle with the inside latch. This state of affairs got progressively worse until tonight. No matter what I did, the door stayed loose. I must have tried various things maybe a dozen times. Then I pushed the door lock switch and that held it tight.
However, when I got home, I couldn't open the door no matter what. If I flipped the door lock switch or the key fob, the lock knob (for want of a better term) alternated between being all the way down and being part way down. It never went all the way up. Regardless, the door wouldn't open. Fortunately, I could get out through the passenger door.
How do I open the driver's door????
(I've got an idea - I didn't try pulling the locking knob up.)
(It could be worse. The locks on my Saturn wagon had deteriorated so that I had to open the trunk, crawl in, and use a coat hanger to unlock the driver's door.)
This is an '06, still under warranty.
Any ideas?