Inside door handle won't open
You need remove the door panel maybe you have only a loose pull wire between the look door or door handle
SOURCE: 1999 Toyota Corolla interior door handle
There's two screws by the handle, pull those out and you'll see how it all connects on the inside. I was able to remove my broken one, and drill a hole into the plastic where it broke and reuse it - it's lasted over 4 years now.
SOURCE: 1995 Toyota Corolla Door Handle
My husband (who is a weight lifter) managed to bust our door handles three times during the hot summer months. It was about $35 for the not so fancy handles and installation, I think over $50 for someone to do the fancy painted handle (driver's side door). We had it done since I think at least one of the times, the door would have had to be dismantled.
FYI the Toyota dealer said that in the hot summer months, the door handles were the items ordered the most for Toyotas across the board. We don't live in a hot climate anymore, and havent had any problems with melted/broken handles.
SOURCE: How can I fix the door handle on the inside of 1999 Toyota Coroll
It's probably broken, or unhooked. Just take your inner door panel off, and you'll soon figure out what's happening. Sometimes the rods get bent, or they come off the clip, or just need adjusting. And sometimes the handle itself is broken, but you can do it!
SOURCE: Replace a door handle on a 98 toyota
you won't get a picture with step by step instructions unless you buy the proper toyota workshop manual and I think you have to take out a loan to pay it off as they are very expensive.
It is a matter of removing the armrest, door lock button,possibly the door mirror if it covers the trim, window winder if it has one, go around the perimeter of the door trim with a blade screwdriver or something flat like a bread knife and gently pry the trim away from the door panel, once it is loose you may have to lift it up as the weather strip may be part of the trim panel, once that is removed you will see plastic covering the door panel so you have to peel that away from the panel directly behind the door handle, there will be a metal rod running from the door handle to the lock, it is retained with a poastic type clip that you just pull back off the rod and remove the rod from the handle or the lock or both.
There will be holes in the door panel to give you access to the retaining nuts for the handle but you will need a small socket with extension arm to make the job a lot easier, if not you will have to use a ring spanner which will take a lot longer to do.
Hope this help you a little
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Either the latch has broken or the rod from the handle to the latch has come off. You will have to remove the inside covering of the door to access the handle to latch rod.Is this something you can do?
Not really! I'm a single, retired woman on a fixed income. Don't want to take it to Toyota because they are too expensive and being a woman I don't know who I can/cannot trust. I can open the door from the outside so I'm thinking it may be the handle and not the latch. Am I correct?
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