Car is better.

...used a littlegreen garden wire...

Ok, I went back into the door panel yesterday. I don't think I did anything wrong, I think there may have been a clip there before holding the rod from the latch to the hole it goes in on the outside door handle.

I jerry-rigged it and used a little green garden wire to attach the two together, made sure it had enough wiggle-room to move, opened, shut, opened the door, rolled down the window... etc. It works perfectly now. No more climbing through, no more opening only from the inside. No more can't-open-the-window stuffiness.

Yay me!!

Car is still stupid.

...I drove after that with a Bungee Cord holding my door shut...

Yesterday I fixed my car. Yes, I got greasy and gross. Well, only a little.
After work I went to a junk yard and spent $35 on the latch for my driver-side door. I've been getting in and out through the passenger side for about 2 weeks now and I was getting sick of it. Yesterday... Sunday? Sometime... I went to my friend Esther's and her BF got the door open for me... Sunday. Yeah, Sunday. Anyway, so he got the door open and I drove around after that with a Bungee Cord holding my door shut...


So like I said, went to the junk yard and got a new latch. Came home and put it in. I was so excited, like... look how cool I am! C'mon! Then... then my BF asks me "Can you roll the window down?" So I tried. Like yes, of course I can.... uh. No.
I rolled down my window and it opened my fricken door. So later today I get to open up the door panel again and find out where I went wrong.
When I did that it also loosened the bar that goes to the outside door handle. So I can get out ok, but I have to open the door from the inside to get it open to get back in.
Grr.