Thanks for the response guys. Okay, it's been really cold lately so I thought that might have something to do with the problem as well. Usually the car is parked outside so I brought it into the garage overnight last night to let it "thaw" and see if that would fix the problem. Unfortunately, it didn't. Nothing has changed.
As far as the tension on the handles... the handles feel the exact same way as if the car was locked. Meaning, the tension (or lack thereof) is what it normally is when I try to open the car door when it's locked. There's no little catch (or click) when I pull on the handles like there should be when the car is unlocked. Because of this the latch is not disengaging because the handles are not telling it to, basically.
Now, as far as the info given in the other thread, I don't think the slim jim is going to help me. The car's locks unlock and lock perfectly fine. The problem is getting the handles to recognize that the car is unlocked and to catch (or click) when I pull on them to disengage the latch.
Any ideas? I appreciate all the responses, and feel free to keep asking me questions if you need clarification or anything because this is a huge pain in the butt!!!!
**95greenlude - So how did you get to the rod though? Use a wedge and fish for it? Or did you somehow get that panel off? Also, I was doing some more research on here and it sounds like there's two rods that connect to the latch, one for the inside and one for the outside handle. Thus, it seems both of these had to of broke at the same time or else the problem has something to do with the latch itself.
**kellyk75 - I'm not sure what you mean with the open/close/open/close. Are you saying to try to unlock/lock manually with the key from the outside and then pull on the handle? I've tried that to no avail unfortunately
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