Disco 2 Door lock problem.

I’ve recently replaced the rear near side door lock assembly on my 2004 “facelift” Disco 2 and since then I’m having great difficulty in opening the door from the outside. From everything I could see, it was a direct replacement; old one out, new one in.
I’ve checked all of my work doing the replacement, to the point of removing it and starting again. The internal release handle works properly, as do the sill lock button and the central locking. Close inspection shows that the lock releases correctly from the “first lock” position but not from the full lock position without a fairly severe tug on the outside handle. The external release mechanism is operating correctly and to its full extent, so in my estimation it would appear that the problem is actually in the lock/latch mechanism.
That being the case, I have two questions:

1. Is there any adjustment that I’m missing?
   
2. Is it just one of those things which will “wear-in”?

On my pre-facelift D2 the link between the handle and the latch assembly is adjustable. Probably the same on post-facelft as well.

The link rod is gripped in a white nylon block and is a friction fit, mine slipped one winter and I bought a new lock before realising that the length was adjustable.

It's a fiddle, basically you have to clamp the rod in the block to make the rod assembly as short as possible.

Peter

Thanks Peter, that's how it is on the front with those little white plastic clamps. On the back doors it's a solid link; just a bit of bent metal about 3/16 diameter in fact.
As I said, the outside handle is operating what I can see to its full extent.
Thanks, but no help really.

Striker plate need re-aligning?

Feathers McGraw said:

Striker plate need re-aligning?

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Just been out to check. Very little, if any adjustment on the striker plate, even wiv an 'ammer.
I've just ordered a used one from an Ebay supplier, and if the motors fail, then I still have replacements.
Thanks anyway.

Could be worse,

when I changed my rear door actuator, I managed to lose that little piece of steel rod between the actuator and the door handle. I searched Hi and Lo. never did find it.

I ended up having to buy it second hand one from a local Landy breaker. I must say the door does not actuate as well as it did before. Must be one of those things.

Cheers

Update 1.

Received another "used" unit and fitted it. The door now locks and opens in the prescribed normal manner, so it does look like a "faulty from new" device. As I said, it's now not worth sending this unit back, I'd have to go through all the trouble of packing it up and posting it, and anyway, I now have a set of working motors should any fail.
@neilly I do wish you hadn't said that, I dropped that little metal link too. Fortunately I was able to find it stuck in one of the "grooves" on the inside of ne of the seams.
I'm now going to open up the faulty lock to find out what's gone wrong.

Well, glad your luck was better than mine, I even had the little camera on a wand connected to the phone to look for it. LOL.