Door Problems of Chrysler Pt Cruiser

I decided to drive to a city about an hour and a half way. Not knowing on the way back I was going to have to tie the back door shut. Me, my boyfriend, and my 4 year old daughter were with me. We had went into a mall. When coming back out I had opened the back driver's side door open to let my daughter in. After I had her buckled in I tried to shut the door and it wouldn't shut. After several attempts we used shoe strings and belts to hold the door shut and my boyfriend road home in the back to also help hold the door. For I didn't want my 4 year old to fall out the door on the way home. So for the next two weeks I had a rope tied from one door to the other door and my kids had to ride in the front seat to the babysitters a few blocks away which is completely illegal because of being 4 and 5. But what was I to do I'm a single mom. The dealer wanted to charge me 80 dollars just to tell me what was wrong and then another 80 to fix it plus the part. Now I'm having other issues with my 2002 Pt Cruiser and no money to fix it.

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Automatic door locks are a design defect because the device does not do what it was intended to do under all conditions. This feature is surpose to lock the doors above a speed of 15 mph. But if the vehicle doors were unlocked when the car is in park and the engine running, then the vehicle is then put in drive and moves above 15mph the automatic door locks does not function leaving the doors unlock which is not what the device was design intent was, but the dealer claims is by design. I also own a 1996 Dodge caravan and the automatic door locks function under all conditions to lock the doors when the vehicle 15mph which is a very reassuring feature to have in the car. I feel the automatic door locks in the ptcruiser design is faulty if it does not lock the doors at all times when the vehicle reachs speeds above 15mph and provides the passangers with a false condition of security that the automatic door locks will lock the doors whenever the vehicle has begin to move at street legal speeds.

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The design of the "top part" of the passenger door frame was very high and curved which caused the frame to hit and damage the consumers eye when closing the door.