[Parrothead]

I have a 2001 Blazer with 40K miles. The rear door would not unlatch, when I did a little reserch I found how to open the window with a bent fondu fork. I went on to remove the plastic cover of of the tailgate and found the problem was a broken piece on the end of the solenoid. Does anyone know how to get just this $1.00 part? GM wants to sell me the intire solenoid for $55.00
ACDELCO part # 15994853

 

[Ming]

I've seen a similar problem on a friend's Blazer. It used to "pop open" on its own, now you have to manually open it after releasing it. I think this is one of those perennially bad engineering problems with the Blazer GM doesn't seem to want to fix.