How To Remove Front Door Panel 2000-05 Ford Focus
Created on: 2012-10-24
Learn how to remove the door panel if it or other components like the window regulator, exterior door handle, or door lock actuator need to be replaced
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Pry off the triangle panel in the corner by hand
- Disconnect the mirror wiring harness
- Pry off the trim piece inside the door handle with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove the T20 Torx screw inside the door handle
- Remove the T20 Torx screws from the side and bottom of the panel
- Pry off the trim piece on the door pull with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove the 7mm bolts from the door pull
- Pry off the trim switch panel around the door handle
- Disconnect the wiring harness from the window switch
- Pry out the door panel with a door panel clip tool or putty knife
- Lift the door panel up and off
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step 2 :Reinstalling the Door Panel
- Lift the door panel into place
- Push in the door panel clips
- Connect the mirror wiring harness
- Push in the triangle panel in the corner
- Connect the switch wiring harnesses
- Push in the trim piece around the door handle
- Insert and tighten the 7mm bolts from the door pull
- Push in the trim piece on the door pull
- Insert and tighten the T20 Torx screw inside the door handle
- Insert and tighten the T20 Torx screws from the side and bottom of the panel
- Push in the trim piece inside the door handle
Tools needed
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Flat Blade Screwdriver
T20 Driver
Putty Knife
1/4 Inch Socket
7mm Socket
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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and reinstall a front door panel on this 2003 Ford Focus. We're going to show you the driver side, but the passenger side is pretty much the same procedure. Tools you'll need include a small and regular size flat blade screwdriver, T20 Torx driver, and a 7mm socket with a ratchet and extension.
On this door, first at the top corner, you want to pull your trim out. It should pull. This already comes off,. You pull out, and then it pulls back and off. Then you can disconnect this. Use your small screwdriver, and then you actually kind of just pry right in here on this side of the connection and pull it out. I'm just going to speed it up here with those screws, use a T20 Torx bit so use your T20 Torx bit and remove all of them. You'll want to pry this off. It's easiest to get right here in the back, pry that out, and it comes right off. Go ahead with a 7mm socket with an extension and ratchet (a ¼ mm socket actually works as well) and remove these two bolts. If you notice, I said a 1/4mm, and that's actually a quarter inch socket works just as well as the 7mm socket.
Now, this panel, actually, reach right in here and pull firmly, and here the same thing. Pull firmly and pull this panel out. Then this disconnects. There's a little tab that's back behind the wires. Push that tab down and pull that out. The tab is actually right here on the back. Push this down. Do the same thing over here. It's a couple of harnesses. They just have tabs you press with your thumb and pull out. Okay, disconnected. Now you can just take your panel, pull it out, go up, and it comes off.
To reinstall the door panel, just make sure this harness is through and this harness is up. You're going to have to have the door panel up. Get it onto the window ledge and bring it down. Reconnect our speaker. Pull this up and out, and it goes through, reconnects there. Make sure that this stays in behind. Put it on the edge first, press it forward and into place. This panel should be three connectors. Reach down the door, and bring them up through. Reconnect these two outer ones first.
Next is this lead. Make sure it's nice and free. Connect it and clip it in on the backside. Bring this back over the door handle and that goes in. I'm going to fast-forward as I take those two 7mm bolts, reinsert them into that door pull, and tighten them up. Then put the trim panel and snap it back into place.
You want to put the top in first and then snap the bottom into place. Continue that speed as I just take the seven. There's seven T20 screws: one goes in the door handle, the rest go around the perimeter of the door panel, so put those in and tighten them up. Last, but not least, put the little trim panel over the screw in the door handle.
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