How To Remove Rear Door Panel 2000-05 Buick LeSabre

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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and reinstall the rear door panel. There are two designs for these LeSabres. This is a 2000. What you want to do is take off the bezel around the inside door handle and check for a little black screw. If there's a little black screw in behind there, then your door panel will pull off easier. If there's no little black screw behind the bezel around the door handle then it's going to be like this vehicle. Tools you'll need are a flat blade screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, and a door panel clip tool. That tool is available on our website 1AAuto.com.

Start with a flat blade screwdriver. Carefully go right in behind here and pull out on this bezel, it kind of moves forward and off. Next, you're going to want to take your screwdriver end and then pry out on this courtesy light. It just kind of comes straight out. You can pull the bulb out like that. Phillips screwdriver, look right in here. You'll see a black Phillips screw. Remove that.

Now there's a series of clips around the door panel. You want a door panel clip tool. What you're going to do is pull out on the panel, slide it in, and then usually down until you come to a clip and pull it out. Put it right around the clip and then pull on the door panel and the tool at the same time. Then just keep doing that all the way around the whole panel. I'll speed it up here as I just work my way around the panel with the tool and pull to release the clips. Once you release the clips, you'll want to just try and pull the handle out, or pull the panel out, and pull it up and off of the bracket. Pull all the back clips out, pull the door panel up, and then come up to the front here and pull all these clips out.

Then when you're clear, pull the door panel up and out. Then there's a little electrical connection here. Just press on the tab, disconnect that. The door panel comes off. You can see right here, this is the clip in the middle. It slides down on these clips here. What you want to do is once you have panel off, take your screwdriver and push up. There's basically two little teeth that hold it on. Push up and pull the clip off. Then push down and that comes off.

You can slide it right back into there. Fast-forward here as we remove the other clip, and then put it back into the panel. Then the panel is ready to install when you have your project done. Before you put your door panel back on, you've got to make sure this bracket is in place.

Reconnect your harness. Two of your lower pins are longer, so you can actually put those in place. I'm looking down seeing those go in place. Those should pretty much line up. Then you can just rotate the panel onto the door. Watch everything go in. Peek back here, make sure that these pins are lined up. Put the ash tray in. Stick the back in a little bit, and then put that in. Make sure that we take our Phillips screw and carefully put it in. Connect our courtesy light.

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