How to Replace Door Panel Nissan Murano 2003-07
Created on: 2011-10-24
Learn where the bolts and fasteners are on the door panel with this how-to video. Follow the steps and remove it yourself
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Pry off the trim piece inside the door handle with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pry off the trim piece inside the door pull with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove the 10mm bolt inside the door pull
- Pry up the window switch panel by hand
- Disconnect the window switch wiring harnesses
- Pry off the door handle bezel with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove the four 10mm bolts from the door panel
- Pry out the door panel by hand
- Lift the door panel up and off
- Disconnect the latch cables from the door handle
- Disconnect the courtesy light wiring harness
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step 2 :Reinstalling the Door Panel
- If any clips remained in the door, pull them out with pliers
- Push the clips into the door panel
- Connect the courtesy light wiring harness
- Connect the latch cables from the door handle
- Lift the door panel into place
- Push in the door panel clips
- Insert the four 10mm bolts into the door panel
- Connect the window switch wiring harnesses
- Push in the window switch panel
- Insert the 10mm bolt into the door pull
- Insert the 10mm bolt into the door handle
- Push on the trim piece inside the door handle
- Push in the door pull trim piece
- Push on the door handle bezel
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
10mm Socket
Ratchet
Needle nose pliers
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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and reinstall the door panel on this 2006 Nissan Murano, same as any 2003 to 2007. Tools you'll need are a small flat blade screwdriver, a 10mm socket with a ratchet and extension, or a large Phillips screwdriver, and you might need a pair of pliers as well.
I'm going to start out. There's a little trap door thing here. Just pry that out. There's a 10mm screw right behind there and another one right down here, and the same thing, a 10mm bolt or a Phillips screw there. First I'm going to remove this 10mm bolt here. Now we're going to pull up on our switch and retrieve that bolt out of there. From up here, we're going to pull up on that whole panel. Right in behind, there are two tabs you press with your thumb. I'm sorry, there's a tab on each connector. Press that with your thumb, pull the connector out and there's your switch panel off.
Now up here, I'm going to use our screwdriver and lightly pry out on the corner and pry right around here. Now kind of push down. You can almost see in here. It doesn't want to come out here. It comes out. There's 10mm bolt or Phillips screw right back in there, one down in there, one down there, in addition to the one in the door handle. I'm going to fast forward here as I remove those four screws. I'm using a socket with a ratchet and extension, as well as a Phillips screwdriver would work.
Now, you want to start over in the front corner and try to work your fingers underneath. You'll notice there's a spot right in there that doesn't really move. Pull on that, and you'll pull the clip free. It feels like my door panel has been off, because it's coming off a little easy. You've just got to work your way around and pull the door panel off, free, and then it comes up and off.
Now, behind, you get these two cables. You pull the cables out away from your door handle first and then they spin and you can pull the connectors out, and then way down at the bottom another connector for your courtesy light, press a tab and disconnect it.
A couple of these may have stayed behind. We'll put these back on the bottom of our door panel. Now hold the door close. The one with the L is the lock. That goes up higher. Bend it and put it in there and lock it. Do the same thing here. Put the door panel up, and push it against the window and down.
You can look right back in here, and pretty much see that that clip is lined right up with the hole. Now the door panel is in place. We'll speed it up here. I'm just putting the bolts back in, the one at the top of the door pull, then the ones down and inside. Then I put my switch plate in and bolt that down and when you're tightening these bolts, you want to get them firm but don't over-tighten them.
Finish up here as we put the bolt into the door handle. Then, we put the little covers on each of the screws down in the cup and the door handle itself, and then put that bezel back on.
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