How to Replace Interior Door Handle 2015-19 Ford F-150
Created on: 2017-05-18
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a broken or snapped off interior door handle on 16 Ford F150
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Pry off the sail panel
- Pry off the door pull trim
- Pry off the trim underneath the door pull
- Remove the 7mm screw from the top right
- Remove the two 7mm screws on the bottom of the panel
- Remove the four 7mm screws in the center of the panel
- Pry out the door panel with a door panel clip tool or putty knife
- Lift the door panel up and off
- Disconnect the wiring harnesses
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step 2 :Removing the Door Handle
- Remove the four Phillips screws from the door handle
- Pry the handle out of the door
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step 3 :Installing the Door Handle
- Insert the new door handle into place
- Tighten the four Phillips screws to the handle
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step 4 :Installing the Door Panel
- Connect the wiring harnesses to the door panel
- Lift the door panel into place
- Push in the door panel clips
- Tighten the four 7mm screws to the center of the panel
- Tighten the two 7mm screws to the bottom of the panel
- Tighten the 7mm screw to the top right
- Press on the trim underneath the door pull
- Press on the door pull trim
- Press on the sail panel
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
7mm Socket
Ratchet
Trim Tool Set
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In this video we're going to show you how to replace the interior door handle on this 2016 Ford F150. We show you on the passenger side front. Driver's side front is pretty much the same procedure.
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Before we start, always a good idea just to put the window down just in case you hit the lock switch by accident. You don't want to lock yourself out of your truck.
Start up here, and sometimes you can do this by hand. The right tool is a plastic trim tool, go in behind, pop the clips free and you always want to pull straight out on it. Remove it. Now we're going to pull off this trim panel, and there is a little indent right here where you can fit a screwdriver through, and I force it right up and in. And then this is probably the most unnerving part. It takes a lot of force to pull this off, and I'm going to put my thumb here.
Most of the time, the thing's just going to go flying. Then we want to remove this panel in here. You've got to get into this line here. It can be difficult sometimes. You use plastic tools available at 1AAuto to make this easy, and you don't mar up your interior. Pull out on the side a little bit, get this hook in the top. You can see your two clips are there and there, and it comes up and out. Now you have a series of seven 7-millimeter screws. One up here, two here with the large washers, two here, and then there's two down below. One here and one back here. And we're using 7-millimeter socket, ratchet and extension to remove these seven bolts.
Now there's a series of pins that hold the panel in, so you need to pull the panel straight out. I start up at the top corner here because you can grab onto it easy, and again just apply even pressure out and work your fingers down. And the panel kind of comes up and off.
Your door handle, very easy. Little tab, pull it down, pull the handle off and then your power lock, just a tab here. Push it in and down and then your window switch. Little tab here. Push on it down and your panel's off. Remove your handle.
A lot of time what happens is they break here. Sometimes also the springs let go. There's four Phillips screws to remove. Get the screws out. Flat blade screwdriver and just pry out and it comes right out. Then just pull it out from the front side.
Install the new door handle. Put it up into place and snap it into place and reinstall your four Phillips screws. When you tighten them, tighten them nice and firm but don't over-tighten them. Something to keep in mind, there's a large alignment pin here that goes into this hole in the front here.
Reconnect your door lock as well as your window switch. Make sure your tabs are in the correct place. Then your door handle cable, this goes in underneath and snaps into place. Make sure that you push your lock button through and push the top towards the outside of the vehicle and slip it down on while you're holding the bottom out and then that front pin should go right in. Make sure all your other pins go in so you should have about quarter inch of clearance all the way around and set all the pins. Just going to reinstall my seven, 7 mm screws. Two with the smaller washers go in the lower holes and the two with the larger washers go up around the door pull. These ones in the door pull, you want to get nice and tight. The smaller black ones just tighten them up firmly. Make sure your two plastic clips are in place. Two metal clips: clip it on, just look in behind, make sure the clips line up. Tab goes into the back. Push it back a little bit just to make sure everything lines up. It goes back on much easier that it came off. Then this one, two tabs at the bottom, make sure they go in all at once.
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