How to Replace Interior Door Handle 1995-99 Toyota Avalon
Created on: 2012-09-06
This video will show how to remove the door panel to access and replace the interior door handle on the 95-99 Toyota Avalon
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Pry off the mirror base trim piece with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pry off the inner door handle bezel with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pry up the switch panel with a flat blade screwdriver
- Disconnect the switch panel wiring harnesses
- Pry off the two side trim pieces with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pry off the small trim piece on the door pull with a flat blade screwdriver
- Push in the clip on the end of the door panel and remove it
- Remove the two Phillips head screw on the side of the door
- Remove the four Phillips screws on the bottom
- Remove the Phillips screw on the door pull
- Remove the Phillips screw in the door pull
- Lift the door panel up and off
- Disconnect the courtesy light wiring harness
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step 2 :Removing the Inside Door Handle
- Remove the two 10mm bolts from the door handle
- Disconnect the latch cables from the door handle
- Remove the door handle
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step 3 :Installing the New Inside Door Handle
- Connect the latch cables to the door handle
- Insert the 10mm bolts to the door handle
- Test the handle and locks
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step 4 :Reinstalling the Door Panel
- Connect the courtesy light wiring harness
- Lift the door panel up onto the windowsill
- Push in the door panel clips
- Insert the Phillips head screw into the door pull
- Insert the Phillips head screw on the door pull
- Insert the two screws on the side of the panel
- Insert the four screws on the bottom of the panel
- Connect the switch panel wiring harnesses
- Press the switch panel into place
- Push on the door handle bezel
- Push on the two trim buttons on the side of the panel
- Push on the trim button on the door pull
- Press in the clip on the end of the door panel
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
10mm Socket
Ratchet
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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace an inside door handle on this 1998 Toyota Avalon. We show the passenger's side front. The other three doors are pretty much the same procedure. Tools you'll need are a flat blade screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, and a 10mm socket with a ratchet extension.
Start with a flat blade screwdriver, and up here, in this corner piece, pry out lightly and then pull firmly. That comes up and off. Your inner door handle bezel, kind of pry down here. Pry out like that. Up at the top, pry out like that until that comes off. This bezel that holds your switches, go right from kind of the center, slowly work on there. You can kind of see a clip. Push on that clip, and pull that up and out. There are two connectors. They both have just little buttons. Press the button and pull the connector out. Then there are two little trim tabs here. Just pry them off or get them with your screwdriver. Pull off with your fingers. Whoops, I just dropped one of those. Another one here, pull this right out. Then on the end of your door, there's a little clip here. You push the center in and then that pulls out.
Now there are a number of Phillips screws to remove. There's two right there, one in behind where your switches were, one in that hole there, then there's a few right underneath the perimeter of your door. Speed up here as I use a Phillips screwdriver to remove those screws. On this vehicle there were eight in all: four along the bottom, two in the front, and one in behind where the switches were and then the one at the door of the armrest base. Now you can just lift the door panel up and off. Then you can reach in behind and disconnect the courtesy light. This just has a little tab on it that you press down and pull out.
To remove your inside door handle, there are two 10mm bolts on the front and one on the rear. Once you take those off there is a clip right here. Actually it's broken. You would push this clip off. It might have actually been broken already. Push that clip off, and then this comes up and out. Then there's another clip right here, same thing. Take that clip and pull it off. Pull this up and out. There's your handle out.
Reinstallation of the handle is just a reverse of that procedure. What you want to do is take this one, put it right in, and you kind of have to pull this clip over and lock it on. This one goes in. Then you have to grab the clip and pull it over. That clip's broken, so I'm just going to put it like that. Hold the handle in place and start the bolts.
Next, reinstall the door panel. First we'll reconnect our courtesy light. Now hang the door panel up on the windowsill. Make sure your harnesses come through here. I'm going to fast-forward here as I put the screws back in. The two largest screws go in behind the switch plate and under the armrest base, and then you have the two button style screws that go in the front, and then the other four screws that go along the bottom. Put this little button back in. Plug our switches back in. Put the back down in first, then press that down in and the trim bezel here. Put that on. Then these two trim buttons here, put those on. Last, but not least, the last part take this and reset it by pushing it back up through like that. Put it in place and push lock.
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