How to Replace Rear Door Speaker 1998-2012 Ford Ranger Extended Cab

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In this video, we're going to be working with our 2001 Ford Ranger Extended Cab. We're going to show you how to remove and replace your rear speaker. We are doing this on the passenger side, but this process is going to be exactly the same on the driver's side.

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Here are the items you'll need for this repair: 15mm socket, ratchet, socket extension, trim tools, flat blade screwdriver, T50 socket, torque wrench

To make it easiest to film this rear door panel, and to make it easier for you to work on, we'll open our front door and the rear door that we'll be working with. The front door latches to the rear door and also uses it as a stop, so you can carefully rest that door closed. Make it nice it easy to get at this panel.

Remove the cover to the upper portion of your seat belt here. Using a 15 millimeter socket and ratchet, remove the nut. Keep a hand on this, because there is a little bit of tension there, not a lot. You just don't want it to snap down and potentially crack the interior panel. Once that nut's off, you can go ahead and slide this upper portion off and allow it to hang down and out of your way.

In order to remove our interior door panel, we're going to be using one of our non-marring pry tools or interior trim removal tools available from 1AAuto.com. If you don't have a set of these, they're a great addition to any do-it-yourselfers toolbox, as they keep these panels in good condition when you're working on them. But if you don't have a set, you can always use a small flat-blade screwdriver as long as you're careful not to damage the plastic.

Around the edges of the door panel is a series of plastic clips, so feel around back there, and when you find one, put the pry tool over it, pop it out. Once all your clips are out, you can lift your door panel off and lay it down. Now, hanging it like this will give us the access to our door handles, cables, various latches, and our speaker.

If you need to remove the panel fully, because you're replacing it, we'll lift this cover here and remove the bottom of the seat belt.

Using the T50 Torx socket and a ratchet, we'll remove this bolt at the bottom. Pop out this trim here around the seat belt. It's notched, so you can take it off completely and then feed the seat belt components through the opening. Now we can take our panel completely off and out of the way.

Using the 6 millimeter socket and ratchet, we'll remove the four screws securing our speaker to the door. Remove the speaker from the door and disconnect the electrical connector on the back.

Reconnect the electrical connector. Lay the speaker back onto the door, and reinstall your 6 millimeter screws. Don't tighten any of them down until all four are in to make sure that all the holes line up smoothly.

Remove any clips that stayed into the door and fell out of the panel. These can be reinstalled into the door panel if they're in good condition, but we'll have to get them all out of the steel first.

Remove any clips that stayed into the door and fell out of the panel. These can be reinstalled into the door panel if they're in good condition, but we'll have to get them all out of the steel first.

To reinstall the tab, you'll have to line up the notch in the door panel with the space between the two flat portions of the clip here. Do this throughout the rest of the door panel. Pass the seat belt back through the opening in the door panel. Make sure the buckle goes through its slot, then push all the retaining tabs back into place. Working on the outside edge, where the seal is, you'll want to make sure that you pull that out and lay it back over the plastic before snapping these pushpins in.

Reinstall the bolt at the bottom with your T50 Torx socket. Torque this bolt to 30 foot-pounds. Reinstall the upper portion of the seat belt, and reinstall the 15 millimeter nut with a socket and ratchet. Torque this nut to 30 foot-pounds. Then reinstall the cover. If you remove the seat belt and this piece of trim, slide it back over the rear portion of the seat belt with the slot facing to the panel, and snap it back into place.

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