2003-09 Toyota 4Runner Rear Driver Side Interior Door Handle TRQ DHA49593

Hey friends, it's Len here from 1A Auto. Today we're gonna be working on our 2006 Toyota 4Runner and I want to show you how to remove and install an inside door handle. If you need this or any other part, check us out 1aauto.com, thanks.

Okay friends, so here we go. We're in here. You're gonna notice that you have this little thing right here. Pop this, comes right off. Awesome. I'm gonna grab my screwdriver. You've got a little clip here. You'll notice in the center it has like a little bullseye ring there. What you do is you just take your small screwdriver or whatever you've got, you press it in the center a teeny bit and then it unlocks. So essentially, right now, what I would do is I would push it like this and that's in the unlocked position as well. Once it's in the door, I would press it so it's flat and that pushes it out these clips. Set that aside.

Look behind here, there's a little panel. I'm gonna carefully come in with my pocket screwdriver, pop that out. Here it is. You're gonna be able to see there's a Phillips head screw back there, okay? Right under here, working just like this. You got another Phillips head screw. This one's a little bit thicker and bigger than the other one. I'll try to remember that for when it comes time to install.

Okay, so we have the mounting screws out at this point. So now what we're gonna do is we're going to try to grab the door panel and pull it away from the actual door itself. Some things that you're gonna want to pay attention to is the fact that there is going to be some electrical wiring because we have a light ray here. We also have switches and, of course, the latch up here for the handle. So you're gonna want to pay attention to all that stuff. Once we start pulling it off, we want to start disconnecting things. Just gonna grab my plastic trim tools here. Try to come right underneath.

Look at that, money, more money. This is awesome. I know. All right. This should come right up. All right, so now we can see what's going on behind here. Like I said, you get a couple of cables here, got some wiring, some wiring down there. So we're gonna want to pay special attention to all that stuff. We don't want to obviously break anything. I'm just gonna take a look at this. Let's see if I can get this to pop out of here.

If you look right down along here, you're gonna be able to see that there's like a little push tab. Let me try to push down on that and pull out the wiring. That's free now. These right here, it's a good idea to pay attention to which way they go. You've got your green one, comes down to the bottom, and then the white ones up on top. So when we go to install, you want to make sure you put them the same way. Just pull it out, lift it straight up.

Same thing up here, up, just like that. This one's gonna go down by the look of it. Awesome. Let's keep moving. We got our little squeeze tab right here. Squeeze it, pull it, check it out. Let's look down on the bottom side here. This one looks like it's gonna be a little bit harder to see. So we're just gonna push on this little tab right here. Looks good. Take our door panel, we'll set it aside. Okay, so right here is where our door handle is. We have one mounting screw, it's a Phillips head. Grab this, pull it right out.

Okay, so we're gonna take our brand new quality 1A Auto handle here. Slide it right into position. Awesome. We have our one mounting screw right here. You might look at it and say, "Hey Len, my handle's going to wobble all around. This is ridiculous." Well, it might seem that way for now, but this hole right here is where that screw comes through from the inside and then it goes into the door.

All right, so that's going to hold all this nice and secure and it's not going to move around at all. This is perfect. Let's get it over to the vehicle and continue. Here we go. Start getting this mounted in. Something to pay quick attention to, and I'd like to mention it real quick, is these little tabs right here. If you happen to notice that any of them are missing and you just see this, you're gonna want to take a peek at your door and figure out where it is, right? Once you find it, just pop it out of there. You can use something as simple as a little forky tool and it'll pop out. Okay?

Once you do that, just take it, put it back in your door panel. With that said, let's start connecting some of this stuff. This harness right here or pigtail is gonna be the hardest pigtail for you to get connected in. It has like this little slidey lock thing. So when you squeeze this together like this, it pushes that little hook inside there, kind of in the locked position. To unlock it, you need to push this like that and bring it up as far as it can go. So it has a hook in there. When it's locked, it goes like this. When it's unlocked, it goes like this and then it's gonna go right around this.

So just take it, push it in, and then push it in the outer end of it. There it is, okay? Turn your door panel so it's in the direction that you need it to be. You're going to take this, give it a little tug. You got this one right here. Just when you can see right through the door panel, come just like that, give it a little tug. Awesome.

All right, so now it's time for these cables. I'm just gonna turn my hat around real quick. We're gonna start with the top one, which is the white one. Put it right in just like that. Bring it around. That should slide right in just like that. Do the same for this one. Just like that. Slide that, click it right in. Perfect. Just give them a little tug, see if they do anything. Awesome.

Okay. At this point, I'm just gonna bring this up over here. Set it right up and along. All right. Make sure it's all the way down and then just start bonking it in. Cool. All right, got our little clippy doo make sure that this little pit on is sticking out. If it's flashed like that, you're not gonna be able to get it in because it's in the locked position. Just give it a little tap, pops out.

All right, so we're gonna press along the outside of this clippy doo, and then press in the center. It's nice and locked. We're gonna grab our Phillips head screws. Remember there was two different types. The big one, the small one. Small one was up here, the larger one goes down here. It's more of an anchor point. So when you open and shut your door, it's holding in there nice and tight. Start with whichever you'd like.

This one, awesome. Got this right here. Perfect. You got a little clippy do here, one right there. A hole and a hole. Line it up. Bonk, bonk. That's my thing. It's good. And our little triangle. That's a little pushpin there, you go right here. So that's right in, awesome. We're gonna make sure we clean up the window because why not? And down the road, we go.

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