How To Remove Front Door Panel 1993-97 Dodge Intrepid
Created on: 2011-08-12
How to remove or replace the interior door panel trim on your vehicle. You need to remove the door panel for a number of different repairs, for example door handles, window regulators, power window motors, door locks and more on Dodge Intrepid, years 93, 94, 95, 96, and 97.
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Disconnect the negative battery cable with a 10mm wrench
- Pry off the speaker cover with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove two 10mm screws from the speaker
- Remove the Phillips screw at the bottom of the door panel
- Remove the two Phillips screws on the sides of the door panel
- Remove the Phillips screw inside the door pull
- Remove the Phillips screw inside the door handle
- Pry out the door panel
- Disconnect the lock rods from the door handle
- Lift the door panel up and off
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step 2 :Reinstalling the Door Panel
- Lift the door panel into place
- Connect the lock rod to the door handle
- Push in the door panel clips
- Insert the Phillips head screw inside the door pull
- Insert the Phillips head screw inside the door handle
- Insert the Phillips screw at the bottom of the door panel
- Insert the two Phillips screws on the sides of the door panel
- Put the speaker into place
- Insert two 10mm screws from the speaker
- Reconnect the negative battery cable with a 10mm wrench
Tools needed
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Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
10mm Wrench
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In this video, we show you how to remove and put back on the front door panel on this '97 Dodge Intrepid, same as any '93 to '97. The only tools you'll need are a flat blade screwdriver and a Phillips head screwdriver.
Start by disconnecting your negative battery cable using a 10mm wrench. This is really just to prevent your battery from running down while you have the door open. Remember to reconnect it at the end.
Use a flat blade screwdriver, pry the front of your speaker grille out, and then pull the grille off. Now, there are seven screws: one there, two on either side of your speaker, one down at the bottom of the door, one up in here behind the door handle, one down in here in the pull cup, and then one here on the back edge of the door. I'm just going to fast-forward as I remove those seven Phillips screws. Once the screws are out, remove the handle. Lift up. Behind, there's a clip here. Take it off with your thumb. Pull this rod up and out.
In most of my door panel videos, I show you how to take if all the way off. On this vehicle you can take it all the way off, but it's not really necessary for most of the repairs you have to do. To take it all the way off, you have to unhook all the harnesses, and the harnesses are also clipped to the door panel, so it's actually kind of a pain to take it all the way off, so you can pull it down like this, and you can accomplish most projects in behind it just with it hanging there like that.
To put the door panel back on you want to lift it up. You can see down there, you want to hook up the tabs into the door at the bottom. Then lift it, close, and reconnect. Lift it up into place, make sure your lock is through, push it against the door, slide it down onto I'm going to really speed it up here as I put those seven screws back in. For this door panel, it's pretty easy to put back on. You just make sure it's in place, make sure all the hooks are in place, and make sure the top is correct. Push it in and down, replace all these screws, and then replace your speaker grille.
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