How to Remove Front Door Speaker 1997-2005 Lexus GS300
Created on: 2019-04-17
How to replace the front door speaker on 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, Lexus GS300
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step 1 :Removing Front Door Speaker
- Remove the handle trim piece with a pick
- Remove the Phillips screw behind the door handle
- Remove the Phillips screw inside the rubber trim piece
- Remove the Phillips screw below the door pull
- Remove the Phillips screw above the door latch
- Remove the four Phillips screws along bottom of the panel
- Pry out the door panel with a flat blade screwdriver
- Lift door panel up
- Disconnect the interior door handle cables
- Disconnect the three electrical connectors
- Remove the four Phillips screws, three visible and then the fourth behind foam gasket
- remove the speaker bracket
- Remove the speaker
- Disconnect the speaker electrical connections
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step 2 :Replacing Front Door Speaker
- Reconnect the electrical connections from top, left to right: black, blue, yellow, red
- Replace the speaker bracket
- Replace four Phillips screws
- Connect the three electrical connectors
- Connect the interior door handle cables
- Lift panel up onto the door, push front end on first
- Press in door panel clips
- Replace the Phillips screw behind the door handle
- Replace the Phillips screw inside the rubber trim piece
- Replace the Phillips screw below the door pull
- Replace the Phillips screw above the door latch
- Replace the four Phillips screws along bottom of the panel
- Replace the handle trim piece
Tools needed
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Phillips Head Screwdriver
Pick
I'm just going to show you how to remove and reinstall a speaker on this 2001 Lexus GS300. It should be about the same on a '98 to 2005 GS300.
First you'll need a hooked pick tool and just go in behind and pull this panel off and now there are eight Phillips screws to remove, one right behind that panel, one inside here. There's one right below your door pull here, one with a bumper on it there and then four right up underneath. Phillips screwdriver to remove those. For a bunch of these you could use an 8 millimeter socket and ratchet. All right, now there's a few clips in the front and the back. You usually just use your fingers. You might want to use a flat blade screwdriver. But just pull firmly and they release. Okay and then once you've released all those and it's kind of loose, you want to almost twist the top so that this will go by here. Pull out. But also pull on this so the top comes up and then rotate it up. Slide it back.
Pull the top out and off and then in behind, there are the two cables for your door handle. Pull them out and then pull that up and out like that. Same thing here. Pull it out and this one goes down and comes out and then two electrical connections. Push on the tab and disconnect and then down here, the tab is right at the bottom. Push on the tab and disconnect. Oh, one more and then way down at the bottom, again, a little tab. Push to disconnect. Door screws hold the speaker in place. Remove the three you can see first and this last one, you have to kind of peel the gasket up a little bit and find the screw. Then pull the plastic out and take the speaker out.
And if you put another speaker in, make sure you put a pad here because it helps to not chafe the wires and it goes black. Blue is a smaller connector, yellow and then red on the end. Okay and then we'll push the speaker back into place. Try and pull the gasket down just to get the screw to go in underneath it. Reinstall the door panel. There's three electrical connectors, the courtesy light way down at the bottom, our master power window switch right in the middle and then our power door lock switch up here at the top and then these go in. This first one goes from the bottom, from the bottom and then up and around. This one goes in from the top and then pushes in and then tilt the back of the panel up. Push the front in first and then as you go forward, bring the panel down and on and lock those clips into place. The larger screw that has no bolt head goes in behind here and then the rest of them are the Phillips screw and 8 millimeter bolts.
I always like to start them off fresh before I tighten them up. I just make sure that they're all lined up and then when you tighten them, you don't have to tighten them tight. Just get them snug so you know they're holding. You don't want to strip the plastic clips they go into. This plastic cover, put it in place. Kind of push the front in first. Then snap it in.
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