How to Remove Master Power Window Switch 1997-2005 Lexus GS300
Created on: 2019-04-17
How to remove, repair, fix, change, replace or install a damaged, worn out, faulty or shorted power master window switch in a 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, Lexus GS300
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step 1 :Removing the Master Power Window Switch
- 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 three Phillips screws holding the master switch in place, located behind the insulating foam surrounding the master switch
- Remove the master switch
- Remove the foam insulation
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step 2 :Reinstalling the Master Power Window Switch
- Glue the foam insulation to new master switch
- Reinstall the master switch
- Reinstall the three Phillips screws
- Connect the three door panel 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
Small Hook
Pick
Hey, how's it going? I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I'm going to show you how to remove and install the power window master power window switch. This is a 2001 Lexus GS300. Pretty much the same for the GS series from 98 to 2005.
First you'll need a hook 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. And for a bunch of these, you could use an eight millimeter socket and ratchet.
Alright, now there's a few clips in the front and the back, so just put your ... you can usually just use your fingers. You might want to use a flat blade screwdriver. 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, 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 and disconnect.
Three screws hold the window switch in place. The hardest one to get to is going to be down here. It's even difficult to see. What you'll need is a little articulating screwdriver and get right in there. If you don't have one of these, you can remove all these screws and the door handle. You'll have to remove the two screws for the door handle, pull it all apart, and you can take the whole panel off. But if you have one of these articulating screwdrivers from 1A Auto, you can just go and get it this way.
Alright, and then the sides that glue holding it on, the switch comes off. And you'll want to remove this insulation from your switch and glue it onto your new one.
And when you're ready to reinstall, put it back into place and start the three screws, and then tighten them up. And it's okay to start this hard to get one with a screwdriver, just get it into place first. Start at a couple of screws, start at a few turns, and then get the other ones going. And tighten up this last one, again, with the articulating little screwdriver from 1A Auto.
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 eight millimeter bolts.
I always like to start them all first before I tighten them up, that just makes 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.
And then the plastic cover. Put it in place, kind of push the front in first and snap it in.
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