How to Replace Door Lock Cylinder 2005-10 Chrysler 300
Created on: 2017-02-10
How to replace a door lock cylinder on 06 Chrysler 300.
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Pry out the trim piece inside the door handle
- Remove the Phillips screw behind the handle
- Remove the tan circle clips by pressing in the center and prying out the clip
- Remove the four Phillips head screws on the bottom of the panel
- Pry out the panel below the door pull
- Pry out the door panel with a door panel clip tool or putty knife
- Release the door handle cable by popping the clip, rotating the handle, and popping the hook out
- Disconnect the window switch wiring harnesses
- Pop out the wire harness retainers
- Unplug the courtesy light and its wire retainers
- Lift the door panel up and off
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step 2 :Removing the Door Module
- Disconnect the electrical connectors
- Pop out the plastic clips from the door module
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step 3 :Removing the Door Lock Cylinder
- Pop the wiring harness retainers off the door with trim tools
- Separate the weather shield adhesive with a utility knife
- Carefully peel off the weather shielding
- Unclip the lock rod clip
- Remove the two 8mm bolts from the back of the door handle
- Pull the door lock cylinder out through the inside of the door
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step 4 :Installing the Door Lock Cylinder
- Put the door lock cylinder into place
- Insert the two 8mm bolts for the door lock cylinder
- Put the lock rod into place
- Clip on the lock rod clip
- Line up the weather shielding
- Push on the weather shielding
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step 5 :Installing the Door Module
- Connect the electrical connectors
- Press the door module into place
- Clip the wiring harnesses to the door
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step 6 :Installing the Door Panel
- Connect the courtesy light
- Clip in the wire harness retainers
- Connect the window switch wiring harnesses
- Insert the latch rod into the door handle
- Slide the clip over the latch rod
- Lift the panel up over the door lock
- Press the panel into place
- Press the clips into the door panel
- Tighten the four Phillips screws to the bottom of the panel
- Tighten the Phillips screws beneath the door pull
- Tighten the Phillips screw into the door handle
- Press on the trim buttons
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Phillips Head Screwdriver
8mm Socket
Ratchet
Trim Tool Set
Utility Knife
Pick
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In this video, we're going to be working with our 2006 Chrysler 300. We're going to show you how to remove and replace your vehicle's door lock cylinder which is only on the driver's side of this vehicle. If you like this video, please click subscribe. We have a ton more information on this and many other vehicles. If you ever need parts for your car, you can follow the link down in the description over to 1AAuto.com. Here are the items you'll need for this repair.
Normally, there would be a little panel here that's broken off and missing from our vehicle. You would want to take a hook pick, put it in there, and just pop it down. Once that's out of the way, you can use a Phillips head screwdriver to remove the screw and the handle. Now, unless you're replacing the mirror, you'll only have to remove the three color matched clips: one here and two at the back of the panel. The black clips can stay in place since this piece of trim is all on its own.
To remove these clips, push the center in one click, and you can see there's a small hole in there. I find the easiest way to remove these is get a hooked pick, grab that, and pull it out. Repeat this process for the other two clips. And then three Phillips head screws along the bottom, as well as one above the side here in the front. We'll remove all of those with our Phillips head screwdriver. Below the door pull is another panel we'll have to pop down.
Behind that panel is another Phillips head screw that we'll have to remove with our screwdriver. Grab the bottom of the panel, pop it out, release the door handle cable here by popping this clip off to the side rotating it and lifting the hook out. You should be able to lay it back enough to remove the connectors on the master window switch. And we'll want to pop out all the retainers, the wire harness down here. Unplug the courtesy light at the bottom of the panel as well. Again, this is another great place that our trim tools come in handy. Just reach it under there and pop them out and set your panel off to the side.
Disconnect the electrical connectors on the door control module. Then we'll need to use our trim tool to pop out the plastic clips for it.
Use your trim tool to pop off the wire harness retainers. We have one there and one down here. Now the adhesive on this weatherstrip is pretty tough, so you might want a razor blade to help score and separate it so you don't tear the weather shielding itself. Once you've removed all of your adhesive, you can peel off your interior door shielding. Go ahead and carefully pull that out of the way being sure to move it over the lock rods, door handle, and all of the wiring harness.
To remove your door lock cylinder, there's a little latch here with a purple tab you'll have to snap back. Now, all I'm going to do is snap it back. You see there. Flip it up out of the way, and pull the rod back. We'll now remove these two 8 mm bolts at the back of the handle. We're doing this with an 8 mm socket, ratchet, and a long extension. Now, when the last bolt comes out, the lock mechanism is going to come with it, so make sure you keep those together, and remove them from the vehicle.
Reinstall the door lock cylinder. Start your 8 mm screw. Once you've started the screws, go ahead and tighten them down with our 8 mm socket, ratchet, and extension. Reinstall the lock rod, and snap the latch into place. Reinstall the interior door weather shielding, here, over the latch rod and the door lock. We'll stick this corner in just to keep everything in place for now. Make sure the harness stays on the outside of it over here, as well as the harness for the door module.
Install the driver's door module by reconnecting the connectors and pushing the plastic clips back into place. Reinstall the harness.
Reconnect the courtesy light. Pop those two harness connection back into their proper locations. Reconnect the power mirror switch.
I know there are two gray connectors with a lot of similar colored wires going to them, but the one for the mirror switch is slight smaller and has a lot more connections on it, so we'll plug that in all the way at the front of the panel closest to me. The little black connector goes in the top of the power window switch and the large gray connector goes at the far end of the power window switch. Reinstall the lock rod. Slide that clip back over. Lift up and slide over the door lock, line up your panel and snap all the clips back into place.
To reinstall these clips you'll have to push the tab back out and through. Place it back into its opening in the door panel. Pop the tab back in in the center. Repeat that process with the other two clips at the back of the door. Reinstall the three screw along the bottom. The one up here at the front of the door, one under this panel, and one behind the door handle with our Phillips head screwdriver. Remember to close those cover panels on the door if your vehicle still has them.
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