How to Replace Door Panel 2001-05 Honda Civic 2 door
Created on: 2016-03-24
Watch this video to learn how to remove and replace the interior door panels on your Honda Civic 2 door.
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Pry up the trap door in the door pull with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove the Phillips screw in the door pull
- Pry off the trap door in the door handle with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove the two Phillips screws in the door handle
- Pry up the power window switch
- Disconnect the switch wiring harnesses
- Pull the door handle out and remove the door handle rod
- Disconnect the door handle wiring harness
- Remove the two Phillips screws previously behind the door pull
- Remove the sail panel
- Pry out the door panel with a door panel clip tool or putty knife
- Lift the door panel up and off
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step 2 :Installing the Door Panel
- Lift the door panel into place
- Push in the door panel clips
- Insert the sail panel into place
- Insert the two Phillips screws into the door
- Connect the wiring harness to the power window switch
- Press the window switch into place
- Connect the door lock switch to the door handle
- Connect the door rod into the handle
- Press the handle into place
- Tighten the two Phillips screws to the door handle
- Insert the trim panel into the door handle
- Tighten the Phillips screw in the door pull
- Press the trap door into the door pull
Tools needed
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Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and reinstall a driver's door panel. This is a 2003 Honda Civic. It's obviously a two-door and we show you the driver side, but the passenger side is a similar procedure. The only tools you'll need are a Philips screwdriver and a flat head screwdriver.
Start out, there's a screw in here and two screws behind here. To get this screw, you pull up on this trap door. Pry the top and pull down to expose two Philips screws here. All right, you pry up on the front of this panel, pull it up and out, and on the harness there's a little tab. Press the tab to disconnect.
Then up on the door handle, pull out, there's a little clip right here. Push the clip off. Pull the lock up and out. Two screws, one here and one here. Remove those. Unplug. Now we're going to remove this top quarter turn. Let it hang to the side, and then there are clips that go into the door that you need to release all the way around. You want to put your fingers in underneath and pull firmly. This door panel's been apart before, so it came apart pretty easily, but you want to release them on the bottom and then up top here. Up top here, and then the panel should pull up off the window ledge and off.
These are the clips that hold it in. They just slide out and slide back in. You can see down here, a couple of them are missing. If one or two are missing, that's okay. If more are missing, you want to get some replacements and replace them.
Reinstallation: get your water shield back up in place. We use a little bit of tape to hold it. Make sure this is out of the way. Bring your panel up. Make sure the small harness goes through your door panel hole, and then the larger harness needs to go through for the power windows. Lift it up. Just make sure the harness for the speaker doesn't get caught.
Push it towards the window and down onto the ledge. Start by the front. Get your lock to come through. Make sure you lock comes through, push it down on the window ledge and it should be right in place. Reinstall the clips. For this clip right here, it's been put in incorrectly too many times so I'm going to have to actually guide it into the hole. Where's the hole? Reinstall your upper trim panel here. Reinstall the two screws from the door pull.
Reconnect the power window switch. The back goes down in first in place. Connect your door lock switch. Latch rod back in place. Just bring the clip around. Push it in. Put that back in place. Now fast-forward as we put those fasteners back in place and then put that trim panel back in place. Put this last screw back in place and flip the trap door down.
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