How to Replace Front Door Speaker 2006-12 Nissan Altima

Hey friends, today, I'm working on a 2010 Nissan Altima. I'm going to be showing you how to remove and replace your front speakers inside your left front door panel. If you want to do it on the right front, it will be pretty much the same procedure except on the opposite side of the vehicle so if you need any parts or instructional videos, you can always check in to 1aauto.com.

Hey, everybody so here we go. We're going to get inside this door panel so we can see what's going on in there. First thing I like to do is I like to get behind here. This is where the handle is. This is a little cover, right here. It should just pop right up so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a small screwdriver. Let me see if I can pry it up, pop it out. Okay. Behind here, you'll notice there's a Phillips heads screw so I'm going to turn that to the left, remove that. Now I'm going to come over here. I'm going to try to remove this little cover or armrest, I should say. I'm going to use something plastic to try to pry. I'm not trying to use something metal because I don't want to chisel up the rest of our door so here we go. Phillips head right here. Here we are, that's what it looks like. You can set that aside so we won't lose it. You take a look, there's nothing else back there that could hold this door panel on so we'll move along.

We're going to take this off now. I'm going to use something like this, okay. I'm going to come right here, see if I can pry it up. Okay, it's pretty tight. I'm going nice and slow because there are clips under here that I don't want to break. If something breaks, well, you break it, you bought it, right? I'm just going to go along. Once I get all this up, I'll show you where all the clips are so you can see why I'm trying to take it slow. Let's see if I can grab it. There we are. Feels like maybe one more. There we are. Okay, so you can see, we have all these slots right here. We've got all these clips. These clips are what was holding it in. This one was the main one. That one goes in here. That's why I was trying to start there first to get this undone. There where I can lift up, go along the line and unclip all these, all right. We'll set this aside.

Now we're going to take a look. We want to see what can be holding this plastic door panel on to the inner part of the door. It looks like we might have a screw here, screw there. Looks like a Phillips head or a 10 millimeter, depending on what you have access to. Since we already used a Phillips head, we're going to go with the assumption you have access to a Phillips set. I'm going to turn that to the left. This is a ratcheting screwdriver, it's wonderful. Electric screwdriver would be even nicer. I'm going to pull this out, here we are. Grab that second one. Here we are. Same size as the other one. We don't have to worry about mixing those up but they are quite a bit longer than this one. Now what I like to try to do, let me see if I can pull up on this. If it doesn't feel like it wants to come up, we can even just try to take the door panel off first and try to take a peek behind there.

There is going to be wiring, obviously. These are switches so they must have electrical current going to them or from them. Okay, something to pay attention to as well is there is a light down here, which also means that has electrical current getting to it so there's going to be wiring here, there's going to be wiring here so when we pull off this door panel, it's going to come off on the bottom this way and then up along the top, there's a little ridge that it sits down on to so when you get to the top, we're going to come popping, popping, pulling out and then it's going to come out and up this way to come off, all right. I'm going to grab my little tool again, use one that's a little thicker, one that's a little thinner, whatever you want to use, but I prefer to use plastic on this rather than metal just so I don't mess up my door panel too much.

This one might not be in the best condition but we'll just try to do it right. I'm going to try to come in, I'm going to try to pry away, okay. See if I can find approximately, all I'm trying to do is get in between the door and the panel, okay and turn my head around just for so I can get my head down in here a little bit better. Okay, so I can look down through here, I can see there's a clip. Here we are. There's one removed. I'm going to bring it down along here. Here we are, another one. Another one's right here. Here we are. I'm just pretty much following the door panel around the door. This kind of tells me where all the little clips are, okay. Can we come up this side? Feels like there should be one right about here somewhere. Here we are, bringing it up. Okay.

Here we go. Pull this away. Now we can see our wiring and our cables so we want to make sure we disconnect all this stuff. We want to try to avoid any tugs on wiring. If you pull out any wires from any switches or harnesses, we're going to have bigger issues and I can show you how to fix it all but let's not do that today. Let's just get the part done that we're trying to do. I'm going to try to take a look under here, see if I can take this off real quick. Just using my small screwdriver. Okay, we got a little electrical connector here, see about pushing that in, lifting it up and out. We're going to come in from behind here, try to take a look at what we're dealing with all right. We've got two cables. If you wanted to, you could mark them to try to remember which ones which or you can just remember the top that comes out the top right here, it comes to the top up here, okay. That's pretty easy to remember so we'll just go with that.

You could use something like a crayon that just pops right out of there. There's a little lip right here or a little, oh you can call it what you want. Think of what you want to call it, call it that, that slides into this hole right here, okay so if we were installing it, we would slide the little tip into that, hopefully. It's lubricated so it's hard to hold on to. Basically, it slides right in there and then slides like that and it locks it in, and then if you want to lock it back in, okay. We're going to be installing it again later anyway so here we go. I'm going to pull this one out as well. Trying to be careful not to break the latch. There we are. This one's a little bigger. No real nub. Just a big old circle. Okay.

Now we got the door panel. We're going to try to keep pulling it away but not putting too much tug pressure on this. If you need more slack, you can go ahead and pull these little pins out of the door and try to give yourself more slack. I'm just going to try to do it with the way that it is, this one right here. It's a little push pin. I'm going to try to push that in, pull this out. Always check your electrical connectors. I'm going to skip saying it on everyone, but I'm going to say it for this one. Check all your electrical connectors as you pull them off, make sure there's no funny colors, green, blue, red, rust, anything like that. If there is, you're going to need to do something about it, okay. See, I'm going to try to find the prong on this one. Feels like it's probably on the backside.

Here it is, right there. All I did was come around from the backside with my finger, squeeze on it, pull down, okay. Can't really see that because it's in here but it's very simple. You just grab it with your index, pop it out, okay. This one, I'm going to take a look at it. How does it go in? Don't mind me, hit my head. I'm just going to try to push, see if I can see it. There we go. Can you see it better now? I can see it better now. Here's our little push. We're going to try to push that in, pull out our electrical connector so, we can you use our small screwdriver if we want. Pull that out, take a peek. Looks good, all right, so now we've got our door panel off and out of the way. We've got our power wires that lead to our speaker. We've got our connector.

I'm going to use something as simple as a small pocket screwdriver. I'm going to push in, right there. I'm going to lift. It should want to pop up. If it doesn't, we can try to come in right through here. Give it a push right there. There we go. I originally tried pushing there, didn't seem to work so like I said, I went through this right here and then pushed up against there directly, okay. Now we've either got Phillips head or we can use 10 millimeter, depends on what you want to use. I'm just going to go with a 10 millimeter. I'm going to remove all three of these. Leave that one in a little bit. That's just so when I'm doing this one, I don't have to worry about the speaker falling out till I get the rest of my screws out of my hand. Now I can hold the speaker, we can finish taking out that last screw. Just grab this speaker, pops right out. Now you're all set to replace it.

Now we're going to put our speaker back in. First, we're going to check our electrical connections, see if you see any funny colors coming out of there or inside the speaker. You can look back here, if you have a lot of rust or anything like that or especially corrosion or rust on these. You're going to have a speaker issue, in which case you'd want to replace it. This looks fine so I'm going to go ahead and install it. I'm just going to put the little thumb connector, facing back where it goes, this is where we removed it from so that's where it's going to go back in. Click it in, okay. It is a magnet on the back so you might notice it wants to stick to the door panel. It's natural.

I'm going to put in the three screws. I'm just going to try to get them in, a thread or two and then I'll go around and I'll tighten them all up. Last one. I'm just going to get it snagged up. Yeah, feels good. We don't want to go too tight. We don't want to really crank down on it. We're just going to give it a little bit. We'll check them all, okay. That one feels nice and tight. Perfect. Let's move on to the next step.

These are all where our little prongs went into, you see anything that looks like this, this should be in the door, that just pulls right out. We'll check them all. It looks like we've only got one in here still. We're going to take our door trim tool. Try from whichever way you want, but essentially we just want to be able to pull that out. See if I can get it. There we are, okay. I'm going to put this right inside our door panel. We'll find the one that it came out of, bottom corner. It's got a little thick opening here, that goes right there so I'll just try to slide it in. There we are. Make sure all these are still in, okay. Everybody looks good. Perfect. Let's get this up here.

We're going to make sure we take this wiring. We're going to put it down through this hole. That's where the little lights going to be. You don't want to forget that because it's going to be hard to get it back out someday, all right. Now we can start connecting everything else if we want, we could do these up here or these down here. I'll start at the bottom and continue my way up to the top. We got the one for our window. Here we are, center one. It's the power for everything, got a little lock switch, great. Actually, this one right here, looks like it's for the window or the mirrors. Left and right, blah, blah, blah so there's that. That's what that one was. Perfect, all right, so we're shaking it around. We're going to look back down here. This came out.

Might have to put it back in again, who knows? Just wants to be out but we want it to be the way we put it so just keep grabbing it, keep doing in a tug, get it back out there. Obviously, you don't want to yank it right out of the thing. I'm going to try to hold it up against here. Now I'm going to grab our cables. Hopefully remember which way they go, top is on the top, bottom's on the bottom so I got my bottom one. I'm going to go right inside this hole right here. We got around with a round hole. I'm going to put it in, go over. I'm just going to push it in. Let's see if it'll go. Here it is. Take our top one, bring it back around. We got our little nub, little nub goes inside that nub hole, see if we can get it. There it is. Just going to get that into the slot. Just want to make sure it's in all the way, it's not.

If it isn't and it falls out, you'll have issues so just take your time, make sure you do it right. I'm going to try to spin it. Sometimes they can be a little bit of a pain. There it is. Perfect, so we don't have any more wiring in here. We can look down in. We know we got everything connected. We still got our little wire hanging off the bottom, we got little extra pieces. It's going to go like this. I'm going to start it and along the top, there's a little ridge that runs along here, that's going to sit inside this route right there. Okay, so once we get it sitting down on there, we can let go of our panel, double check for our little wire, it's still there. It's looking good, nice. Then we'll just go ahead and we'll take this and we'll bonk it in, going all the way around. Double checking. We've got our wire down here. Looks good. I'm going to start at the top. I'm going to just going across like this, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I want to go around, all right.

I'm making sure that this is pressed down as far as I can go. Got a little shake, feels good. Very nice. We can go ahead and put in our screws, we got the short one there. We're going to have two long ones, one there and one there. I'm using my Phillips head, I'm turning these clockwise. If you want it to, you could use a 10 millimeter. If you notice that you're trying to tighten these down and for some reason, the Phillips head kept sliding off or bouncing off or seem like it was stripping, you would want to make sure you use the 10 millimeter, but to help prevent your Phillips head from stripping, you can just press in at the same time. Here we are. I got my last one, the short one. Remember, it goes in behind here. Go that way, just go right up on the top, we'll go this way. There we are.

Now before we go too far, we want to make sure we test everything, right. We don't want to put everything together and then have to take even more apart, but we do need to have all this stuff in, just to make sure that everything's secure enough to use. Now we're going to try the window. I got the key power on, so we can try going down a little bit. Seems pretty good. Go up. Very nice. Go down, up. Perfect. I like to leave my window down when I'm working just in case I happen to close the door and it might be locked for some reason. I'm not going to lock myself out, all right, so let's move along.

I've got this little cover, might go here, doesn't go there. Move over here. We'll look at it real quick. We'll see we got a little tab right here. We got a little push tab right there. This one right here, obviously isn't a push tab, it needs to go in first and then push the backside in, okay, so I'll just pull this away and I'll put it in that little slot right there. Let's try to see if I can push this in. If it doesn't seem like it wants to click in, that's okay. There we are, seems good. Sits in there, nice and flush. We can move along. We can go ahead and do our arm rest. We notice we've got all these holes going along here, right. That's where all these are going to clip into, going along the line so I'm just going to take it, I'm going to line it up. Going to see if I can get them all popped in. Looks like it needs to go a little bit more on the backside here. See if I can get it, should have started with the back.

I'll just lift it back up. Let's see if I can get it started in. Something's going on, got this little tab right there. If it doesn't seem like it wants to go in because the tab is bending out, it's very common, it's okay. We'll just use our small screwdriver again, it's a very handy tool. We'll push it in, push it in, okay. It's going to come down the line, okay. We've got our little connector, you can see where the little lock tab is. We've got our connection area over here. The lock tab goes on this side right here where my finger is so I'm going to go ahead and line those up. Clip it in, right. We've got a couple little tabs here and then we've got our under tabs or whatever I guess you call them. These ones will slide in, but these need to go in first so I'm going to go like this. There's a couple little holes under here. I'm going to line up those tabs with my holes. Just going to lift it up, click it in. All right, door panels on. Now we've completed our job.

Great job, everybody.

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