How to Replace Front Door Speaker 1997-2006 BMW 325Xi
Created on: 2019-06-11
Learn how to replace the front door speaker in your 97-06 BMW 3 Series with this video from 1A Auto. See the whole process step by step!
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step 1 :Removing the Front Door Panel
- Pry up the mirror switch with a trim tool
- Disconnect the wiring harness
- Pry out the wood grain trim with a trim tool
- Pry out the trim covers underneath the arm rest with a trim tool
- Remove the five T20 Torx screws from the door panel
- Pry out around the door panel with a trim tool
- Lift the door panel up and off
- Disconnect the handle cable
- Unclip and disconnect the speaker wiring harnesses
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step 2 :Removing the Front Door Speaker
- Remove the three Phillips screws securing the speaker to the door panel
- Remove the door speaker
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step 3 :Installing the Front Door Speaker
- Install the door speaker into the door panel with the three mounting tabs aligned with the screw holes
- Tighten the three Phillips screws
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step 4 :Installing the Front Door Panel
- Clip on and connect the speaker wiring harnesses to the door panel
- Pass the mirror switch wiring harness through the panel
- Reconnect the door handle cable
- Lift the door panel up into place
- Tap in the door panel clips
- Tighten the five T20 Torx screws to the door panel
- Press on the trim clips underneath the arm rest
- Press on the wood grain trim
- Connect the switch wiring harness
- Press the mirror switch into the door panel
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
T20 Driver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
Ratchet
Magnet - Extendable
Trim Tool Set
What's up, guys? I'm Andy from 1aauto. In this video, I'm going to show you how to remove and reinstall the front door speaker on this 2001 BMW 325xi. If you need parts for your vehicle, click the link in the description and head over to 1aauto.com.
To pull the switch out, you want to use something really thin. You can use a trim tool or a really small pocket screw driver. Get in here. Just be careful. You don't want to ruin the door panel. You can try to put your plastic trim tool behind it to try to prevent from damaging the panel. Get underneath here. Get under there and it'll slide right up.
Just disconnect the connector. Just grab it and slide it up. Take a trim tool. We want to take this trim off right here. Just slide it behind here. Gently pry behind here being careful. Pop this out with some clips. Hold it on. This one popped out but we can pop that back in.
And with my trim tool, just get underneath here. Take these little covers off. Pop those off. Now I can take these screws out. There's five of them. I'm going to use a T20 extension and a ratchet. You can use a little magnet to get the screws out. Now I'm going to get a trim tool and we'll just pry behind the door panel. Just going to pry it out.
You want to make sure you pry it out this way. Slide it off the lock rod. Beware of those clips. That's why you want to slide it straight out. Now we can disconnect the handle right here and just pry it up like that and slide it out. That's actually really easy.
Take these wires off. You can use a trim tool. Get behind here. Pop these off. Disconnect the speakers. Just use a small blade screwdriver. There's no lock on that, but there is one on this one. You just squeeze it just like that. I'm going to take a Phillip's head screwdriver. There's three screws, one up there, and then two down here. Take those screws out. With those screws out, just slide up on the speaker.
Now we'll just line these tabs up with the screw holes. Take the screws, get these restarted using our Phillip's head screwdriver and snug them down. Now we want to reconnect the speaker wiring harness and connect the big speaker. Then we'll connect the tweeter right there.
This wiring harness is going to slide through here just like that. Then push this retainer right here. Make sure this wire comes through here just like that. Then when we connect up this latch cable, we want to make sure that this inside latch is in the closed position like that. Then slide this in here. Latch it in place. Double check to make sure it's working properly, which it is.
Slide on to the lock rod. Get everything lined up and just push it back on. Then we can reinstall the screws. Remember, the long screw goes right here and then the short ones go in the other places. So shorter screw goes right here using a T20 socket and a ratchet and extension. Smaller one goes right there and then also under the arm rest.
All right. Those are all tight. These little covers go in the bottom one. Just line those up. Push them in. This cover goes on top. Let's just pop this piece off right here. Take a straight blade screwdriver. Pop this off. That can go right there. Take this piece, line it up.
Get that lined up. There is two little tabs on the front of this, so get those in first. Take the mirror switch. Let's connect the connector. It only goes on one way. Slide it in position. Push it straight down.
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