How to Replace Front Door Tweeter 2000-07 Toyota Highlander
Created on: 2018-03-13
How to install, repair, fix, change or replace a broken, damaged, or burned out door tweeter on 04 Toyota Highlander
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Pry up the master window switch with a trim tool
- Disconnect the wiring harness
- Remove the switch
- Pry up the door pull with a trim tool
- Pry off the sail panel with a trim tool
- Pry off the trim door on the door handle
- Remove the Phillips screw from the door handle
- Pop the trim off from the door handle
- Pres in the push clip and remove it from the door panel
- Remove the Phillips screw from the door panel
- Pry out the edges of the door panel
- Lift the door panel up and off of the door
- Disconnect the courtesy light
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step 2 :Removing the Front Door Tweeter
- Disconnect the wiring harness
- Remove the 10mm bolt from the tweeter
- Remove the tweeter
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step 3 :Installing the Front Door Tweeter
- Insert the tweeter into place
- Tighten the 10mm bolt to the tweeter
- Connect the wiring harness
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step 4 :Installing the Door Panel
- Connect the courtesy light
- Press the door panel onto the door
- Tighten the Phillips screw to the panel
- Press in the push clip
- Press on the door handle trim
- Tighten the Phillips screw to the door handle
- Press on the trim door
- Press on the door pull
- Press on the sail panel
- Connect the wiring harness to the master window switch
- Press the master window switch into the door panel
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
10mm Socket
Ratchet
Trim Tool Set
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Open the door. To remove the master window switch we're going to use the plastic trim tool. You can get these from 1AAuto.com. Otherwise, you'd have to use a flat bladed screwdriver, and you could damage your trim with the hard metal. These are nice, soft plastic, and then kind of get underneath here, it's a little tight fit, and kind of slide it to the middle. There's a clip, we're going to push in this way, and at the same time pry up to pull the master window switch out of the door panel. Put this aside here. Now you can unlock the connector. There’s a tab here, push down and pull out on the switch to pull it out. Put the master window switch aside.
We need to remove this little door handle pull. This little pocket here, where your hand goes. Use the plastic prying tools to kind of go underneath to kind of catch the metal and then pop it up, just like that, and if this side doesn't come, you have to do the same thing, there's a similar clip, pop it up, pull it out, see what you were doing is you were going underneath, pushing in on this metal tab to unlock it.
To remove this black trim cover, take the plastic prying tool, reach in here, just pop it out, and pull that right out. You need a small flat blade screwdriver to carefully open this little door here to expose the screw that's behind it. Use a Phillips head screwdriver to remove the screw. Take the plastic prying tool, there's a slight opening just above the lock, push the plastic prying tool up, and then pop it up off, pull it down so it pulls down from this one. That needs to go out this way, and then you'll have to move this. So you're unhooking it by going this way, and then you're just feeding it off the lever.
To remove this push clip, actually push in on the center. It unlocks it, and then you can take the other side of your plastic prying tool and get underneath it and pry it right out, then to reuse it. Just push it right back out through, and put that aside. Remove the Phillips head screw that was inside our opening for our little cup here, pull handle, using a Phillips head screwdriver.
The rest of the door panel is held on with clips along the edge. As you pull this off you will need to unplug the courtesy light that should be the only thing that is plugged into the door panel. You just kind of reach underneath, and if you need to, you can use a plastic trim tool, but there's a little bit of a finger hold here I can get it in, get my fingers in, and pull out. And we're going to lift up off of the steel part of the door. The door panel kind of hooks around the top, so lift up and straight out. And the only thing plugged in, I can turn this, so I can see it, is the courtesy light. You’re going to push in on the lock and pull it right out. Put our door panel aside.
Unplug the tweeter. Push in on the lock and pull the connector down. It's held in with a 10 millimeter bolt. Use a 10 millimeter socket, ratchet, and extension. Move it. Put that aside. It's also clipped into the door panel. Pull it out.
To reinstall it, slide it in place. Get the bolt started. It's just a self-tapping bolt, going into this grommet. Use my socket and ratchet. It's tight, so I will just stop and plug it back in. It will click when it locks in place. If one of these clips gets stuck, you can just take a trim panel tool, pull it in here, and pop it out. Put it back in your door panel and reuse it. This one in down here. Just kind of push them in place. Plug in the courtesy light. There we go.
The top of the door panel is kind of curved—it's going to hook over the metal frame, so I'm going to start by going up in here. It doesn't matter if the window is up or down. Hang it over it, and then we'll get it in place. Make sure that your master window switch harness is accessible, and now we can push it into place on the clips. It will snap into place. Just go around the door, and push them in place. Put a push clip back in.
Reinstall the screw that was under the door pull handle. Reinstall this door handle pull, the arrow points toward the inside, push it in, just like that. Reinstall this cover. It has a hook that's going to hook into here in the black plastic, so we're going to lift that up and slide it this way. Get it hooked first, and then push this in and we reinstall the screw.
Reinstall this black A-pillar cap. It just slides in place and then snaps in. Put the harness back in. It will click when it locks in place. There's a tab here that will slide underneath, and then this metal tab is going to push into this opening here.
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