How to Replace Front Interior Door Handle 2014-19 Chevy Silverado
Created on: 2019-04-17
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a broken or snapped off interior door handleon 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 Chevy Silverado
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step 1 :Removing the Front Door Panel
- Turn off the dome light
- Remove the trim door behind the door handle with a pick
- Remove the trim door from the door pull with a pick
- Pull out the trim panel along the door pull and master switch panel
- Remove the six 7mm bolts: two from the door pull; one from the door handle; one beside the master switch; and two along the bottom of the door panel
- Release the door panel from its clips by pulling straight out
- Lift the door panel from the door lock rod
- Pull the door cable back, around, and out
- Disconnect the master switch wiring harness
- If the weatherstrip removed with the door panel, pull the stripping back, pry down on the clip, and pull the weatherstrip back and off
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step 2 :Removing the Interior Door Handle
- Remove the five Phillips screws from the door handle
- Press the locking pick with a flat blade screwdriver
- Disconnect the wiring harness
- Remove the interior door handle
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step 3 :Installing the Interior Door Handle
- Insert the interior door handle into the door
- Connect the wiring harness
- Tighten the five Phillips screws to the door handle
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step 4 :Installing the Front Door Panel
- If needed, insert the weatherstrip clips to the door
- Press the weatherstrip on
- Connect the wiring harness
- Insert the window trim into place
- Press the clips in to the window trim
- Place the weatherstripping over the window trim
- Connect the door handle cable
- Connect the master switch panel wiring harness
- Insert the door panel into place
- Press in the door panel clips
- Tighten the six 7mm bolts: Remove the six 7mm bolts: two from the door pull; one from the door handle; one beside the master switch; and two along the bottom of the door panel
- Press on the trim panel along the door pull and master switch panel
- Replace the trim door in the door pull
- Replace the trim door behind the door handle
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
7mm Socket
10mm Socket
Ratchet
Needle nose pliers
Trim Tool Set
Pick
Hey, how you doing? Mike from 1A Auto. Going to show you today how to remove and replace your inside door handle. This is a 2015 Silverado, and pretty much the same for 2014 to 2018 Silverado 1500.
If you're going to be working with the doors open, good idea, this switch right up here shuts off your dome light. Middle position is on, with the doors open. Over here is permanently on, and then you can see the lights right here shut it off. That way your lights aren't draining the battery while you're working on your door.
First you're going to want to remove these little doors: there's one here and there's a little indent down at the bottom. You want to use a little 90 pick, available at 1aauto.com. Pull the bottom of that out, and then that panel comes out, and then there's another one right down in here, same thing there's an indent in the front. Work the pick right in there and go down first underneath. Pull it up.
Now this panel comes off and this one can be a little unnerving. You just have to pull hard ans it does release. Sometimes these metal clips will fall into the door, but you actually want to retrieve them, and you can do it just by kind of squeezing them. I'm prying up with the screwdriver, and then down with my finger. And sometimes these will fall down into the door, and you just have to wait until you have the door panel off to retrieve them. But you can just push them right back onto the panel so that when you go to reinstall it there they are.
Now, six 7 mm bolts hold it. There's one way back in here, one right up here, two down here, and two at the bottom of the door panel. I'll remove those. Use a 7 mm socket with a ratchet and extension.
Alright, so we've got the six boats out. This part can be the worst part, because now it's just clipped in place, but these clips can really hold on tight sometimes. I just work my hand underneath this corner. And then I grab right here and I just give a good pull. Okay, and then there're clips all the way up at the top that release.
Door panel comes off. Go up, release your door handle cable by pressing down here and then pulling back. Okay, and then work it around, and pull it up and out. And then there's this single latchable connector here. Push on the black tab while you pull up on the gray tab. Okay, and then then bring the gray locking tab out and that unlocks.
If you did pull the panel up and off and this weatherstrip went with the door panel, you're going to want to remove this piece of weatherstrip. Pull it down, and you can see some clips back in there, and pry down with the small screwdriver and then pull up to release each clip. And you can see the clips actually come off as we go.
Remove the door panel, put yourself on a nice table, turn over the backside and there are five screws to remove. And you might have to pull this back just a little bit. Take a flat bed screwdriver and you want to pull this light out. It just kind of snaps out. And you can remove it from the little holder that is right there.
And then there's a locking tooth here. Lift up your door panel. Press on this. It requires a little bit of strength, push on it and push down to get the handle out.
Install a new door handle and put it into place. You got to slide the back in, and down, and then push it up into place. You might have some insulation in the way. There's a little lock right here. Push up into place and make sure that's locked. Put this wire back into place. It kind of goes above the little, above there, underneath there, above there, and then this light, just put down into place. And press back in and then reinstall your five screws that hold it in place.
I've got all my screws in and tighten preliminarily. Now I'm just going to go back in and tighten them up.
If your door lock fell out of place, just put it back up into place. And then these clips slide back down onto the door, and the weatherstrip goes back in place. This part seals against the window.
Now your panel, put the door handle cable on first. Put it down in, and pull back and around. And then slide it forwards into place. And then your connection down here, lift up. Put the connection in place, get it going, and then slide, or pivot that locking tab up, and there's two larger line up pins, one here and one on the front here. So just kind of look things into place.
Make sure you lift this up, get your lock into place, down, and then I can see that line up pin right there. And this front line up pin there. Okay, and it locks into place.
Now we're going to put our six 7 mm screws back in. One was here, one here, two here, and then two down low. This one that we're going to put in here, we're just going to to put a little piece of paper towel on there, hold it in place. Put it in, start it going, and I'll start the rest of them.
Alright, now we'll tighten those up. And you don't want to get these too tight, get them nice and firm, and that's good. They're only going into plastic.
Panel's back in, curves the soft corners at, your going to put the top up and in. You're going to snap it back in place.
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