How to Replace Inside Door Panel 2000-04 Ford Focus

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All right, on this driver's door panel, we're going to start by pulling this piece off. Just grab a trim tool, get underneath here and pry it out a little bit, and then it comes off towards the back. A couple of little clips that got stuck in there. Those little clips, we're going to transfer them back over to here when we go to re-install it.

We want to disconnect this mirror switch. Easiest way to do it is to pop this through. Just push it through that way, pull it through, and then there's a little tab right there on the connector. We'll just use a little screwdriver. Push on that tab. So we can get underneath the tab right there and disconnect it that way, and we can pull this trim off.

Now, there's a little cover right here. Just take a small screwdriver, get underneath there, and pop that cover off. There's going to be a T20 screw in there, so we'll use a T20 Torx bit and extension and a ratchet. Take this screw out. Pull that screw out.

Next, we're going to use a trim tool and take off this cover right here, over the handle. Get underneath there and pry it up. There's two, this happens to have a couple mismatch screws. It's probably going to be a Torx screw, or a Phillips head screw.

So we're going to use a Phillips head screwdriver on this one. Take that screw out. Alright, so this screw has a quarter inch head. So we're going to use a quarter inch socket and extension and a ratchet Since it's loose, I can just do it with the extension. Loosen it up and pull that screw out.

Next, we have these Torx screws that go along the outside of the door panel and the bottom--there's six of them. So we'll start by taking these off. We're going to use a T20 Torx bit and extension and a ratchet. Take all these out. Take these bolts out--I mean screws out. And there's two more of those Torx screws over here on the side, so eight in total. Take that one out and then we'll take this one out down here.

Okay, so we're going to pull this trim piece off. Just use a trim tool. Slide in underneath here, pop this off, pop this side off, and just pull it out. We're going to disconnect these electrical connectors. It looks like this one's messed up a little bit, so we'll just use a little pick. Push down, pull that connector off, and then over here, the connector right here, push that one down and pull that connector off. Now we'll grab the panel, pull it out, slide it up, and pull up on this back side. Pass the handle and pull the door panel out.

I'll take the door panel. Let's slide it on. Start in this corner work your way forward. Then angle it out a little bit. Make sure you pull these wiring harnesses through. This one goes here, this one goes over here. Just like that. Push it in, all the way around. Reinstall this bolt, this one, a quarter inch with the extension and ratchet.

This one had a Phillips head screw. Yours may have that quarter inch bolt. Tighten this up, snug. Now we're gonna install these T20 Torx bit screws. There's eight of them and there's two in here. Just get them started. And there's two on the back here. All right we'll tighten this one down.

We're going to install this handle. It goes this way, slides up there, lock it in place. All right, so we're going to slide the wiring harness through here first. I'm going to line this clip up with the door. One clip I left in the plastic trim piece, one clip I left in the door, slide it on there, and then push it that way. We can take this, connect this connector, we'll line the tab up, lock that in. I want this to go in like this and lock that in.

All right, so this wiring harness comes up like this, and connect that to the lock, that's supposed to slide in over here like this. Then we're gonna connect the window switch back here, just like that. Snap that in place, and over here get this lined up. Click that in down. Then we'll take our Torx screw and get that started, and then we'll snug it up. All right, take this little cap, push it on, snap it in place.

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