How to Replace Liftgate Door Check 2005-16 Toyota RAV4

What's up guys? I'm Andy from 1A Auto. In this video I'm going to show you how to replace the cargo door check on this 2010 Toyota RAV4. If you need parts for your vehicle, click the link in the description and head over to 1aauto.com.

Open the back door. All right. Just take this trim piece off. We'll just use a trim tool. Just get underneath here. This is connected right here as well. Slide that off. Some of these trim push pins pop out to reinstall those afterwards. Take that off. Those are clipped in. We'll take this trim piece off. It kind of comes out at an angle, like that. That's clipped in in the back side. Same on this side. Just like that, and I'll take this panel out. Just take a trim tool. I'm just going to go around. Pop these trim pieces out. There. There's one in right here. Here we go.

Just go. Just go all the way around. Top one's the difficult one. And there's a couple of push pins in right there, so sometimes it's easier just to grab it, pop it out, just use a little force. There we go. There's our pop in right there. There's a wiring harness right here. Disconnect that. Let's put that cargo light just like that, and the light right here.

There we go. This harness actually goes up to the rear defroster grid. There you go. There's that panel. Just want to take some of this vapor barrier out of the way. I can just take a razor blade or utility knife and cut some of this butyl tape. You could heat it up with heat gun if you want to, or just do it this way. Whatever works for you. Sometimes it just peels right off pretty easily. Be careful, don't get it on any of your clothes. It doesn't come off very easily. Just fold it over there, just leave it there for now. We're going to start by taking these two nuts out. I'm going to use a 10 millimeter socket and a electric ratchet. If you don't have an electric one, you can use a regular one.

Going to loosen. Coming out. Take that one out. All right, and let's take this bolt out. Just use a 10 millimeter socket. I'm using an extension to make it easier. Loosen this up and then a ratchet. Now when you're taking this out, you want to make sure it's either not a windy day or that you support the door, because now the door without this in position, it's going to be moving all over the place. Or have a friend hold the door for you. Grab the door check and just slide it through this wall. There you go.

Take the door check, slide it through here, you can guide it to the hole in the door, right there. Slide that into position. I'm going to start with putting the bolt on first. You can put some lock, thread locker on that bolt if you want to. Take your 10 millimeter socket extension and ratchet, and tighten it down. Then Just snug it up. That's good. Take the two nuts. Get those started. 10 millimeter socket and ratchet. Tighten these down.

Then you're good to go. All right. Now we just want to reattach the vapor barrier. Just line it up how it was before when you took it off. Press it down. If you need some more butyl tape, you can add some butyl tape. It looks pretty good. All right, I'm just going to take these push clips out. I have this tool that we actually sell at 1aauto.com. Actually works pretty slick. You just slide it in there. Pop those out. There's another one right there.

All right. For this panel, we'll put these clips back in here. Right there. All right, now we can reconnect this rear defrost. We didn't need to disconnect that, but that's okay. And that should slide in this area. That's actually taped to that. So if you want to retape that, and then connect this light back up, just line the connector up, snap it in. And then just line everything up. Once that's lined up, just push it on. Make sure it's all flush with the vehicle. Put this clip back on there. Line this up over here, put it up down there, and then line the holes up. Lock it in place. Do the same with the other side. All right. We'll take these two clips out. Just use this tool. Slide those up. Put those in the panel. We'll just line the panel up, line all the push pins up, and lock it in place.

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