How to Replace Rear Door Check 2006-11 Toyota Camry

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I’m working on the rear passenger door. I’m going to remove it. We're going to use these plastic trim tools. You can get these from 1AAuto.com. Pry out this plastic piece that's behind here. Pop the trim tool in here. I’m just going to hold open the door handle. That pops it right out. Put that aside. Remove the screw with a Phillips head screwdriver.

Use our plastic trim tool again. Slide it under here. Pop this handle cover off. Just kind of work it underneath. Put that aside. There's two screws, Phillips head. Remove those. If that screw stays in there, that's fine; we can grab it after we pop the door off. With the three screws removed, we can pop the door off the clips. There's a bit of a lip here, just on the inside of the door. Pull behind it, and I can reach underneath. You just want to reach around the edge of the door, and we pick the door panel up and up from the door. There's the screw that fell out.

Pull the door handle and lock mechanism out, just pops it out, and it'll sit there. Unplug the harness for the window switch. Push in on the lock. Put the door panel aside.

These push clips, they're not damaged; they just popped out. One stuck in the door. I'll use a trim tool to pop that one out. This one went down here and came out, so I'm just going to put it back in. It just slides back into place. It can be reused. I've just got to get that one out of the door.

Going to disconnect the handle that opens the door. Also has the door lock on here. Just going to push the cable up and out and slide that little lead weight. Pop it right out. Same for the other one. Take note that the white was on the top, the green was on the bottom so when you go to put it back together, you don't reverse them.

We need to pull this vapor barrier off the door. It's got butyl tape around it that's sealing it. I can be reused. This is where you're going to want to wear gloves because this stuff is very, very sticky and it kind of gets everywhere but you basically just carefully peel this back. You can have a razor blade with you with you, and you can just kind of cut it. It helps on a warmer day to do this. If it peels off, don't worry about it because this stuff is incredibly sticky and we should be able to reuse this piece without much issue. I'm just going to carefully cut that. Try not to stretch the pink plastic too much.

As you're moving along, this harness is kind of in this opening here. I'm going to feed the harness back through, and I'm just going to keep peeling it. I'm going to feed these wires out, actually these are the cables. They kind of sit there. I'm going to put this aside, obviously sticky side up so that we can reuse it.

Your door check is here inside the door. We removed all of this just because we were doing other stuff. You could just peel it back. It might get stuck to you but you don't have to take the whole thing off. This will we the same for all the other doors. The driver's side, the front doors. This might be a little deeper in there. You might have to reach in from here. This is nice because you can see what we're doing, but all the bolts and hardware on the outside.

This door check is broken, and the door is just swinging open. You can replace it. Going to start with this 10 millimeter bolt that's on the body. Break it free. You want to put that aside. Now I remove these 10 millimeter nuts that are on the studs here. Get these loosened up and just be careful because the door is going to want to swing around on you. Loosen them by hand, and we'll take them out. Slide the door check out this way, and we replace the door check, so see, without the door check, the door just wants to close. Open it. When these are worn out or broken, you have a door that doesn't want to stay open. Just be careful when you're doing this, that you don't get your fingers caught in here.

To reinstall it, you're going to feed it through the door. Get these studs lined out. I'm going to need to push the door open a little bit. Get these caught. I'm going to pull the door in. Looks like it already had some lock tight on it, that's fine. Get that tight, and tighten these down. The door check is replaced, so the door will stay open and it doesn't close too fast. You can actually see there's a couple stops for it. There's a stop here and a stop at the very open part of it. We got our original vapor barrier here. Still has a lot of the butyl tape left on there. If you need to get more butyl tape, it's pretty easy to get and you can just put some more on there.

First, I'm going to feed the cables through. Just got to get them through. Just kind of let it hang on the cables. I'm going to feed the harness up and through. That's everything, so I'm just going to kind of line it up roughly where it was before and just push it back into place. Don't worry too much about any wrinkles. Just push it down and it'll seal. In this car, the white cable went on top, and the green one went on the bottom.

You can kind of tell by the length of the cable which one fits better, because they will both fit in both spots, but you'll end up crossing them so this will want to open the door and this will want to lock the doors, which you don't want that. You want this to open the door, and you want this to lock the door. White one's going to go in the top, but that little lead weight and the end of the cable in like that. Put it over. Put the green one in just like that. That works the door.

Now we're going to need to install our door panel. Take our door panel, make sure all of our clips are okay. Take this, it's going to slide in like that. There's two pins in the top and the bottom that match this. It pops into place. Don't forget to plug in your window switch. Nothing like putting this together and then having to take it back off to plug it back in. There's a groove in here with some clips. They're going to snap into place in here so I'm going to start with the door panel kind of on the high end. It might be easier with the window down but you can do it with the window up. I'm just going to snap it down into place. Then we're going to go down, push all the clips in. Start with the small screw that's behind this. Put the plastic cover back in. You'll start by pushing that clip in first, then it'll snap in the back ones, so open the door handle, snap that into place. We have to do the other two screws in the door handle. Just kind of goes straight on.

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