How to Replace Rear Door Speaker 2000-07 Toyota Highlander
Created on: 2018-03-14
How to install, repair, fix, change or replace a broken, damaged, or burned out door speaker on 04 Toyota Highlander.
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step 1 :Removing the Rear Door Panel
- Pry up the door pull with a trim tool
- Remove the Phillips screw
- 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
- Pry out the edges of the door panel
- Lift the door panel up and off of the door
- Disconnect the power window switch
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step 2 :Removing the Speaker
- Remove the three 10mm bolts from the speaker
- Remove the speaker from the door
- Disconnect the speaker wiring harness
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step 3 :Installing the Speaker
- Insert the speaker into place
- Tighten the 10mm bolts to the speaker
- Connect the motor wiring harness
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step 4 :Installing the Rear Door Panel
- Connect the window switch
- Press the door panel onto the door
- Tighten the Phillips screw to the panel
- Press on the door handle trim
- Tighten the Phillips screw to the door handle
- Press on the trim door
- Press on the door pull
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
10mm Socket
Ratchet
Trim Tool Set
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To remove the grab handle pocket, take our plastic prying tool. You can get these from 1AAuto.com. You go underneath gently and then kind of push it in and catch the metal tab. Push it in, and then up and it should pull right out. You might need to do the same thing on this side, but sometimes it'll pop right up. There's two metal tabs there, it comes right out.
Remove the Phillips head screw that's inside here using a Phillips head screwdriver. Take that right out. Open up this little cover here to get to the screw that's behind it, using a small flat bladed screwdriver. Just pop it open. There's a Phillips head screw in here. Remove that. Pop this cover off so you can actually go up here with a plastic prying tool. Kind of pry it up, and it's going to pry off the bottom in the same way. Then it's going to pull out this way and unhook. Probably have to open up this lever, so unhooking it from there too.
The door trim is clipped into the metal part of the door, so I'm going to need to get in here and pull it from the clips. If you can't get your fingers underneath here, use a plastic prying tool to wedge the plastic prying tool in between the plastic and the metal. Just kind of find your way in here and slide it down. I like to start at the bottom. Use a plastic prying tool—a bigger one to find your way underneath. Like that and then just pry it out. Go on the edge, and then once you can get your hands in there, then you can start to pull out the rest of the clips.
What's going to happen, it's going to lift up like this and the top of the door clips over in the metal part. We'll lift it straight up. Now, you need to unplug, this is the power window switch so you're going to have to reach under here, unlock. It's on this side. Push it in. Pull it out. To remove the door speaker unplug it from here then remove the three 10 millimeter self-tapping bolts that are on the outside edge. You also have a Phillips head cut out in them but I'm going to use the 10 millimeter socket and ratchet. It's a lot easier. Pull the speaker out of the door, feed it out because it does have a hook here.
To reinstall the speaker, there's a hook that goes over here. The electrical connector is in the top. Hook it in place, line it up with the plastic grommets while I get this top one started. Install the other two self-tapping bolts. Reconnect the electrical connector. The speaker is all set.
If one of your door clips stays stuck in the door, you take your clip puller tool and just put in in here. Pop it out. Push that back into the door panel and reuse it. These clips sit in here just like this, so just find the one that's missing. Put it back in place. Just slide it in, and you can reinstall the door panel.
Plug in our window switch. Just goes up from the bottom, it's a key that only goes in one way. The lock is kind of facing the outside, it goes in it will click when it locks in place. Going to lift up our door panel, the top is curved. It's going to hang on the door panel just like that. So we'll start it up top. This doesn't matter if the window is up or down for this. It sits all the way down, because that should go over the pull handle freely.
Get it lined up, start to push it back in on the clips. Reinstall the Phillips head screw. Reinstall this trim cover. It does have a hook here so it's going to you have to lift out this handle and slide it in and then kind of hook it. Then it's got these tabs on both top and bottom that will push in and over the plastic. Reinstall the screw. Oh, there we go. Push the door back in. Reinstall the little pull handle. There's an arrow, it points outwards so when you flip it this way the arrow will be pointing this way. Just push it right back into place.
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