How To Replace Rear Inside Door Handle 1998-2001 Nissan Altima
Created on: 2012-06-21
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a broken or snapped off interior door handle on Nissan Altima model years 98, 99, 00, and 01.
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Pry off the trim piece inside the door pull with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove the Phillips head screw inside the door pull
- Pry off the door handle bezel with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pry up the switch panel
- Disconnect the window wiring harnesses
- Remove the door pull
- Pry out the door panel with a door panel clip tool or putty knife
- Lift the door panel up and off
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step 2 :Removing the Inside Door Handle
- Pry off the trim piece inside the door handle with a flat blade screwdriver
- Remove the Phillips head screw inside the door handle
- Slide the inside door handle back and out
- Pull off the clip holding the door lock and door handle rod
- Remove the door lock rod
- Remove the door handle rod
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step 3 :Installing the New Inside Door Handle
- Insert the door lock rod into the door handle
- Insert the door handle rod into the door handle
- Push in the door clip
- Slide the inside door handle into place
- Tighten the Phillips screw to the door handle
- Push the door handle trim into place
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step 4 :Reinstalling the Door Panel
- Lift the door panel into place
- Push in the door panel clips
- Push in the door handle bezel
- Connect the window wiring harness
- Push in the switch panel
- Push I the pull door pull cup
- Tighten the Phillips head screws to the door pull
- Push on the small door pull trim piece
Tools needed
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Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
Putty Knife
Door Panel Removal Tool
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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and reinstall a rear inside door handle on this 2000 Nissan Ultima. We do this on the driver side, but the passenger and rear side is the same. The only tools you'll need include a Phillips screwdriver, a small flat blade screwdriver, and probably a putty knife to pry the door panel off.
Start off by taking a flat blade screwdriver, and there's a little trim button right down in here. You have to be careful of all the sticky stuff down in here sometimes. Pry that up, and there's a Phillips screw there. Here, you need to carefully and you can see this is actually already been broken go in here, pry out, up here, pry out, and up here pry out as well to remove this bezel. You can see it has four places where clips go in. Here, I'm just using a Phillips screwdriver to take out that screw and pull up on that pull cup. It comes up and off and the switch comes with it. Backwards and out, and then underneath there's a tab on the harness where it connects. Push the tab down, disconnect the harness. Pull out, work your fingernails underneath, and pull out on the door panel to release a bunch of clips. Lift the panel up and off.
On the back of your handle, use a small flat blade screwdriver, and there's a little trim button covering a Philips screw. Now there's a Philips screw in here. Remove that and slide your handle. I've got to get the screw out here, small flat blade to take the screw out. Slide the handle back and out, you may have to pull your water shield down a little bit. Take your flat blade screwdriver and pop that clip open so you can pull those out. Basically, what you have to do is pull this one out this way, pull it up, and then turn the handle this way to pull this up and out.
When you go to put it back together, the straighter rod is the top rod, so you want to put this the one that has the hitch in it here on the bottom. Put that in first and twist. I put this in and pull up this way a little bit. Now to put this back together, pull your clip down over here, and make sure these go back in. Put the handle in, slide it forward, and lock that clip back up and around. Put the screw back in place, and the trim door button, and then your water shield back in place.
Okay, to put this on, you want to get the back clip in first. Go at it at a really good angle, push it up, and then on. Now bring the front up, push it in towards the window and down on. The edge is in, and put this back in place, put that in, and grab the harness. Reconnect that, push the front end in first and then the back down in. Put our Phillips screw back in, and then our little trim button.
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