How to Replace Rear Window Switch 2000-07 Toyota Highlander
Created on: 2018-03-15
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a damaged, worn out, faulty or shorted power window switch on 04 Toyota Highlander.
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step 1 :Removing the 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 Rear Window Switch
- Pry the window switch out with a flat blade screwdriver
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step 3 :Installing the Rear Window Switch
- Insert the switch into the door
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step 4 :Installing the Rear Door Panel
- Connect the window switch
- Press the door panel onto the door ledge
- Press in the door panel clips
- 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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Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
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 then the top of the door clips over the metal part. I'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 and pull it out. The door panel can be removed and put aside.
To remove the window switch, just got to push this insulation out of the way. Take a small, flat-bladed screwdriver and gently pry out and pull up at the same time. There's a plastic lock in here, so just gently pull it up. Then you'll go in this way, push it up, and lift straight up. It has the same on the other side. You really can't get to it; just lift it up and out.
To reinstall the switch, you have to line up these two tabs with these two openings, here, and push it right in place.
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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