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In this video we're going to show you how to remove and install a front door latch cable on this 2003 Ford Focus. We'll show you the driver side; the passenger side is pretty much the same procedure. The tools you'll need are: small and regular size flat blade screwdrivers, a T20 Torx driver . it can either be a socket or just a kind of a screwdriver style , then, a 7 mm socket with ratchet and extension, as well as, a T30 Torx socket with a ratchet.
On this door, first at the top corner, you'll want to pull your trim out. It should pull. This has already come off. You pull out, and then it pulls back and off. We can disconnect this. This, use your small screwdriver, and then you actually kind of just pry in here on this side of the connection Pull it out. I'm just going to speed it up here. For those screws use a T20 Torx bit. So, use your T20 Torx bit and remove all of them. You want to pry this off. It's easiest to get right here in the back. Pry that out. It comes right off. Take your 7 mm socket, the extension and ratchet. A quarter mm socket, actually, works as well. Remove these two bolts. If you noticed, I said a quarter millimeter; that's actually a quarter inch socket works just as well as the 7mm socket. For this handle, actually reach right in here. Hold firmly and up here, do the same thing, pull firmly. Pull this panel out, and then disconnect this. There's a little tab. It's back behind the wires. Push that tab down. Pull that out. The tab's actually right on the back. Push it down. Do the same thing over here. There are a couple of harnesses. It just has a tab that you press with your thumb. Pull out. It's disconnected. Now you can just take your panel, pull it out and up, and pull it off. You'll need to remove this foam insulator block. Grab the clips, turn a little bit counter-clockwise, and it comes off.
You'll want a T30 Torx driver with a socket like this. You'll need to remove these three bolts back here on the door. Pull your door handle off. It's pretty tough. It's off. The cable comes out of here. Just pull it up. As long as your lock mechanism is like that, it pulls right out. Pull this down. Your lock mechanism is right here. You have to pull the cable out. Then you have to clock it around, and pull it out of the lock mechanism. It comes out.
Here's a better shot of that as we reinstall it. I'll put the cable in there. Push it right in that slot, and work it around. You can let that go pack in. Put your cable right in there and push it into place. Take your door handle, put the cable right back down in, and lock it down in place. Put your door handle in. Clip it back on. Put your water shield back in place. Reinstall the insulator block by putting it in place with the clips lined up, and then rotate it a little bit clockwise, and snap it in place.
I'm going to fast forward through putting the door panel back together. If you want to see this in regular motion, you can just check out our other videos. Hang the panel back up on the ledge. Reconnect the mirror switch. Reconnect the window switches. And, put those trim panels back in place. Then, put the bolts back in for the door pull. Now, I'm going to fast forward as I take those two 7 mm bolts, reinsert them into that door pull and tighten them up. Then, put the trim panel, and snap it back into place. You want to put the top in first, and then, snap the bottom into place. Continue that speed as I just take the seven T20 screws. One goes in the door handle, the rest go around the perimeter of the door panel, and put those in and tighten them up. Last but not least, put the little trim panel over the screw in the door handle.
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All right, on this driver's door panel, we're going to start by pulling this piece off. Just grab a trim tool, get underneath here, pry it out a little bit, and then it comes off towards the back. A couple of little clips that got stuck in there. These little clips, we're going to transfer him back over to here when we go to reinstall it.
All right, we want to disconnect this mirror switch. The easiest way to do it is to pop this through. Just push it through that way. Pull it through, and then there's a little tab right there on the connector. We'll just use a little screwdriver to push on that tab. So we can get underneath the tab right there and it's disconnected that way, and we can pull this trim off. Now there's a little cover right here. Just take a small screwdriver, get underneath there, and pop that cover off. There's going to be a T20 screw in there, so we'll use a T20 Torx bit and extension and a ratchet. Take this screw out. Pull that screw out. Next, we're going to use a trim tool and take off this cover right here over the handle. Get underneath there and pry it up. There's two. This happens to have a couple of mismatched screws. It's probably going to be a Torx, a Torx screw, or a Phillips head screw. So we're going to use a Phillips head screwdriver on this one. Take that screw out.
All right, so this screw has a quarter inch head. So we're going to use a quarter inch socket and extension and a ratchet. Once it's loose, I can just do it with the extension. Loosen it up and pull that screw out. Next we have these Torx screws that go along the outside of the door panel in the bottom, there's six of them. So we'll start by taking these off. We're going to use the T20 Torx bit and extension and a ratchet. Take all these out. Take all these bolts out--I mean screws out. And there's two more of those Torx screws over here on the side. So eight in total. Take that one out and then we'll take this one out down here.
All right, so we're going to pull this trim piece off. Just use a trim tool. Slide in underneath here. Pop this off, pop this side off, and just pull it out. We're going to disconnect these electrical connectors. Looks like this one's messed up a little bit. So we'll just use a little pick. Push down and pull that connector off. And then over here, there's a connector right here. Push that one down and pull that connector off. Now we'll grab the panel, pull it out, slide it up, pull up on this back side, and past the handle. Pull the door panel out.
All right, now we're going to pull back on this, the weather guard. This has been off before, so it was easy to take off. You could take a razor blade and cut it off. So there's a little rubber grommet right here. Take that, grab it from the inside, and push it out. That will access this little Torx screw right there. Can you see that? So we're going to take a T20, an extension and a ratchet. We'll take that out. I'm going to have my other hand holding it on the inside so it doesn't fall. Loosen it up. I can get it by hand. It's an awfully long screw. All right, pull that screw out.
All right, we're going to roll the window up. We're just going to take the switch, and we'll connect it right here to the connector. Lock that in. I'll turn our key on and then push the window up. To get this door, inner door handle off, we're just going to pull this from the front. All right just take a trim tool. Stick it behind. Just pop it out. We'll slide it that way. These little tabs hold it in, and then it slides. To get this cable off, you want to put it in the lock position. Be careful because you're going to have your door in the lock position. You don't want to close the door by accident, so let me just grab this. Pull up and then that slides out of there. You see that and that's in the lock position. Then you're able to get slide that cable out.
We're going to take this out of our way. Just a little clip here. I'm just going to twist it. Take a screwdriver, slide that out like that, and here's another one down here. There's two right here. Just slide those up. Just like that. And this peels off. This is another one down here. Pull that foam off. I'm going to take this little plastic retainer off with a door retaining tool/remover tool. Just like that. I'm going to take more of this barrier off. Just peel it back a little bit. Just use a utility knife and just slice this. Going back together it should stick to itself. All right, so that's peeled back enough so that we can work in there. Now I'm going to take these Torx bolts out. I'm going to use a T30 and a extension and a ratchet. Get those all free. You can take them out by hand.
All right, so to get this cable off, just pull the latch out a little bit. You can grab the cable. Use a little screwdriver in here, pry it out a little bit, just like that. All right, and then you're going to twist the cable down. Come down here and we'll pull it out just like that. That's how you get the cable out.
To reinstall this cable, I'm going to come in from down here. It'll make it easier. Let's slide this in like that. Then we'll slide this part of the cable. Make sure you go on this side of the wire, feed it through here. With that still in place down below, go and I'll slide it onto the same spot that it was right there. Then we can reinstall the latch. I'll line the latch up, get the bolt started, and get the other ones started. Just snug those up. All right, I'm going to install this handle. Just have this in the lock position. Slide that down there, line this part up in the back and push it straight down like that and we'll check. Make sure that operates properly, and it seems to be working, so we'll slide it in over here and then press it on just like that.
All right, now I'm going to check the latch before we put it all back together. Take a straight screwdriver. We'll check it from the outside first. Yup, that's working properly. Make sure it's unlocked. Then we'll check it from the inside and that works. Then we'll check the lock. Now it's locked and that's working. Now we'll check the lock from the outside and that's working properly. Reinstall this inner door backing. Slide that on there. I'll put this trim piece retainer in. Push that through. We'll take this foam. Get it lined up. Push it on all of these clips just like that.
All right, now we're going to install this Torx screw. Slide it in with this hand. Get it lined up, and then I'll use my T20 and an extension, and I'll twist it in by hand. Once that's down just a little bit snug and that's it. I'm going to reinstall this grommet. Just slide it in right there. Before we put the door panel back on, we're just going to test it and make sure our door handle works. Click the latch down with a straight head screwdriver. Make sure the door's unlocked, and then from the outside, grab the handle and test it and it's working. I'll take the door panel. I'm going to slide it on. Start in this corner, work your way forward, and then angle it out a little bit. Make sure you pull these wiring harnesses through, so it goes here. This one goes over here, just like that.
Push it in all the way round. I'll reinstall this bolt, this one, quarter inch with the extension and a ratchet. And this, this one had a Phillips head screw. Yours may have that quarter inch bolt. Tighten this up snug. Now we're going to install these T20 Torx bit screws. There's eight of them--there's two in here. Just get them started. And there's two on the back here. Tighten this one down. And we're going to install this handle. Goes this way. Slides up there and lock it in place.
All right, so we're going to slide wiring harness through here first. I'm going to line this clip up with the door. One clip I left in the plastic trim piece and one clip I left in the door. Slide it on there and then push it that way. We can take this and connect this connector. We'll line the tab up, lock that in. I want this to go in like this and lock that in. All right, so this wiring harness comes up like this. Connect that to the lock. It's supposed to slide in over here like this and then we're going to connect the window switch back here. Just like that. Snap that in place here and over here get this lined up. Oops. Click that in and we'll take our Torx screw, get that started and then we'll snug it up. Take this little cap and push it on, snap it in place.
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