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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet. Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing or maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20-plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts, installed correctly, that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video, we're installing an exterior door handle on a 2000 to 2005 Chevy Impala. Tools needed for this job are a Philips screwdriver, Torx screwdriver number 27 size, door panel clip tool or putty knife and regular screwdriver, a rag to protect your paint, 10 millimeter socket and ratchet or wrench, and a small regular screwdriver. Okay, due to the 10 minute time limit on YouTube, we do fast forward here through the door panel removal. If you want to see this in regular speed, just search our videos for Impala door panel. It's actually fairly straightforward. It's removing four screws, pulling up the electric plate, unplugging the switches, removing two more Torx screws, and then carefully releasing the pins from the door. Then after that you can lift your panel up and off and go from there. I'll let the video finish out and take it. This video is, it's a very good, you'll definitely learn what you need to know to do your door handle. The editing might be a little choppy because it was a very difficult procedure to film due to the darkness of the location of the door handle. Now we need to remove this water shield, and then carefully pull this. You don't want to just rip it.
Okay, we're starting inside the door, opening the door handle. There's a little white clip. You want to reach up there with your index finger and knock that clip off the rod. At the bottom of that same rod is this orange clip. You want to open up this clip and release the rod from it. This is that lever that you just unclipped at the top and the bottom. You rotate it forward at the bottom and then out. I'll show you a little better what happens. That's the top that goes into the lever at the door handle. I'll use the door as kind of an example. It would go into the lever like that and lock into place. Then to pull it out, you kind of rotate it out and then pull out. To detach the rod that links the door lock down, to detach that reach inside the door with one hand and then with the other hand you rotate the lock down, and then you can pull that rod out. We're going to remove this little plug, here. What I'm going to do now is loosen up the bolts, unbolt the bolts for the door handle itself. I've got a 10 millimeter with a rather long extension to finish it. See the bolt well enough. There it goes. There it is. Push the door handle on each end.
There are a couple little tabs. We've got both rods detached. To get this handle out, you spin that, take that and there it goes. How you get this back together is take it apart. You got to take off this clip here. I'm using a little tiny screwdriver. Get underneath that locking tab and then I pull that clip off. Then this whole thing comes off. What you want to do is now put this on your rod in here. Here you can see that the lever I just removed from the door handle I've installed back onto the lock rod. I'm putting the door handle back in. It has little teeth on the bottom that lock into place. Now I've got my little clip and I'm going to reach up in here, get the lever to go on. This clip goes right on from this way, it goes on and then it slides that way. It shouldn't be too difficult. There, I got it on. Now it's clipped. My lock rod is together. Now, here's the latch rod. We'll put it up in. Then put it down in place. You can see sorry about the focus. See if it's focusing now. Here's my latch rod. It goes right in place there.
Then actually we'll do that, we'll clip that in place right after we tighten up the handle. That way we make sure it adjusts into the right spot. Put them on here. They go right in pretty much. You notice I put it on here and then I hold it upright like that. I always try and keep it as upright as I can until I get in it in the hole, then I try to work it straight and put it in. Tighten those up a little bit. Tighten that up. You're going to reach in here. Make sure you want to kind of I'm just lifting up on the rod a little bit, not hard, just enough to make sure the whole system's tight and I'm locking into place. What I'm going to do is we'll shut it here for you. Oop, now it's locked. Make sure everything works right. It looks good. You got your handle back on. Put your plug back in. Then do the door panel, and you're set. Put your harnesses back through the plastic, pull through, and then use these two screw holes as a reference point. I'm just pulling those right on where they were, and then working my way around.
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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet.
Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing or maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20-plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly: that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video, I'm going to remove and then put back on the rear door handle on this 2002 Chevy Impala. This procedure is the same for a whole bunch of different GM vehicles that use this style handle. Tools you need are a Phillips screwdriver, a T30 Torx driver, a door panel clip tool or a putty knife, and a 10mm socket with a ratchet and extension.
To start, you're going to remove three screws: a Phillips screw right behind your door handle, and then two T30 screws right down in there. We'll fast forward through removing those screws. Obviously, the top one is with a Phillips screwdriver. The T30, you'll need a T30 Torx driver. It's, basically, kind of little bit of a star bit. Once you have those screws out, then you pull this up and out. There's a little clip at the front. There's a connector, I'm just grabbing my screwdriver and pushing in on a little tab with the screwdriver, prying a little bit and pulling at the same time. You can see there's a little tab you have to push on. Once that trim's removed, there are two more T30 screws right underneath. We'll fast forward through removing those again. Now, remove the little rear trim piece right up here. It just has a one clip on it. Just pull it, give a good tug. It pulls free. Now use either a door panel clip tool or I'm just using a putty knife. Basically, you just kind of slide it until you slide up against something, which is the pin. Then, give it a little tug. You can hear it snap a little bit. Slide it back. Find the next pin, give it a tug. Find the next pin, give it a tug. You could see, it's actually the first time this panel has ever been off so it does take a little bit of work, and force. Slide the knife or tool up again. Against the pin, good tug, and, eventually, you can kind of work your fingers underneath and pull. I reposition here, trying to release a couple of these other pins in the back of the door panel here. Give it a tug and it comes free. It's off. Now, you're going to want to pull back your insulation. It's fairly easy. It is stuck on there with some pretty heavy duty adhesive. Pull very lightly. You don't want to tear this and what you can do eventually is you pull it down. I'm just going to take my putty knife and just work it on to the adhesive, basically cut the adhesive and pull it down.
Now you can remove this plug right here. You'll see that my shield is puledl down. You don't have to pull it down that quick that far. I did do this for a couple of different videos that I did. Inside the door, there's an orange clip here. What you want to do is just, basically, reach in, take it out, and then take your latch rod out. There are two 10mm bolts holding the handle on. One is right there through that hole, and one right there through this rear hole, kind of hard to see. Get the right light in there. There it is. You'll need a 10mm socket and a ratchet and an extension, what you'll see be used here. Speed it up a little bit. With those bolts out, with one hand, I'm reaching in to the door, pushing up on the inside of the door handle and with the other hand, obviously, kind of pulling it out. It should just pull right up and out.
For the new handle . obviously this car doesn't need a new handle, but . you will just swap this lock rod onto your new handle. Make sure it has the locking clip. Handles from 1A Auto will be black. You can paint them to match by yourself. The best way to do that is to go to an automotive paint store and they can probably match with your paint code. Put it back in. Install it into the door and push. I find it easiest to take the first, the one that's closest to the big hole where you can fit your hand, and just start that one by hand. After starting that one, then what I'll do is, I put that back bolt into my extension socket, feed it in there and then use the ratchet to tighten it up and tighten up the other one. Now go back inside the door. With that little orange clip, make sure your rod is down in place, it should be in a little groove there. Push it in and then snap the clip on to it. Last but not least, take that plug and put it back in. Snap into place.
Once you've done your project, make sure your insulation is on there well. The door panel has 2 locating pins, the green pins. They are longer than the other ones. You just locate them. Get them into the correct hole first. See I do that in the front; and then the rear, same thing. Make sure the green pin goes in the right hole. That locates the door panel, push it on. Use a little fist bump to set the pins. I'll put this trim on with a clip. I noticed that the door panel is sticking out a little too much so just a little adjustment with the palm. Now, you can go into a little fast forward here. You want to put the T30 screws in and tighten them up. Now before you put that in, just make sure that you uncover that little hole where the screw goes in. That makes it a little easier than trying to put the screw through the insulation. Then, don't drop your screw, put that in there. Okay, get that nice and tight. Then, plug in your harness. Push the bezel down in and then install those two T30 screws. You should be all set. Get them nice and tight.
We hope this video helps you out. Brought to you by www.1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. Please feel free to call us toll-free, 888-844-3393. We're the company that's here for you on the Internet and in person.
