Looking at your door panel, you're gonna see your inner door handle. You wanna go ahead and remove that 10-millimeter headed bolt that's in there. Let's get the handle out of the way. Next, let's move along to getting this off right here. Let's use our plastic trim tool, and remove this master switch right here. There we are. Go ahead and pull on this tab. Set this aside. Now we need to remove our four Phillips head mounting screws. You'll have one up here, one in the center where your handle was, and then two along the bottom. Grab your panel like this, and carefully lift up. There we go. Now that that door panel's out of the way, let's continue on by getting this out of here. If you grab onto this white tab, push down, it's gonna unlock, and then you can remove the rod from it. Next, let's continue on by removing our two 10-millimeter mounting nuts. Grab onto the unit itself, draw it away from the door.
Now, let's move along to removing our vapor barrier here. I like to use a tool that looks like this, made of plastic, so I don't scratch my paint. And we're just gonna try to get rid of this butyl tape here. So now that we have the vapor barrier out of the way, what we need to do is line up our window regulator with some holes, so we can get to the mounting nuts. If you were to bring this up to approximately this point, obviously I have access to this one right here. And then if I was to look through this hole right there, I'll be able to see I have access there. And if you look up at the glass, you can see that it's not all the way up. It's about three finger lengths away, just like this. So, with that said, if for some reason yours isn't, what you could do is just reconnect this back in, put your key in the on position, put the window up to this point so you have access to both those mounting screws, and then we'll continue.
The next thing we're gonna need to do is make sure that our window's held up. The easiest way for me, at least with what I've got here, is I just have a couple suction cups, and I'm putting them right along this bottom lip. I put them on the inside and on the outside. That's gonna prevent the window from coming down. If you don't have suction cups, just use a little bit of tape, go up and over the top. Let's go ahead and take off our mounting nuts. Now, with the key in the on position still, what we wanna do is bring our window regulator so it's in the closed position, or a window down. Make sure it doesn't latch onto that window. There we are. Let's turn off the key so there's no way it can move.
Now it's gonna be time to start unbolting things. You're gonna see that you have two mounting nuts over here. You'll see one, two, three, four mounting bolts. That's what's holding in the window regulator. Let's start taking it apart. Awesome. So, now what I need to do is take a screwdriver, come through this hole, and I'm gonna lift up on that gray tab. That's the lock. Once you've done that, take the same screwdriver and push on the black tab that's in the center of the gray, and then lift up on the actual harness itself, and it should separate. At this point, we're gonna start taking this out of the door itself. There it is, friends.
Now it's gonna be time to install our brand new window regulator. Let's go ahead and line this up. Slide it right on in. Let's go ahead and start in these bolts now. Now I'm just gonna reach up in here, and I'm gonna reconnect it. Listen for a click. There it is. Lock it down, that little gray connector. So now I'm gonna line up those studs. Goes through here. Let's go ahead and start those nuts as well. Okay, now, with the key in the on position, let's go ahead and bring the regulator up, so it matches up with our window. Okay. Obviously, you wanna be careful at this point. Gonna line up those areas with the window studs. Perfect. Let's go up a tiny bit more. There we are. Now you wanna make sure that you slide it in, because if you look at it, you can see that it has a large area. Once you line it up, just slide it over, just like that. And now we're gonna put on the nuts for there.
Okay, that's bottomed out. Teeny bit more. Do the same to the other side. Nice and tight. All right, let's get these off of here. Let's test our window real quick. All the way down. All the way up. Perfect. Now let's get this vapor barrier back on here. You just wanna pay attention to this area right here, because that's where the rod is. Pull that through, line it up with approximately where you got it all from, and then, of course, make sure it's stuck back on. Let's get this bracket back on there. We want this so it's facing down. Slide that right in there. Lock it in, of course. Start on both your nuts, snug them up.
Now it's gonna be time to get our door panel back on, but before we can do that, let's get this little cover out of here. This is where that door lock's gonna be. That's gonna make it so much easier for us in the long run. Now let's put this up to the door, grab our wiring, make sure it comes through. Come up here. We wanna come high, that way there, all those hooks can fit into their corresponding holes. I'm pushing at the same time as I'm letting this come down. Okay. Okay, I'm just gonna feel along the whole way, make sure I'm sitting completely up against the door.
Let's grab this right here. Gonna go ahead and lift up on that door lock, pop this on in there. All right. Move along to our window switch here. Lock this in. Okay. Make sure it's locked in. Perfect. Now let's move along down here to putting in our handle. So now we're gonna get our handle on here. I'm just gonna get my tool ready so it's already on the handle. Put it in so it lines up with its spot. Make sure that's snug. Perfect. Now it's gonna be time to put in our mounting screws. Let's go ahead up here. Gonna use the two larger ones first. One down here. Awesome.