1999 Pontiac Grand Am Front Driver Side Exterior Door Handle TRQ DHA45895

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In this video, we'll be showing you an outside door handle replacement on this '99 Grand Am, same for any Grand Am, Alero and other GM vehicles, and generally the same for two door and four door. There might be a little difference in obviously taking the door panel apart and maybe some of the little rods and stuff like that that connect. Tools you'll need are a flat blade screwdriver, Philips screwdriver, a putty knife or a door panel clip tool, a rag to protect your paint, a 10 mm socket, ratchet and wrench and a T30 Torx Driver.

We're going to fast-forward through the door panel removal. If you want to see this real time, regular motion, just check our other videos for door panel removal, and you can see it there. It's pretty easy, pretty straight forward. You remove a couple of the trip panels, take out four screws, release the clips that are around the perimeter and then pull it up and off. Probably pick up enough from this fast motion to do it, but again if you want to see it in regular motion, check out our other videos.

Also, I do use a little fast motion throughout, just when I'm doing monotonous tasks like tightening a bolt or unscrewing a bolt or something like that, just to kind of speed things up and make sure we get as much detail, but not too much detail to keep it within the ten minutes.

We remove this water shield. You want to try and do it relatively carefully. You don't want to tear it because this is important keeping the interior of the car dry.

To replace your outside door handle, you're actually going to want to remove these three T30 screws and then there's a 10mm bolt that you can access right through here.

Okay, there's the 10mm nut, so I'm going to do that real quick. The best tool for those T30 screws is a little socket and bit. They may be tough at first. Okay, now as I pull this one out you're going to see this lock mechanism fall down a little bit. Okay, now just finishing up getting that bolt off, and now you can see the bracket and bolt that hold it in place. Okay, now inside the door, okay, there's a little clip, remove that. Okay, now release the door handle. What you want to do, there's a clip right here that pulls out. That holds your lock in. Okay so you'd swap that obviously to your new door handle. Okay as far as painting goes, our new door handles will come in black.

If you want a paint to match, go visit an auto parts store with paint department. What they can do is match your color. You just drive the car down there. They'll be able to match your color and put some paint into an air charged spray can and then you can paint it yourself.

Obviously installing is the reverse. Put it back onto the handle. Carefully push that down in. Put the top and the bottom and this goes on this way, so you've got to hold onto your door handle. Put the clip up in there. The clip actually has to go up under the springs on the door handle, so you kind of want to put it in there like that and then onto the stud. Make sure the handle is where you want it on the outside and then you want to firmly put in our latch. It's best to reach your hand back in there. Make sure the door is unlocked.

Okay, so now at this point it's just a matter of putting the door back together. We're going to go through it on this video at 5X speed. If you wanted to see this part in regular motion, you can check out our other videos and see it in regular speed.

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