Keyhole section of exterior door handle is quite long.ĭepending where exactly the plastic of your handle broke and if the small broken piece is still lodged in there, you may not need to do this step to access a second Torx screw on the inner side of the front-wards end of the door handle. Slide out keyhole section of the exterior door handle. It may take some wiggling to get it to slide out. The keyhole section of the exterior door handle will now be loose and can be pulled out. You do not need to fully remove this and you don't need to worry about dropping it, since it only loosens so far and then is somehow held in place. Loosen brass coloured Torx screw in rear edge of door (T30 size Torx if your screwdrivers are labelled by size). Result of removing black circular plastic cover, giving access to a Torx screw which holds the exterior key mechanism in place (the part of the exterior door handle that doesn't move when you pull the handle). I used the blunt end of a nail file to get under it, which hopefully scratched the paint less than a flat screwdriver would have. Remove black circular plastic cover on rear edge of door. Two out of my eight white plastic clips broke at their attachment to the door panel rather than popping out of their holes : - ( Keep pulling outwards, keeping top edge in place until last, then lift upwards. There are eight white plastic clips around three edges (left, right, bottom) of the door panel, which will pop and then the panel can be lifted upwards to unhook from the top edge. Pull interior door panel out from anywhere you can get a grip along the bottom edge. Result after removing plastic triangle near side-view mirror. Once the white plastic clip pops out of its metal hole, the plastic triangle tips outwards at the top and can then be lifted up. If you have any strong plastic tool that you can pry with, it may scratch the paint less than using a flat screwdriver, as I did : - ( Pry (from top) triangular plastic panel on interior where side-view mirror is. Remove window crank handle and white plastic washer. More likely it will spring off into the bushes or fall down into the door side pocket : - ( If you're lucky you can just grab the C-clip once the rag gets it most of the way out. Keeping sideways tension on the rag with both hands, give it more counter-clockwise rotation (rolling-down-the-window direction), and since the window is already at the bottom, the crank won't rotate any more, but the rag will hook on the C-clip and pop it off of the spindle. Move the rag back and forth while pulling with two hands on either side of the spindle until rag is well wedged in. Roll window all the way down, and wedge a rag between the black manual window crank handle and the white plastic washer that separates the handle from the door panel. Result after door pull insert was removed Remove Phillips (star) screw in bottom of interior door pull and lift plastic door pull insert Remove Phillips (star) screw behind interior door handle Pry out plastic screw cover behind interior door handle (I was unable to do this with a flat screwdriver as it was too blunt, and even with other tools was still unable to do it cleanly without scratching and mangling the plastic : - ( Handle should hinge and remain attached towards front of car (right side of photo) and only travel at the rear-wards end of the handle (left side of photo). ![]() (should also be very applicable driver side if you can mirror-image the photos in your mind), and to Toyota Matrix, and to other years, probably 2003 to 2008 are similarĮnough, from what I've read, and to power window versions if you can guess a little at those steps)īroken exterior front passenger side door handle. ![]() Pontiac Vibe 2004 exterior front passenger side door handle replacement, including manual window crank removal Photos and captions showing how to replaceĪn exterior front passenger side door handle on a 2004 Pontiac Vibe with manual (non-power) window crank
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