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Heres a quick guide on how to put a rear door card back on, properly

Firstly, check you have all the parts..... The top two parts are so absolutely fundamental to your interior door handle mechanism that you dont want to even think about starting it you have misplaced one of these... the other items are listed in the order you would install them:

3 screws across the top of the top of the door under the wood trim
1 8mm bolt under the door grab handle
2 small retaining screws to hold the card back at the top corners
2 screws to hold the window switch trim in place




Plus, your door card clips.... costing pennies and making all the difference - 8 for a rear door, 9 for a front door:



Here is the front view of my door card. The eagle eyed will spot the blinds in the top part, and although it is hard to spot, this is a full leather door card so the double stiching runs the whole lenght of the card in the middle from left to right....




and on the reverse, I've marked the 8 locations for the door card clips. just pop them old (likely broken) ones out, and slide in the spanky new ones.... You will also have to remove the reciprical broken parts still left in the door. They will be old and brittle but will smash out. Try not to push inside the door unless you can help it, and if they do go in, fish around in there to get them out again - you dont want a rattle !



Once ready to fit, we start with the wiring. on a facelift card like this we need to wire in the puddle lights, rear red visibility light, pop the cables through towards the grab handle for the electric window switch, hook up the speaker and remember the tiny connector for the illumination on the door handle... Note also only one speaker to connect here as we have Bose. With non-bose, you also have a tweeter in the rear doors... I know, its odd, I didnt design it... !

Note the old floor mat on the floor to protect the card, use some old carpet / rags etc just to stop it getting scuffed as there is no easy way to do this without putting it down on the floor several times.....

Note I've also managed to get a bit more fabric tape in there - just to replace old worn duct tape which has come off, to keep the wires secure inside the door...



You then need to connect up the door handle cable which is a tricky two handed job. The platic C shaped semi-circle goes inside the metal semi-circle of the door handle pull mechanism and the door pull cable slides into that and clicks in. The metal clip is used to keep it in place and stop it falling out. I have no photo as I have no spare hands, but I'm guessing if you're putting a card back on, you took one off so have half an idea what I'm talking about !

Once thats on, the card can be put on - Start at the top by locating the door locking pin into hole and then hook the whole card over the top of door and hang it down. You will then be able to manipulate it into postion above the door cars clips and start to push/bang it gently into place. The clips will snap into position and hold it nice and tight

Once that is done, you can put in the 3 big crosshead screws at the top:



and then the small screw to the rear:



and the other small screw to the front:



and finally the 8mm bolt through the grab handle region and you're done.

The original wood trim just clips in over the top of the 3 big screws, and the door handle will push in to place after connecting the window switches up.

Then the grab handle has a small section underneath with pushes up to mate into place....

Job done...