Today we have a 2010 Ford Fusion.
Customer has some issues opening the inner
door handle.
So we're going to be replacing the inner door
handle.
We did notice it seems to be pretty common
on these, that when they don't work, that
if you hold the handle just a little bit up,
the lock becomes the actual mechanism to open
it.
So it still does work, and I don't know why
that it ends up being like that every time,
but that seems to be something that we keep
seeing.
So we're going to go ahead and remove the
door panel to get to this handle.
We have a few Torx, T20, bits around the edge,
and we have one 7mm here, and then we have
the cover with another bolt there.
So we'll go ahead and start removing some
trim paneling.
We have a 7mm here.
So 
now we just want to pull the door panel straight
back.
This top rail is the hard one here.
These were the clips that we were trying to
overcome.
We started at the bottom, making our way up.
We did lose a clip...
Oh, that's where the screw is.
So we did not lose any clips.
Here we can see...
Yeah it definitely is broken there.
So it does break off the actuator... the spring.
That is why it still pulls the cable.
The cable is attached to the lock mechanism
for the full swing.
We have a 5/16 bolt here, holding the handle
on.
To remove it, you just pop it out of the mount.
There's our old, failed interior handle.
We have another handle, this one we got from
Auto Parts Direct To You.
Everything looks good there.
We'll go ahead and put the barrel back in.
Then we reattach back into the mount.
Looks like we have a little bit of leeway
on how that handle bolts up.
We can tighten this up once we get the door
panel in place, handle positioned correctly,
then we can tighten that bolt up.
Now we're ready to reinstall the door panel.
Putting the new door panel... or reinstalling
the door panel, make sure we pull all our
wires that we need up.
We're going to ... we have them all in position.
We'll go ahead and push the top in first.
Work our way around the perimeter.
We'll go ahead and give it our final tighten.
Put our trim cover back on.
Now we're going to put our trim back on.
We have the three torx.
We had three different sizes.
Two longer, and one shorter.
The longer ones are going to go here and here.
The shorter one, we're going to use here,
and then we have our 7mm back into the armrest.
Hook the clip, and go in with the front first
and then down with the back.
So we're in, and now clipped.
We'll go ahead and put the bolt back in.
So we have one going down, and two going side
ways.
That match our...
So we'll put the bottom in first.
Now we have our installed door handle.
There we have it.
