Rav4 Rear Door Wont Open Oustde Handle

If the part that the handle goes into inside the door needs replacing it takes much longer.

Rav4 rear door wont open oustde handle.

Then you can stick a tool inside the loosen the bolt and remove the cover. I have plenty of junkyard experience so breaking the door panel was not a concern. In this video i show how to open the trunk on this particular model of a toyota rav4. When i purchased the car the passenger rear door was stuck due to the plastic clip on the inside of the outside door handle breaking and the child lock being engaged on the inside.

Please subscribe to my channel for more great content. If you do and they aren t working check the fuse if that doesn t work then i believe you will have to take the inside door panel off. So my wife s 2011 rav4 rear door won t open anymore and i believe the actuator is broken. The 97 awd 4 door with manual locks manual windows.

First i assume you don t have electric door locks. I just went out and took a look at my 99 rav4 rear driver side door to see how to take the panel off if you couldn t get the door open and it looks doable. This episode was so much fun to shoot. I was able get into the door open.

Then once the handle cover is removed you slide the handle towards the cover and remove it. Once you have it opened locate the battery and replace it. Autozone has a rav4 door handle available at an affordable price. There is a cover on the side of the door that pops off.

This should fix the problem. I have the interior panel off and i was able to open the door by pushing down on the lever the one the rod from the handle pushes on to open but it only worked a couple times doing that and now the lever doesn t work. In order to open it you will squeeze on the sides of the fob to pop open the front and back.