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Removing Door Panels to change speakers - 
I just took the passenger side door panel off to put on window tint film. I scratched the film badly and get to do this task again x 4. I recommend anybody putting window film on to learn how to take the door panel off and totally remove the lower/inside window seal to make film installation possible. The door panel is held on by 10 plastic push-pins and 3 screws (torx head). With a small screw driver, pop up the little rectangle "hatch" in the bottom of the hand-well used to pull closed the door when inside. It is "hinged" on the long side facing inside the car, so just pop the two ends up and it will rotate toward the inside of the car and reveal the 2 screws underneath. Remove these. Now similarly pop the round "hatch" in the middle of the inner door handle. It rotates downward on its "hinge". Remove the screw underneath. Next remove the triangle piece covering outside mirror mount on the front doors. It just pulls straight out from the top. It engages in the door panel at the botton via a tab into a slot, so pull it out from the top. A single "spade" fastener holds it secure. Next you need to pop the 10 pins holding the door panel secure. There are 3 spaced on each end and 4 along the bottom. I used a big plastic soup spoon utensile from the kitchen. Pry between the door panel and door at the indent (relief) about where the latch receptacle is on the door. If you get it up about 1/4 inch (I used a wood wedge for this) you can see the white "pins" and receptacles. Then place your "spoon or homemade trim tool" against the pin and pry (or twist) POP means the pin released. Move to the next pin down and do it again. DO NOT simply pull on the door panel by the edges or you risk breaking the pins and (worse yet) their mounts in the door panel. Once all 10 are "popped", rotate up the panel about 30 degrees and lift upward to disengege from the inner window seal slot that the top of the panel nests into. It should come free, but be retained by #1 the cable to the inner door handle and #2 the wire to the armrest panel. Just let it hang and you can get to the window motor, speaker or whatever. For window tint, you can then simply lift up and off the lower window seal from the door completely. Installation is the opposite of removal with the caution to MAKE SURE each pin centers in a receptacle before pushing the door panel flush. Failure to do this will prevent a flush installation and quite possible damage the door panel as the stealership did to my poor old first gen Durango.
