51 21 125 Removing And Installing/Replacing Carrier For Left Or Right Outside Door Handle With Lock Cylinder

Necessary Preliminary Tasks: 

• Remove front outside handle. Refer to 51 21 170 REMOVING AND INSTALLING OR REPLACING OUTSIDE HANDLE FROM LEFT OR RIGHT FRONT DOOR .

Driver's side only:

• Remove door lock on front door. Refer to 51 21 090 REMOVING AND INSTALLING/REPLACING DOOR LOCK IN LEFT OR RIGHT FRONT DOOR .

Feed out Bowden cable towards bottom.

Fig 1: Removing Bowden Cable

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Installation: 

Bowden cable (1) and fibre optics cable (2) must be routed below bridge (3).

No fibre optics cable is fitted from build date 09/2004.

Fig 2: View Of Bowden Cable And Fibre Optics Cable

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Release screw (1).

Feed carrier out of guide (2).

Removing carrier:

• Turn front section of carrier downwards and lower.
• Slide front section forwards slightly and turn upwards.
• Lift out carrier.
  Fig 3: Locating Carrier Retaining Screw

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Installation: 

Make sure guides are correctly fed in.

Fig 4: View Of Guides

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Note On Installation (Driver's Side Only): 

Make sure sealing ring (1) is correctly clipped into place.

Fig 5: Locating Sealing Ring

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Protect door outer skin (e.g. cleaning cloth).

Feed fiber optics cable out of clip (1).

If necessary, withdraw Bowden cable sleeve (2) with clip (3) from retaining fixture.

Feed Bowden cable out of actuating lever (4).

Remove carrier.

Fig 6: Removing Bowden Cable From Actuating Lever

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Installation: 

Clip is on fitted on Bowden cables with blue sealing caps (1).

Position of clip on Bowden cable:

2 = small hole side.

Fig 7: View Of Clip On Bowden Cable

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