51 22 126 Removing And Installing/Replacing Carrier For Outside Door Handle On Left Or Right Rear Door

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Necessary Preliminary Tasks:

Remove rear outside handle. Refer to 51 22 170 REMOVING AND INSTALLING/REPLACING OUTSIDE HANDLE ON LEFT OR RIGHT BACK DOOR .

Release screw (1).

Feed carrier out of guide (2) and lower at front downwards.

Fig 1: Removing Carrier From Guide

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Installation:

Make sure guides are correctly fed in.

Fig 2: View Of Guides

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Remove carrier through handle opening.

Fig 3: Removing Carrier Through Handle Opening

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

Feed fiber optics cable out of clip (1).

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

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

Feed Bowden cable out of actuating lever (4).

Remove carrier.

Fig 4: 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 5: View Of Clip On Bowden Cable

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