Replace the passenger side window switch - 2006 LR3

[usadventureracing]

My front passenger side window switch is broken, I have a replacement but was wondering if I need to take the door panel off to pop the old one out. Tried searching Youtube but had no luck. Has anyone had to do this?

 

[Gethigh]

Experience that but didn't fix it myself... My geek friend did... Will ask him and get back to you,

 

[ar4me]

On an LR4 it looks like the door card has to come out: https://landroverforums.com/forum/lr4-38/2010-lr4-5-0l-v8-power-window-switch-69243/ The LR3 is likely the same, but don't know for a fact.

 

[Abran]

You can pry it out with the door panel in place but there is almost not enough slack in the harness to release the connectors and sometimes the small spring clips on the switch fall off into the panel. Worth trying before pulling the panel though.

 

[DiscoNels]

I successfully changed out the drivers side w/o taking off the door panel, but as Abran stated their isn't much slack in the wiring, and I needed three hands to unplug and re-plug the connector. Worth a try, nothing to lose.

 

[usadventureracing]

Thank you, I will try it this weekend.

 

[usadventureracing]

Replaced, door panel did not have to come off, took about 2 mins.

 

[Mell]

Replaced, door panel did not have to come off, took about 2 mins.

I know it's been a while since you did this but I just found your thread. how did you pop out the old one?

 

[krick3tt]

I removed the door panel to replace my mirror. There is a vid on the Atlantic British site that explains it all. They did it to exchange the stock mirror with a longer one to use when pulling a trailer.
Not really difficult, just a bit time consuming. I have done it several times, once to diagnose the problem and second time to figure it out and know what to get and the third time to replace the mirror.
The controls are easy to locate and replace if you are talking about a simple switch.