Repair rear latch on Toyota Sequoia

Step 4 Remove black panel

There is a large black stamped metal cover held with several 10mm hex head screws and three plastic connectors which covers the rear windshield wiper assembly, the electric window assembly and the latch assembly. Remove the stamped black cover and carefully slide it out and around the plastic retainers. This may sound confusing, but once I had the first layer of plastic panels off, I couldn't miss it. 

Note:  I will found three plastic snap retainers I had to remove to get the stamped metal cover off of the main frame of the rear hatch. I had to be very carefully to tweek the black cover with a putty knife. without breaking any of the plastic retainers. Replacement retainers are available at any auto parts store where they will be a LOT less expesive than at the Toyota parts department. In fact, the cheapest place to buy replacements is the nuts and bolts dept at Lowe's.

I then carefully tied the wire harness out of the way and after removing the black stamped metal cover, put it someplace safe so I don't step on it or lose it or something.