First post here,
I bought a 2000 gs300 for my daughter nice car but has the little things that go wrong,
None of the door locks worked with the remote so from the good advice from this site I picked up the 4 pack of motors on E bay, The fronts went smooth from the U Tube video but I was only able to find a write up for the backs, from the write up they say to take the door handle out, the back bolt was a PITA! So after I got it out and was looking at it it looks like there is no need to take the door handle off, There is a curved groove that runs along the bottom of the door handle and I just lined it up with the actuator pulled the door handle up and it slid right in, doing the other side it works when removing it.
Sorry if this is a known fact but from the write ups I was working from it wasn't mentioned.

Thanks againg for such a great forum with much knowledge.

Bill

 

My friend has this problem on his JZS161 aristo, and we are going to fix it soon, so thanks for the info!

 

I found this out by accident. I was trying to following directions I saw in the video and was having a problem removing the rear handle. I pull up on the handle and the cable/actuator released itself. No need to take the handle off.