interior help!
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interior help! hi im trying to remove those like plastic panels in the back seats.. were the speakers go and they kinda have like an arm rest made into them.. but i cannot remove those lil hooks.. most other cars just have screws that u remove but i couldnt find any on these. can any one help?
Originally Posted by badassmurf
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As for removing the panels... pry something between the plastic panel and the car itself (where the door closes) and that will make a nice starting point for you. You may have to remove screws just below your door, and removing the seats wouldn't hurt either.
Aight this is how you do it...
Take a large screw driver, and pry at that square with the little notch in it. The hanger hook is like a drywall anchor, where the action of the screw being screwed into the anchor makes the anchor buldge out and hold in place. In this case, that square with the notch in it towards the bottom of the hook is the screw, and the hook itself is the anchor. The farther you can get that square out, the more the buldge gets smaller. It's hard to do, and truthfully when I did it I just took the biggest flatblade I could find with the longest handle, and I just pried the f***er off. Once the hook is off, there's a screw at the bottom along the bottom, right behind the front seats. Unscrew that, and pull the piece out from the kick panel. Once that's free, start pulling.. it's velcro'd in for the most part.
Take a large screw driver, and pry at that square with the little notch in it. The hanger hook is like a drywall anchor, where the action of the screw being screwed into the anchor makes the anchor buldge out and hold in place. In this case, that square with the notch in it towards the bottom of the hook is the screw, and the hook itself is the anchor. The farther you can get that square out, the more the buldge gets smaller. It's hard to do, and truthfully when I did it I just took the biggest flatblade I could find with the longest handle, and I just pried the f***er off. Once the hook is off, there's a screw at the bottom along the bottom, right behind the front seats. Unscrew that, and pull the piece out from the kick panel. Once that's free, start pulling.. it's velcro'd in for the most part.
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Verdad Gallardo pry at the hooks, you might ding it up a little but it'll come out. Reread what I said in my previous post, it's like a drywall anchor type of scheme, the farther in that square at the bottom of the hook is, the more bulged out the "anchor" is, so you want to pry that square as much as possible away from the hook.
