So grab under the bottom of the face plate and get your fingers in there as far as you can get them upwards behind the face plate and give it a tug. This will give you some room for the next step of popping off the ace plate. So set the parking brake, turn on your car, put foot on the brake and drop the gear shift selector into Drive. So solid in fact you might think you forgot a few screws. You will notice the top of the face plate assembly is very loose but the bottom seems the be solid. So now all that is holding on the radio face plate to the dash is 4 very substantial clips that are wedged into the silver box. Once cover is off remove the two screws holding down the face plate assembly.Īlmost in the home stretch now. But try and start at the front anyway since the back has a section that tucks under the dash and makes prying very hard. This sucker is not easy either as the best place to start releasing it is the front of it but it is so close to the windshield it's hard to get in there. Then we have to go up top to the center speaker grille and remove that to get at 2 more screws for the face plate assembly. Once that cover is off you can get to the 2 screws holding on the radio/ac faceplate assembly. So the solution is to either try and get the center clip released first (maybe difficult) or do one side then try and release the center clip. This part is the most often broken part because people (me included) remove the outer edge clips first and keep pulling and the center clip holds firm and the panel breaks. It is held on with 2 screws (that you just removed in the last step) and 5 clips and 1 guide. Once all that is out of the way the center stack cover can come off. Then remove the 2 screws for the center stack cover and the 4 screws for the Ebrake and grab handle recesses. No need to pop out the window control buttons or the trunk/traction control buttons a they come up with the trim and can be unplugged when the trim is loose. Prying up in the center area will pop the middle clips first (as they are the easiest) the harder ones are the rear ones then the really hard are the front ones. So the gear shift surround is held in with 6 clips. And also since the center stack cover has to come off a couple of the console parts have to come off to make room for the center stack cover to move outward. The gear shift surround has to come off because there are 2 screws under there for the center stack cover. With the dash appliques off we can now start focusing on the center console. Those Number are (from the outside edge in inches) For me the ones next to the hazard switch are the hardest because you cannot get behind them except with tools and risk damaging the trim above of below them. Just using your fingers from below is sufficient to pop off most of the clips (except for the ones by the hazard switch). This is where you want to focus your prying from the bottom and the top if you can get a prying instrument in there. I have marked up some measurements as to where the clips are on the trim. Once you have the knee bolster out and the glove compartment out you can get to the back of most of the applique dash trim pieces. There is a slot where to stick the blade in each cover. Just use a small flat blade to pop off the covers. Two of the outer screws are covered by covers.
Note: you may have to remove the first clip to the far right on the applique trim piece as the glove compartment has a little tab that sneaks in behind the applique trim.ħ screws total for the glove box. But you can remove the glove compartment before the trim as it will give you better access to removing the clips on the trim if the glove box is out. In the picture below I already have the applique trim removed so you can see the screws better.
#Removing radio plate evo 9 evom drivers
Then remove the drivers side knee bolster - it just pulls off with about 10 clips on the back if it. Just push it outward till the clips release. Here is an example for the passenger side. They may not be absolutely necessary but they give you better access to taking off the applique trim pieces and they are easy to remove with only 3 clips holding them in. 9C1's will be a bit different as well as 2012's 9C3's will have an airbag in the knee bolster area.įirst step is the remove the two instrument panel outer trim covers. Ok took some pictures and edited them up in hopes of helping future up graders. You think if we unclipped that thin center piece first then the outsides it would have been safer? Got to do up a little diagram of that one for future DIY folks. Only $30 to replace, sales must be good on it to keep the price so low! XC if it makes you feel any better I did my radio today and broke the same center trim piece.
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