Painting Trim... Need Help
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Painting Trim... Need Help
alright, i have gotten the trim piece around the HU/ac controls and the two vent pieces (i bought the optional trim kit from honda when i got the car)... i got those off and have them painted... my question is how do i get the trim ring around the manual shifter (oval piece) off, is it applied with double sided sticky tape as the trim pieces on the dash are, i don't want to break it, it looks pretty thin... and my next problem is that on the door armrests (where the window controls are) is painted silver from the factory there are no pieces that are stuck on with double sided sticky tape, the actual piece surrounding the wondow controls is painted silver... i also want to paint this, can i take that piece off, if so how? does it require removal of the door panel and then unbolting the arm rest then disassembling the armrest further? i am not painting it stock silver so its gonna look kind of funny with everything but that the same color... thanks in advance o, by the way my car is an 01' ex coupe if that matters
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Rep Power: 0 The whole panel (including trim ring) around the shifter pops off with little force. Take your shift **** off first! Then flip it over and there should be screws mounting the trim ring to the panel. to try to pull the ring itself off..I broke my 1st one!
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Rep Power: 304 ok, i tried what you said with the gear shifter trim panel, i got the rear piece off (the one that goes around the e-brake) and i am trying to pop off the piece around the gear shift but i can seem to get it off of there... i saw 2 screws down in the bottom, kind of under the piece, and i removed them,the piece still won't come out... here is what the piece i am trying to remove looks like...
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Rep Power: 0 yeah..the fronts tighter than the back. Just work around slowly with a small flathead(i use a real panel puller) and the clips will give! I think theres like 6 clips total in that piece maybe 8!
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Rep Power: 304 ok, i take it the boot comes over the shifter after disengaging the clips... also, can i paint the ring that is below the shifter that holds the boot? or will i mess the shift boot up by removing it?
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Rep Power: 0 Should be able to remove the ring by removing the small screws on the underside. The you can set the boot aside and paint the plast pieces. While you're in there you should install a Neuspeed Short Shift Kit 
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Rep Power: 304 alright, after a gruesome cussing and pulling session, i have determined that this piece also has 2 screws on the bottom of the piece that must be removed in order to get the piece out... any advice on what to use in order to unscrew them so i can actually take the above pictures piece out?
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Rep Power: 304 i cant seem to get the clips to let go either... i cant even find any clips on it, just those 2 screws... i ram a flat head screw driver all around the gap between the piece and the rest of the console...
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Rep Power: 304 ok, i edited the pic, imagine if you will, you are looking down into the hole after taking the piece off around the e-brake (i know thats not exactly what it looks like, but it's close enough) i removed the 2 screws i put in the pic... there also seems to be 2 under the piece i am trying to remove, are there 4 screws total that has to be removed to take the piece off?
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Rep Power: 0 I had to remove the entire center console to get the piece around the shifter off... the screws that hold it on are underneath the plate. There are also two screws in the back of the console on the sides and two tabs up front.
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Rep Power: 0 Originally posted by OmegaStauf
Here's a DIY on another page... this explains it well.
Here's a DIY on another page... this explains it well.
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