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Mar 5, 2003

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help!! Center Dash

i am changing my lights "blue" and i can't get my center dash out

, i did search and i only found a picture from AK that read "stick your hand behind that bar, and you will feel another bar. Push that bar up! It will pop the center dash." but i don't feel that other bar[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]has anyone else had this problem?
please help it's cold outside...............

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I don't know waht he was talkin about when he said "push the bar up". Here is how I did it. I took a flathead screw driver and just pried it from the edges very carefully.

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[hr]Originally posted by: FlyRiceRacer02
I don't know waht he was talkin about when he said "push the bar up". Here is how I did it. I took a flathead screw driver and just pried it from the edges very carefully.[hr]

LOL, thats what i have been doing!!LOL well ok i guess i will just keep doing that then[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-nono.gif[/IMG] i feel like it's going to break

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Basically there are 2 clips for each corner. Start with the left side, stick the prying tool right in the middle of the left side. Push all the way in. Slowly pull out. Some of the plastic edge may bend. Just be careful.

Work your way up and down the side until the clips on that side pop out. Do this for all sides. And you can push in the back of your CD player to help.

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if your just gonna do the ac controls pop off the **** and then stick end of knife in hle and pop out lil cirlce pop out ornage or greensh stuff and pout in blue no need to take apart dahs except to chnage cd player.. now wasnt that easy and when you put it back together the ***** only fit in one spot so you dont mix anything up...

riley
whole thing discovered accendentally when i droped mine and all three cirlces popped out.

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DON'T PRY PLEASE! Prying is bad...[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-nono.gif[/IMG] ak means that there is a metal bar(where you unskrewed the two bolts). There is also another one RIGHT ON TOP OF IT( laying on it!) push that one towards you and up. With a little [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/IMG]power it will work!

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DON'T PRY PLEASE! Prying is bad...[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-nono.gif[/IMG] ak means that there is a metal bar(where you unskrewed the two bolts). There is also another one RIGHT ON TOP OF IT( laying on it!) push that one towards you and up. With a little [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/IMG]power it will work![hr]

Prying is not bad. I did it with mine and had ZERO problems. There is no bar. Maybe because I have an after market head unit and kit I don't have the bar anymore. I dunnno. But prying is fine.

Mar 5, 2003

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Did you take out the 2 screws that are holding the center dash on..?[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]

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i broke 2 or 3 of my clips when trying to pull up on the bar but i guess that was cause the dash was coming out at an angle the bottem half came out first then when i pulled it out the top 3 clips broke ::shrugs::

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Did you take out the 2 screws that are holding the center dash on..?[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG][hr]

You have 2 screws holding the dash on?

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i broke 2 or 3 of my clips when trying to pull up on the bar but i guess that was cause the dash was coming out at an angle the bottem half came out first then when i pulled it out the top 3 clips broke ::shrugs::[hr]

that just makes it a hell of alot easier to take it off again if you want to change your head unit again. when i did mine, like two or three clips fell off and down into the dash.... ::shrugs::

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[hr]Originally posted by: rijowysock
if your just gonna do the ac controls pop off the **** and then stick end of knife in hle and pop out lil cirlce pop out ornage or greensh stuff and pout in blue no need to take apart dahs except to chnage cd player.. now wasnt that easy and when you put it back together the ***** only fit in one spot so you dont mix anything up...

riley
whole thing discovered accendentally when i droped mine and all three cirlces popped out.[hr]

Holy Crap....are you drunk??? You need to either lay off the booze or go buy a new keyboard. [IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG]

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Did you take out the 2 screws that are holding the center dash on..?[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG][hr]

You have 2 screws holding the dash on?[hr]

I HAD 2.. until i dropped one into the "abyss"... didn't you have screws hold your dash piece on... I'm talking about the 2 when you pop off the power outlet piece then look straight up an see the 2 screws...

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Read this DIY from "Get down low and you will see ...."

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Yes thank you AK... those 2 screws....

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After you take the screws out, try this. Take a useless credit card and slide in the top of the center dash. This will you give separation. Now just on the back of the credit card and the top definitely will pop out. I know it feels like you are going to bend it but you just have trust that it won't. (well hopefully not). After the top clips are out the other ones are easy. Now, just use a combination of pull of the center dash and push of the bar. This worked for me.

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Mine was a paint at first, prying, pulling pushing...Now I take it out within 10-15 seconds (good or bad lol). After the bottom two screws come out, if you end up prying it, wrap a flathead with a thin rag so you dont scratch and pieces if the screw driver slips.