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So I want to keep this as a rolling log of questions/hiccups. I have seen some videos on the removal and references to a really good DIY thread on another forum that appears to no longer be available.
I started removing mine last night and plan to take my sweet time over the next week and a half or so as I really don't drive the car much any more.
So far i've got the sun visors, front light board, and rear dome assemblies out... questions that I've formed thus far are below. Any additional tips/tricks are more than welcome!
1. both of my sun visor control plugs (coming thru the sun visor arm) were clipped in to the headliner. It was a pain to get them unclipped. I had to snake my middle finger thru the light hole and push it from the back while pulling on the cables towards the windshield... Not sure how plugging those back in is going to go, but will cross that bridge later.
2. the sun visor vanity lights were clipped in to a metal ring. How is that ring held to the fabric/headliner? Is that simply glued in place too and will be pretty easy to pull out and put back on or should I look at replacing those with clean ones? Haven't tried pulling from the headliner but they are pretty thin metal and i could see them getting chewed up pretty easily.
EDIT: answered below with very helpful photo.
3. The front center light console thing. I have unclipped the wires for the sun roof dial/lights and removed that. But the main "housing" will not budge. I plan to leave it in until the headliner is out to see if i can spot where the other clips/screws are. But if anyone has any tips on getting that removed I'd be all ears. Was struggling to find anything last night.
EDIT: answered below. I failed to remove the sunglass holder tray that exposed 2 final screws.
I started removing mine last night and plan to take my sweet time over the next week and a half or so as I really don't drive the car much any more.
So far i've got the sun visors, front light board, and rear dome assemblies out... questions that I've formed thus far are below. Any additional tips/tricks are more than welcome!
1. both of my sun visor control plugs (coming thru the sun visor arm) were clipped in to the headliner. It was a pain to get them unclipped. I had to snake my middle finger thru the light hole and push it from the back while pulling on the cables towards the windshield... Not sure how plugging those back in is going to go, but will cross that bridge later.
2. the sun visor vanity lights were clipped in to a metal ring. How is that ring held to the fabric/headliner? Is that simply glued in place too and will be pretty easy to pull out and put back on or should I look at replacing those with clean ones? Haven't tried pulling from the headliner but they are pretty thin metal and i could see them getting chewed up pretty easily.
EDIT: answered below with very helpful photo.
3. The front center light console thing. I have unclipped the wires for the sun roof dial/lights and removed that. But the main "housing" will not budge. I plan to leave it in until the headliner is out to see if i can spot where the other clips/screws are. But if anyone has any tips on getting that removed I'd be all ears. Was struggling to find anything last night.
EDIT: answered below. I failed to remove the sunglass holder tray that exposed 2 final screws.
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