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Removing A-pillar interior panel

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#1 ·
Hi Guys,
Can anyone advice the best and easiest way to remove the driver side A-pillar interior cover? I need to wire my bluetooth microphone inside it..but dang the cover is held in pretty tight.

Thanks
 
#6 ·
Yup, start on the top end closer to the B-pillar and start carefully snapping off the top. The top part is held on by a plastic barb molded into it that snaps into the top end of the B-pillar panel.

Remember that the A-pillar panel curves sharply around the door opening, so there are three snaps at the top, middle and bottom (the inside has these flat plastic barbs on which metal clips are connected...these clips snap into slots on the car's interior frame), so pull from the windscreen end (as if you're trying to fold it out towards you) and when they're all out, pull the whole panel out the door, towards you and slightly up (with the door open of course) because there's a part at the bottom that slides down the side of the dashboard about a half inch.

You can stand outside the car and look at it through the windscreen if u can't see what you're folding.

Don't worry if you pull the panel and the metal clips are atill in the slots, just pop 'em out with a needle nose pliers and snap 'em back onto the plastic panel before re-installation (u risk bending/breaking them if you try to fit the plastic barbs in while the clips are still in the slots).

Hope this helps.