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Old 11-03-10, 05:20 PM
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Already looked... Console disassembly?
Where's that thread about disassembly of the center-console?
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Old 11-03-10, 05:31 PM
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What are you trying to do specifically? Remove the console that leads up to the stick shift section?
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Just removing the surround bits above the shifter...

From the vents, down (climate control + radio surround, etc.)...

WithOUT breaking ****.
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It's easy.
Remove ashtray to access the two lower retaining screws.
Remove center vent to access the two upper retaining screws.
Done.
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Old 11-03-10, 05:56 PM
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If you have an S4, be really careful when you take out the center vents. Personally, I'm about 70% failure rate for getting those out without breaking them. If you do break them, the S5 surround is much, much better.
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S5 vert. Luckily it's the latter...

Isn't one plasticky and the other more rubbery?
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Yeah, the S4 is really brittle plastic. The rubberized coating (I think it's just a coating) on the S5 gives it some flexibility before it breaks.
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Great... Bend-bend-bend-be-*kerSNAP!*

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A pillars own me. I think my failure rate on FC A Pillar removal (with a tool) is about 95%. FD A Pillars...100% success!
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LOL. That's NOT very reassuring....

All I have to do is Dremel off the heads of the damned rivets and my A-Pod comes off... That's why I was asking about surround removal.... Deep-sixing the A-Pod is first, then doing my mock-up for the recessing, 3-gauge-pod, at the idiot tray.

We got anyone, in our local employ that I can send some tri-axis cad files to, to try and get some poly-forms made?
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