Help required with interior trim!

[Rareair]

The only method of removing those 3 strips would be to remove the entire dash from the car.

[Christian H]

Are you sure about that Rareair ? the gent I bought them from had them removed to have carbon fiber items fitted by a guy that looks after his car,he told me it took no more then a couple of hours but did not see how it was done,the strips are un marked so I don't believe they where forced off but I can't see the dash been removed in that time.
Do you have first hand experience of this mod?

[shaman1204]

Looks like the two small pieces can be popped off. The longer one is held in by screws. Check out this thread.

[Christian H]

Cheers Shaman,I will have to register to check out that thread as I am not a member yet,might even go into my garage now and have a go at the small pieces again.

[derb]

The 3 strips are held by a total of 11 screws. I recently removed my dash for another project and painted these while everything was apart.

That renntech link posted by shaman1204 has several different ways to remove the strips- very informative. Also, well worth a small donation for access to fault codes, TSBs and the retail Porsche parts price database.

One idea that I didn't see was to remove the passenger side airbag to get at the screws. To do this you disconnect the battery, remove the foam liner above the footwell, remove the AC/heater duct (it just pulls out), remove the electrical connector to the airbag (make sure you wait a few minutes after disconnecting the battery), from under the dash remove two bolts and the airbag can be pulled out. You should be able to get to most of the screws for the long strip.

Good luck,
mike

[Christian H]

Thanks Mike that sounds much more like my kind of D.I.Y.
Thanks to all you guys,very very helpfull.

[ddb]

I replaced the three strips on my car in a couple of hours. It was a lot easier for me because I removed the vents on each end of the dash to install new ones, and had the center dash assembly and the instrument pod out to do some mods. This made access to the two smaller strips very easy.

The longest strip was a bigger pain for me. Like derb describes I removed the passenger airbag to help get access to the screws. I don't remember all of the details, but I believe I broke the long strip out of frustration before removing the airbag. It didn't matter much because I wasn't reusing the old strips.

Take your time and many breaks if you get frustrated. It will look great when you are done.

Best of luck and post some pictures when finished.

ddb