Before & After

[Loudpedal]

ah, I see. Thanks for the expl. jaydub.

And here I thought you were readying your car for atmospheric re-entry for the next shuttle mission to the Space Station.

[whtep19]

You have entirley too much time on your hands;)

[jaydub]

Ok guys, here is a couple more pics and some instructions.

1) Remove the front seats. There are four bolts holding them in place. Remove those and unplug the plugs underneath the seat. From this point on, DO NOT turn your car on, or the airbag light will come on and stay on. After you have removed the front seats, you have much more room to work with.


2) Remove the screws in the circled areas of picture raammat_11.jpg. The ones toward the front (where it says 'see note') are not screws, but plastic rivets. You will have to break these off, but I didn't bother to replace mine during reassembly. After you have removed those screws, get a set of needlenose pliers and grip the rubber mat in the bottom of the cubby hole, it comes right out. Under that there are two bolts which you will then remove.

3) Remove the panel where the cig. lighter is. You'll need to be very careful when prying it off, because Honda uses very soft plastic, and it will scratch and chip if you aren't careful. Once the panel pops out, unplug the cig. lighter and put that panel aside.

4) There are four screws inside the area where you removed the cig. lighter panels. Remove those and the entire console will be lose. They do snap together, but it's easy to pop them apart. Lift the rear portion off first, then the front portion will slide out.

5) To remove the dead pedal, remove the visible bolt first. After that, insert a hex key in the hole, and pull as you turn it. It'll pop right off.


6) To remove the rear seat bottom, remove the screw (circled in raammat_12.jpg). That is the only thing that holds the seat in place. Where the larger circles are shows where the seat snaps into place. Just pull upward firmly and it will snap right out.

7) Door entrance area panel removal. First, remove the bolt which holds the seatbelt into the floor area on the passenger and driver's side, then you can remove the other panels. For the passenger side, the kick panel is held on by two snap-in connectors. Pull outward and it should pop out. After that, you can remove the sill panel. it has three snap-in connectors on the inside, and four on the opposite side. Just pull gently, and it will come off. For the driver's side, it is the same way, except that you have to remove the cover on the gas door lever. You will see a place to pop it off with a flathead screwdriver, and under the cover is one philips screw. Remove that, and the cover will then come off like the passenger side did. The kick panel on the driver's side will come off the same way the passenger one did.

8) At this point, the only area where the carpet is still attached is behind the "guts" of the center console. Take a razor blade and slice where you can see that it is still connected. After that, the carpet will come right out. Toward the rear where your rearside panels are still in, you can gently pull the carpet and it will come out from behind the panel.

[1abSi]

damn nice garage to have tile floors!!!

[jaydub]

hehe it's not tile, that's just where the slabs of concrete meet in the middle of the garage. :D

[Silver7]

truely great work & DIY guide!

thanx :):p