Centre console trim removal

[sawood12]

I've got a new sunroof switch to install. How do you remove the centre console trim panel. I can see two screws behind the ashtray, and two in the top corners when you remove the oddments cubby hole. I'm assuming that there are probably another two behind the stereo as well? I would like to confirm before I remove the stereo and the stereo cage.

Once the screws are removed does the panel simply lift off?

Cheers.

 

[Neil Haughey]

ISTR to remove the centre console you only need to undo the 2 bolts on each side and the 2 inside the cassette holder, and perhaps as on my 968 there was also a bolt holding down the tiptronic shifter. I followed the description in the workshop manual only to find it asks you to remove screws which don't connect to anything other then the centre console itself. Once the whole thing is loose it can be pulled back a bit and flipped right up to get access to everything underneath.

 

[poprock]

There are clear instructions & photos partway down in the Clark's Garage instructions for dash removal. Link here.

It is just the four screws (two under the ashtray and two under the DIN tray pocket), then you can pull the bottom part of the centre console free. You generally can't actually remove it totally, but can twist it round to get access to the switches etc. As the Clark's Garage guide says, be careful with the little tabs holding switches in"”they break easily.