Hey guys, tommorow I am installing my gauge overlays and need to gain access to my gauges. How do I go about doing this? What are the proper steps to taking off the dash and getting to my gauges.

I also have an HVAC overlay and Shifter overlay, so I need to remove the HVAC and radio section of the dash and the shifter plate. How do i do this? Any instructions would be really really helpful. Thanks in advance...

 

Get a socket wrench and torx bits. Pull off all the torx screws on your center console. You'll need to get a flathead screwdriver and pull off your shifter **** too. Then the plate should just pull off. For the guage cluster, you need to pull out the light **** and the bezel should pull off. There are a bunch of 7mm bolts holding in the cluster. Pull those out and it should just pull out.

 

Getting at the hvac is easy take the 3 T15 torx screws out, both bottom and the top pass side, the last is fake. pull it out pass side first towards the pass side.

The gauge cluster you'll need to remove the drivers side lower dash panel, there are 5 T30 torx screws holding it on, two covered by caps near where your knees should be, and then 3 all the way under along the bottom. after removing it you'll pull 2 7 MM bolts off for the bottom of the gauge bezel, pull on it a little bit and the clips that also hold it will pop out, then unplug the cigarette lighter, after this of course you'll need to get at the button that holds the headlight switch rod in, pull the switch **** all the way out like you have your lights on, on the bottom of the switch there is a small metal button you have to push and hold it and at the same time pull the light rod out. Now you can get the gauge dash bezel out of the way, you'll have 4 7MM bolts holding the cluster in, remove them and you can start to pull it towards yourself, you *should* be able to remove the cluster without pulling the dash pad off by pulling the tilt release and holding the wheel / column all the way down, just past its last locking point and slide the cluster out.