ssjoeboe9

Hey pussies, here is your personal guide (with pictures) to help you rip out your trim without breaking it so you can paint it/wrap it/ or replace it all together.

Let's begin

Let's start with something you know very well. Opening your glove box ( which no one actually uses for gloves, I think it should be called gun safe, trojan dispenser, bob marley box, or something to that nature)

Cool, you did it fucker! This is the easiest one. Now take two hands and grasp underneath the trim and pull straight outward toward your body. Like this...


Hahaha damn, you're feeling confident now aren't you! Go get your screw driver! I'll wait here! Take out this screw! You have to turn it left....


Now the scariest part of the removal happens here!!!! Don't shit your panties, but you are going to take two hands and pull straight up on the door to your center console! I know you feel like you have HULK strength right now, but you aren't going to break it! Just pull straight up and tell yourself ssjoeboe9 is the shit and wouldn't let you fuck up your car!




PWNED!!!! Go ahead and say fuck you fucking trim piece, I owned your ass! Time to get your screw driver out again, and take these 2 screws out!!


Here is the driver's side



Now, all you have to do is pull up a little bit on the tab that held the screw in place, and pull outward at the same time. Do the same thing to the driver side! AND NO, there is only ONE screw holding the driver side center piece in place. It'll look like this after you remove it!





See this shit was easier than you thought!! Open up your change holder on the driver side and remove that little piece of shit screw!



Now just pull down the plastic covering, you can grab underneath and pull straight down, you don't need to pull it all the way out (what a relief, I hate when you have to pull it out completely!)


Now you have the leverage to pull out your small trim piece, grab underneath and use some of the HULK strength you had earlier!






That's it brahh... you can officially rip apart your $30,000 + Acura without breaking it!

PyroDave

stop tryin to copy me and mamke a DIY you pansy! you'll never get into the seemescrewyou2 crew

ssjoeboe9

haha just cause you have 1 bumper removal doesn't mean shit mayne!

I think this is my 4th DIY... get on my level.

Also, I ripped off my CF wrap cause I was having problems so I was gunna take it apart anyways and thought I would help the community out. Next DIY is roof spoiler.. I hope lol

PyroDave

please refer to it as whale jizz until it can be reasonable mistaked for a crappy roof spoiler with minimal light in the room

ssjoeboe9

It looks like a shitty spoiler at the moment, with one side HARD! My roommates haven't been too happy with my recent "smelly" activities occurring at the apartment. Hopefully after everything is glassed I will be able to use some body filler and make it look perfect. We will see how it turns out. To stay on topic... this is my interior trim removal thread. Please move all other shitty comments to my development thread!

Euronoob

Oh sweet!! Going to refer to here now when I need to remove my trim. Great write up, thanks!

savclaude

this is awesome

ssjoeboe9

No problemo guys!!

If you got any question's post em here. OR if you need inspiration I can find a quote for you!

ed_423

ed_423

btw joe, you have a shit load of quarters in that "not an astray" area. i used to have some, but not nearly as many!


and awesome, next up, remove cup holder area and make a cup holder led illumination!

ssjoeboe9

That's cause I'm a FAT FUCK, and don't bring lunch to work and roll through taco bell ordering locos tacos!!

WTF?! Cup holder LED?! are you serious?! What fucking color bro?! Throw up some photos and I'll make it look legit!

Mr. NC

Cool Story/Thread/DIY Bro

drivedata

here's another view sans surgical gloves & hairy arms

ssjoeboe9

Nice, I'll accept this post on my thread since people might be concerned with the differences in M/T and Auto. Who wants to post steering wheel trim removal??

ed_423

whoa. double DIY.

and nah joe i probably wont tackle it lol. too much of a hassle..it'd definitely look cool though...

mrstak

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i like drivedata's DIY info better.

it doesn't call me a fucking pussy all the time. but i do like the hulk strength part of your DIY

nice DIY joe!

ssjoeboe9

Well I figured a normal DIY was boring. Plus I always felt more confident when I came to a difficult part of the DIY and someone has already said don't worry, it'll feel like you are going to break it, but you wont. But we have ALLLL been at a point during a DIY and we say to ourselves " Why does it not say this part will be hard? Why does it show one picture and its removed? Is it supposed to bend this far back? Was the snap supposed to happen?" So I figured I would walk you through it as if I was standing over your shoulder saying, yeah brooo it's supposed to be like that.

opboarding

Screw that, my first instinct when something doesnt come apart is to pull harder. This is how one of the plastic screw holder things holding my door arm rest in place broke. Dont worry though, I mashed it back into place and it looks good as new!

PyroDave

yea i agree, thats why i tried to make mine kinda fun too, and included the stuff about you thinking it'll break

Grigio09

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lol I WOULD destroy my tsx is i have to DIY this

drivedata

lol @ stak's comments

but srsly good look to joe for putting the diy up there. it is always 100% moar better when you don't feel like christopher columbus discovering america when doing the diy's.

ssjoeboe9

My skillz at deciphering drunken text messages are pretty good. I'm guessing you meant to say this " lol I WOULD destroy my tsx if I have to do this DIY."

But no you won't if you follow my instructions, I promise!

TSXKid2010

Yo, anyone got the part number for the first bar you pull out? LOL sorry off topic.

ssjoeboe9

here man best website, bookmark this

http://www.acurapartswarehouse.com/P...olorLabelID=-1

Stylinhonda

Thanks for pointing me in this direction! My wife has already scratched up her interior on her SE a bit. Looking to wrap the center with CF around the cup holders, shifter, coin etc.

Is it hard to wrap the dip to the left of the shifter under the e-brake? First time using a CF Wrap.

ssjoeboe9

Yes, CF wrap is difficult to work with. I would practice before you start. Patience is key, be sure to wrap in all the same direction.Always cut bigger than what you think you need. Those are my tips. CF vinyl I give about a 6 out of 10 on hardness level, and about a 7.5 out of 10 for achieving exactly what you want without messing up level.

Stylinhonda

Got the main part done, looks great. Now for the ash tray/change holder thing and the lighter. Is their only one screw that needs to be taken out to remove that? Or is it the trim around it and the screw?

blutsx

Got to this from your thread. Was bored and had a can of plasti-dip in the garage.

ed_423

tried that with my emblem, didn't look too nice tho.

but you did a better job than i did haha

ssjoeboe9

Dude sweet! Glad I could help you guys out!!

hjahmad

I dropped gift card into the slot on the right side of the parking brake.
would i be able to just lift the door of the cup holder to get to it? or would i need to take the other trim off first?

ssjoeboe9

You will be good to go man. No need to take the trim off. Good luck with it, if you are in there already might as well install some led footwell lights and hook up the wires to the center.

Olegator

Where can I get that Fly audio gps system? Search revealed them only available for is250s...

BaoZZeR

I think you have to search for Honda Spirior. The units that I see everyone have has the Honda logo on it and I don't really like it.

I don't know if you can trust this website but I like the layout on this unit a lot more. Do it for the forum brave one!
http://www.cargpsnavi.com/honda-spir...va8ika3grjt284

Olegator

actually, this one rons CE5.0 and 400hz processor, it is slower than the other one, which is 600Hz and runs CE6.0

BaoZZeR

Like these aftermarket systems weren't slow enough lol

esco24

Thanks for the DIY guys really appreciate it made my life a lot easier!!!

ssjoeboe9

no problem!!!!!!!!!!

bagwell

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nice deal

opboarding

^ I want so badly.