I know this subjust was posted on renntech, but I wanted to post it here as well. I just install CF dash strips last night and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would've been. I got a lot of idea's from all the people that posted on renntech, but I thought I'd try something a little different.

For the long piece (passenger side), I removed the side vent, foam panel under the dash, air duct and the airbag. By removing the airbag, most of the screws were pretty easy to get to. I only had problems with the 2 end screws. Those were a little bit harder to get to because it's pretty tight at the ends.



As for the 2 strips on the driver side, I removed the insterment pod, side vent and the lower steering console (it kinda looks like a horseshoe). It's a little tricky, there are 2 screws under the pod and I kinda twisted it off the steering column. Once I did that the strips were easy.





The whole job took my friend and I about 1.5 hours start to finish and I didn't have to brake anything. I wanted to take some pictures of the actual install, but I forgot my camera, sorry. Here is what I used as a reference: http://www.renntech.org/forums/index...hl=vents&st=20

 

Looks very nice.

did you have to make the custom trim for the dvd nav unit?

 

No, that is the factory horseshoe. I will be upgrading to a 02+ and adding a cup holder very soon.

 

thanks but what I meant was the grey piece that is around your pioneer avic unit. Is that factory?

I want to add a navigation too and I want to be able to make it look as clean as that.

 

It's actually flat black, but yes it's a custom piece. My buddy is a auto installer and he has a lot of stero install kits laying around, so I just found one that fits. If you going to go with the clean look, I would upgrade to 02'+ horseshoe and still the cup holder (if you don't already have one). With the cupholder the gaps at the top and bottom the of the nav get a lot smaller. That's what I plan on doing in a couple of weeks.

 

Thanks for the info. I may as well do the cupholder upgrade since I have no cupholder at all.

 

just another option: http://www.ultimatecupholders.com/containers.html

 

This is the post I have been looking for because it appears you have no glove box! Thank you so much for the info. So you didn't you have to remove the middle horseshoe console trim to remove the long strip? It kind of looks like the long strip goes up underneath the horseshoe trim and I read some forums that mentioned doing this. The less I have to do the better!

 

There is a kit on ebay for the radio. You get that radio trim piece,the kit to move the ac to the bottom and the wire harness for like $160

 

ok - i'm getting tempted...... how involved is removing the airbag? do i need to do clever things to stop it exploding on me?

 

I just did it and it's pretty easy. You want to disconnect the battery first. It's more work if you have a glove box and if so you will need to remove it along with the side passenger air vent. Remove the black foam piece under the glove box. Disconnect the vent section that plugs into the passenger air vent and is located under the dash. The other end of this vent section will also need to be pulled out at it's connection point. Now you have access to the two long blue bolts that connects the air bag unit to the dash frame. Once the two bolts are out you can pull the air bag out by pulling on the front dash section of the unit. While pulling out disconnect the yellow wire harness from the left side of the air bag unit. The harness pulls straight out with a good pull. There's some pics in this link that will give you some visuals. https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...val-guide.html