Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
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Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
Hi All,
Trying to get the front carpets out of our Westie, which are one piece (across the middle).
It has the (optional?) heater tunnel taking heat to the rear (which is on top of the carpet).... have removed screws holding it in place but the heater centre panel that it 'hooks' under is preventing it sliding back - and can't find any info on how to remove it.
As pic shows, the floor heater unit/cowl/thingy ideally needs to be lifted more or less straight up after a little backward shuffle, otherwise the handbrake is in the way too
It's an '85 LHD 1.6td, so has the little panel with the cold start handle... overlaps the pesky panel in question an inch or so.
All help greatly appreciated!
John
Trying to get the front carpets out of our Westie, which are one piece (across the middle).
It has the (optional?) heater tunnel taking heat to the rear (which is on top of the carpet).... have removed screws holding it in place but the heater centre panel that it 'hooks' under is preventing it sliding back - and can't find any info on how to remove it.
As pic shows, the floor heater unit/cowl/thingy ideally needs to be lifted more or less straight up after a little backward shuffle, otherwise the handbrake is in the way too
It's an '85 LHD 1.6td, so has the little panel with the cold start handle... overlaps the pesky panel in question an inch or so.
All help greatly appreciated!
John
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
If you remove the L shaped cold starting aid cover, then you may press the lower side of the metal dash inside enough to slide the center panel out.
If it not works than you have to remove the whole dash panel.
If it not works than you have to remove the whole dash panel.
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
ZsZ wrote:If you remove the L shaped cold starting aid cover, then you may press the lower side of the metal dash inside enough to slide the center panel out.
If it not works than you have to remove the whole dash panel.
Thanks ZsZ, it worked. Now it's off I can see it's more of a pull and slide out, as opposed to a good yank with my eyes shut (oo er missus )
Thanks again,
John
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
Hi, I would like to resurrect this thread as I'm attempting to remove my centre panel and to be honest I don't quite follow the instructions given about 'sliding' it out? (mine doesn't have the cold start lever).
Can anyone be more specific? Which way does it slide? I've given it a good yank in all directions and it doesn't want to budge!
Can anyone be more specific? Which way does it slide? I've given it a good yank in all directions and it doesn't want to budge!
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
Horizontally towards the back of the van.
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
it will move is makes a bit of a noise as in plastic creaking and I was scared it was going to break,but I have removed it plenty of times, someone posted a mod that I thought was really handy,it was to cut down a plastic door pocket horizontally along it's full length and clean it up and I screwed/bonded onto the dash panel and you have a nifty little storage space for for odd's and sod's,I keep the remote control for my subwoofer there as I filed a half moon slot in it,cut a suitable size grommet in half and routed the cable up behind the panel and exit out of the half moon hole so it looks pretty tidy,ok for tissues etc
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
nicq wrote:Horizontally towards the back of the van.
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
nicq wrote:
''Horizontally towards the back of the van.''
Ok thanks. So I'm just grabbing it at either side and giving it a good pull backwards?
''Horizontally towards the back of the van.''
Ok thanks. So I'm just grabbing it at either side and giving it a good pull backwards?
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
Yes (pull it from about 1/4 from the top s that is roughly where the runners it slides on are, so you are pulling it "in line" with the sliding bits, not at an angle)
Usually they are a bit stiff on their plastic runners, but the one on our Tin-Top keeps sliding backwards by itself This is probably because I have actually had it off so many times, all that stiffness has disappeared. If you want it to slide back and forth easier in the future, try smearing Vaseline on the relevant parts.
Usually they are a bit stiff on their plastic runners, but the one on our Tin-Top keeps sliding backwards by itself This is probably because I have actually had it off so many times, all that stiffness has disappeared. If you want it to slide back and forth easier in the future, try smearing Vaseline on the relevant parts.
Last edited by ghost123uk on 16 Apr 2014, 07:37, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
Thanks for all your help
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
Posts crossed then as I was editing my last one, have a look at the edited post re where to pull.
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
ok thanks! I'll give it a go armed with this info, cheers!
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Re: Help request: removal of dash lower centre panel
ghost123uk wrote:Yes (pull it from about 1/4 from the top s that is roughly where the runners it slides on are, so you are pulling it "in line" with the sliding bits, not at an angle)
This is probably because I have actually had it off so many times, all that stiffness has disappeared. If you want it to slide back and forth easier in the future, try smearing Vaseline on the relevant parts.
OK I admit its childish but that made me laugh! Its all a bit Carry On!!!
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