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Old 07-07-2006, 04:39 PM
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Default POS Honda (Don't try to take dash apart unless you want to buy a new one)!

So, Nobody replied to my post looking for advice about dissembling the dash to access the car stereo. Never fear, Crutchfield promised DETAILED instructions for how to do so without breaking it. So I paid the extra $10 to get the item from them so I could get the instructions. However, in step 2, the part where they could have told me how to remove the power outlet trimpanel, it says "Pry off panel". Great. Prying off the cover leaves me with four plastic tabs broken off the cover and lodged in the tab socket in the dash. Worse yet, the broken off tabs WILL NOT come out of their sockets (which are made of cheap-a$$ plastic so they're about to break too). WTF was honda thinking by using thes un-removeable snap tabs? Dang it, WTF is wrong with a screw head showing here and there so we could actually work on these f-ing cars without breaking the crap out of them?

AARGH!

Ok thanks for letting me vent. Now anyone had success with these superman tabs and can help me? Thanks.

PS, anyone know where I can buy a new F-ing trimpanel?

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Last edited by zimbop : 07-07-2006 at 04:43 PM.
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