JDM Knee Pad Install

[chanomatik]

You should spoil yourself even more!

[FRSHunter]

With the kneepads being standard on FRS/BRZ, this mod should be much cheaper to do now. How difficult is the upgrade? Never really opened up the car door panel.

[chanomatik]

Originally Posted by FRSHunter

With the kneepads being standard on FRS/BRZ, this mod should be much cheaper to do now. How difficult is the upgrade? Never really opened up the car door panel.

Stupid easy, honestly. I've taken off the door card too many times. Plenty of videos that'll show you how without scratching anything. A smaller flathead and a Phillip's screwdriver and you're golden.

The knee pads will require a socket for removing the center console. Otherwise it's just the pulling apart that can FEEL tricky, but actually isn't tricky.

[Minovsky]

Originally Posted by Trojan_SC

So I started installing the knee pads yesterday and thought I'd show you guys how to do it and not screw up your interior (I failed a little). Scuffed up the corners of my center console and broke the old new pads. So follow this if you want to do a clean install.

First let's start with the Center dash knee pads:

To do this you have to remove the center console.


Next remove filler under the AC controls (idk what it's called, the thing with the USB/AUX ports) You can just grab it and pull (gently) or you can push it out from behind where you just removed the panels.

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For the life of god I can't remove that piece!! There's no where to grab and I pushed with so much force it still wouldn't come out

[greighn]

Try pulling downward on the top of that piece while lifting up the piece above it. The little clips on the bottom piece are holding up tight against the upper piece. That worked for me.

-Gary.

[Chaetagnath]

Anyone know the part numbers for the speaker grills and red trim speaker door knee pads?

[Kimsey47]

Originally Posted by Honeydew

For the life of god I can't remove that piece!! There's no where to grab and I pushed with so much force it still wouldn't come out

Is this going to be as easy in a BRZ with push start? I'm in the same boat where my tray will just NOT release. I was thinking that if i took my console apart that it could help???

[chanomatik]

Originally Posted by Kimsey47

Is this going to be as easy in a BRZ with push start? I'm in the same boat where my tray will just NOT release. I was thinking that if i took my console apart that it could help???

Technically it's harder because the cubby is smaller so there's less room to grab. Unfortunately it's the one piece you have to remove to continue on with anything on the console.

[chanomatik]

Originally Posted by Chaetagnath

Anyone know the part numbers for the speaker grills and red trim speaker door knee pads?

http://www.nigel-jdmparts.com/vehicl...6-speaker-door

or PM them since they're a vendor on here. I'm sure they'll tell you the direct parts if these aren't it.

[Kimsey47]

Originally Posted by chanomatik

Technically it's harder because the cubby is smaller so there's less room to grab. Unfortunately it's the one piece you have to remove to continue on with anything on the console.

Dang... I really felt like I was getting wreckless in how hard I was pulling on this guy to get it out and it wouldn't budge! Any tips?!

[chanomatik]

Originally Posted by Kimsey47

Dang... I really felt like I was getting wreckless in how hard I was pulling on this guy to get it out and it wouldn't budge! Any tips?!

I think I mentioned it before, but I'll be completely honest in saying that I cracked mine. :o/ However, you can't even see the crack unless you're staring at it. I pulled it again to install the STI push button and I still kinda struggled. It was worse because I saw the crack that I had forgot about and was worried I'd worsen it.

Try pulling more downwards and at the base corner of the cubby closer towards the push button, possibly.

[Chaetagnath]

Originally Posted by Honeydew

For the life of god I can't remove that piece!! There's no where to grab and I pushed with so much force it still wouldn't come out

Try pulling the USB connector part out, then you can slide your finger in behind and pull the tray out.

[Minovsky]

i got it! it was easier to push the usb side and it just came out but i used full on nuke force and couldnt get it out on the driver side...

[Admiral Ballsy]

Originally Posted by chanomatik

When you go to reuse the screws for the speaker guard and bracket, you will be left with one extra hole.

Anyone doing this will figure it out, but both this and the OP are incorrect. There are two extra screws required per side (the OP said three).

There are four points where screws are used to hold the three pieces of the new panels together. Two of them are handled by existing screws, but the other two are not.

You could assemble without the extra screws, and it won't fall apart, but it'll probably rattle when the radio's on.

The yellow circles indicate the two new screw positions; the orange is a locating pin (the OP may have mistaken it for a screw position, but it's not).