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I am trying to install my driver information system. I am trying to take out the console (around the a/c, etc). I have removed the 2 screws on the bottom.

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The console still seems to be attatched to something.

Do I need to rip my dash apart to get this console out?

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Note I have 2 consoles (the console shown had the DIS in it (just removed it) and I am trying to put it into my car

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In other words I dont know what I need to unscrew to get this bitch out. Help would be greatly appreciated

Posted

There is a screw/bolt on the back of the dashpocket that you will have to remove as well. Should use the same tool as you use to remove the upper screws that hold the panel onto the dash.

Posted

remove the gray trim around the gauge cluster and radio. there's six phillips head screws, all facing downward. give the trim piece a light yank and it should come out. at the top the center piece where the climate controls/DIS go, there will be 3 7mm hex screws at the top, behind where the gray trim was. there is also a phillips head screw in the very back of the storage bin in the bottom, towards the passenger side.

 

there are some metal clips (or at least 1) in the center piece around where the heat vent is.. just pull it, it comes right out.

 

and uh.. you don't actually have to change the center piece. they're the same thing with and without the DIS. just switch over the new, smaller storage bin.

Posted
There is a screw/bolt on the back of the dashpocket

 

Can u elaborate Dashpocket?

 

remove the gray trim around the gauge cluster and radio

 

How does one go about removing the trim

Posted
There is a screw/bolt on the back of the dashpocket

 

Can u elaborate Dashpocket?

 

he means the storage bin

 

remove the gray trim around the gauge cluster and radio

 

How does one go about removing the trim

 

read the next two sentences :roll:

 

there's six phillips head screws, all facing downward. give the trim piece a light yank and it should come out.

 

after it's removed:

 

http://members.cox.net/odyssey37/images/dashcenterconsolescrews.jpg

Posted

So I assume that trim u talk about is the trim around the tape deck, around the cluster, has the Unleaded gas written on it.. how hard is it to put it back together?

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So I assume that trim u talk about is the trim around the tape deck, around the cluster, has the Unleaded gas written on it..

 

that would be what I said, yea...

 

how hard is it to put it back together?

 

not very.

 

and what I said before:

 

just switch over the new, smaller storage bin.

 

ignore it. you don't have to do that because your HUD dimmer switch is there. you might not have a screw back in your existing bin either, because of that.

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Not hard. You just remove all of the screws that are visible, and the piece should literally just 'snap out'. You will have to give it a bit of a tug as there are retaining clips. Make sure you get 'em all though (screws). A short-handle Phillips screwdriver is teh tool to use.

Posted

ok i think i figured it out.. i hope to god i can get the grey panel of the top of the dash back in.. heh

 

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this is what im yankin out?

Posted
remove the gray trim around the gauge cluster and radio.
Posted

Yup. Pull it back a little bit (so you clear the dash trim), and then lift straight up. Give it a few swift tugs and it'll come out eventually.

Posted

son of a bitch

well i finally got it out enough to peek in. i was assuming my car was pre-wired for it (international series)

guess not :cry:

 

too dark to put it all back together now... tough luck i guess

 

guess i will be selling a Driver info system on ebay soon :(

 

but i did manage to find $15 of lost changed in there.. word of advice. do not use the ashtray as a change holder

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guess i will be selling a Driver info system on ebay soon :(

 

why? they're easy enough to wire up, and well worth it. and I don't think a '92 even could've been prewired, they stopped putting them in there in '91.

 

but hey, if you decide do decide to sell it, I'd take it off your hands for cheap. mine's been driving me nuts... friggen gas mileage info isn't working right and the thing beeps at me every time i start the car telling me low fuel range..

 

but i did manage to find $15 of lost changed in there.. word of advice. do not use the ashtray as a change holder

 

I learned that the hard way too..

Posted

I also wired up a DIS into my cutlass. It isn't that bad. Took me about an hour and a half from start to finish. I'll try to find the instructions on the wiring.

 

Also I heard that 90' was the last year that the DIS came prewired. The only way a 91 would be wired for it is if the DIS was ordered from the factory.

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Posted

The link doesn't work, can someone help me find these instructions. I'm trying to to put one in a 93 Cutty Conv. Thanks!!!

 

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