I recently got an updated bluetooth module and last night I was going to swap out the old one for this new one. However, I was made a complete mockery of by the darned plastic tabs that hold the carpet cover to the frame that houses the BT box (see pic attachment). They're like plastic screws only you push them in rather than screw them in...and it seems like once you've pushed them in, there's no way those babies are coming out again.

 

How does one go about removing these? Is it just a case of brute force and ignorance...and swing on them till they come out? (Although I did swing on them pretty hard last night, but to no avail). Or is there some neat little trick that I'm blissfully unaware of?

 

Thanks!

Edited 4 February, 201412 yr by slicendice

If there is something which looks lika a little button in the top of these, you press it in, (if i remember correctly), and then it pops up and screw comes out,  to refit, place screw back in and push button back down.

I didn't notice anything button-like on top of them but I'll check again tonight. Will make life a lot easier if this is the case! 

Well I checked again last night and it doesn't look like there are any quick release type mechanisms on these things :(

 

Any other suggestions on how to get them out? I really don't want to have to resort to a large axe 

Give a Skoda dealership a ring, ask them, they should put you wise??

They are definitely a push fit pin into some hole or other as I had some with the same carpet piece I bought to cover my module. They must be sitting inside some kind of bracket pretty tight, but I've only ever seen the plastic modules which come with a simple foam case and the grip is minimal with those.  My guess is a good trim removal tool will do it - like one of these:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-TRIM-CLIP-REMOVER-CAR-VAN-DOOR-UPHOLSTERY-REMOVING-REMOVAL-TOOL-SET-KIT-/161216068215?pt=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item258939fa77

 

Adam

Well, I got there in the end but had to go all agricultural...used a Stanley knife to hack the tops off!! Not pretty but it worked...although from looking at the bits left over, I don't think these were made to be removed - they had one-way flanges on them (as opposed to some kind of thread) so they're easy to push in, but impossible to take out!

 

Of course, now I'm managed to get them off, I can't find my blinkin Torx screwdriver set to get the frame out <sigh> It's never easy! :|

Edited 6 February, 201412 yr by slicendice

I bought some similar that hold the grill down what wiper spindles go through, near base of windscreen.

Skoda call them 'Tree clips'