how to remove the dashboard....

[boblbee]

hey guys does somebody knows how to remove the upper dashboard wanna hide my gps receiver in it.... can't really figure it out... and i wanna do it right without tear the whole thing apart..

[Goonery]

This could be quite tough, the whole dash is delivered per built for each car, and just slots in, its built as a complete unit before being delivered to the line.
So to get it apart you really have to take the whole thing out, and then start removing bits from there. However, if your car has the shelf arrangement instead of the little cubby hole, and the glove box, things are not as bad. You should be able to find a way up and under this way. Thats why its hard for dealers to fix facia rattles.

[boblbee]

Hmmm For the good order I mean the piece of dash which is located near the window... As shown in the pic... is that one piece with the whole dash??
anyway thnx for u'r reply goonery

[Sooty]

Iv'e a post here on one of the Ipaq / nav threads that says if you remove the 2 panels at the end of the dash there's 2 screws at each side and that's all that holds the top of the dashboard.

There's also an OEM fitting guide on here for a trafficpro nav system I think and it shows the top of the dash removed for GPS receiver intall.

I have ipaq and tomtom 2, my GPS receiver is just sat on the dash top. I might get round to opening the dash top and putting it in there one day.

[mikeythemini]

Just pop the dash end cover off, you can push your gps aerial in there, it works fine

[boblbee]

thnx for u'r reply mikemini, it doesn't matter where to pull first??? i can imagine that the plastic connections might break if i pull it on the wrong spot... don't wanna us doublesided tape afterwards hehe

[mikeythemini]

Open passenger door, use flat screwdriver in middle of back end of panel, ease out. You can then get your hand in and push the aerial up to top of dash (put some double sided sticky on it first.

[boblbee]

k thnx.... gonna try it when the mini is back from his first oilchange service....

[mwedge]

Here is a link to step by step with pictures for removing the dashtop.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/sjbartnik/dash.html

[boblbee]

mwedge THNX!!! that's great, nice pics and good instructions.....

[boblbee]

heyhey guys,

The Gps receiver is installed... normally it gets 9-11 fixes... but after putting the receiver under the dash, I get 7-9 fixes... tom tom needs 3 fixes sooo stil no problem.. anyway thnx for u'r help guys...here a pic without the dashboard, the location i used for the reciever is marked....