irod

Could anyone post some tips on how to remove the driver's side carpet? I'm trying to access the CAN bus conduits and hubs under it.

The carpet is really solid, it doesn't seem to bend, and when I tried to bend it a little to get it off I damaged/broke the block of thick felt sound-deadening material that's attached to the bottom of it.

I'm afraid if I keep tugging at the carpet and bending it I will leave permanent bend-marks on it, since it's not very flexible at all.

Anyone tried this before? Thanks!

vic viper

Remove the door sill trim, the black plastic part it comes off if you pull it hard upwards, then carefully pull away the door seal from the plastic lower A pillar trim, then you can easily pull out the trim panel,
Remove the accelerator pedal, very easy just two plastic nuts and a connector,
pull the seat all the way back then you can start to lift out the carpet starting at the end closest to the door and front seat.

irod

Thank you! I'll give it a go.

irod

That worked! Thanks! I didn't have to remove all of the carpet so I just removed the door sill trim and was able to lift the carpet up to access the CAN conduit by unhooking it from the center console/transmission tunnel. Didn't have to remove the pedal.

Appreciate the help.

shotgun_banjo

Why do you need to access that?

irod

Installed a DVD-in-motion unit (SmartTV), which needed to be daisy chained into the CAN bus.