JLH
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Any advice or experience on removing the frontseat front skirts on my '14? I've pulled on them pretty firmly it but I'm leery of pulling too hard and breaking a tab or something...
Front seat plastic skirts
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When you do get them off please take pictures of the back side and whatever clips hold them on.
I’m planning a thread specifically to post info and pictures to help in situations like this. But need more solid pictures and don’t have the time to rip apart my interior just for the thread..
JLH
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Here's what I found removing the skirt to install my dual band radio under the drivers seat. Not a lot of room under there and if it wasn't the tiny Yaesu FT-90, it wouldn't have fit.
First, there's a screw on the back left under the flap that goes across the back of the seat.
Remove that screw and then pop off the seat control switch covers and remove two more silver screws.
The next attachment is a bear. Under the front left corner of the skirt is another screw that matches the first black screw in back. Its right at the corner directly left of the screwdriver in the above pic.
It's in a position that's difficult to see and there's not a lot of space to work. I took the photo with the selfie cam so I could see it, if you contort your neck you can catch a glimpse. In my case, it was cross threaded from the factory and didn't want to back out with a phillips 'tweaker' screwdriver. It took a 1/4 ratchet with an short extension and a 1/4 inch socket for a #1 phillips bit to remove it. Looking at the pic the right side is towards the firewall.
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First, there's a screw on the back left under the flap that goes across the back of the seat.
Remove that screw and then pop off the seat control switch covers and remove two more silver screws.
The next attachment is a bear. Under the front left corner of the skirt is another screw that matches the first black screw in back. Its right at the corner directly left of the screwdriver in the above pic.
It's in a position that's difficult to see and there's not a lot of space to work. I took the photo with the selfie cam so I could see it, if you contort your neck you can catch a glimpse. In my case, it was cross threaded from the factory and didn't want to back out with a phillips 'tweaker' screwdriver. It took a 1/4 ratchet with an short extension and a 1/4 inch socket for a #1 phillips bit to remove it. Looking at the pic the right side is towards the firewall.
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JLH
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Once that is removed you can rotate the entire assembly out to remove the seat control harness.
At this point the entire skirt can rotate to allow access to a screw that secures the front skirt to the side cover that has the controls. I apparently didn't get a pic of that screw. Once its removed you can pop the tabs to separate the side cover from the front skirt. The front is also held on the center console side by another hard to see screw. I didn't remove it as the front skirt would now rotate out enough for access.
It's pretty obvious that this was all assembled in the factory before the seat was bolted in the truck. The biggest obstacle was the cross threaded screw, I swapped the back screw into the front location on reassembly.
At this point the entire skirt can rotate to allow access to a screw that secures the front skirt to the side cover that has the controls. I apparently didn't get a pic of that screw. Once its removed you can pop the tabs to separate the side cover from the front skirt. The front is also held on the center console side by another hard to see screw. I didn't remove it as the front skirt would now rotate out enough for access.
It's pretty obvious that this was all assembled in the factory before the seat was bolted in the truck. The biggest obstacle was the cross threaded screw, I swapped the back screw into the front location on reassembly.
Good stuff, thanks for posting