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It's a pie-slice shaped piece of vertical carpeting.
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Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:14:22 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: her heater core took a dump...may be the cause?, Austin Underwood, Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:49:49
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Austin, sorry, have digital camera but no experience loading stuff up to the web.

So here's a thousand words instead:

It's a little panel of floppy carpeting.

Not much at all to removing it. About two feet long, seven or eight inches high at front, 2 1/2-3" high at rear.


On the '96 this piece looks like it had upholstery attaching rivets pushed thru holes in the carpet, one near rear about below the shift lever, another near front of car up a few inches from bottom edge, pushed into the "facia reinforcing member" we're talking about. Maybe a couple more. It tucks up behind stuff overhead, and I think under the lip of the console.

As I said all fasteners are missing on my car. Probably they're the Saab kind that turn half a twist with a screwdriver slot in their top, and then pull right out. Or maybe they are the kind with barbs on their sides that pull out while fighting all the way, and you pry under their heads with an upholstery removal tool or small pry bar.

On my car the carpet-and-plastic cover for the fuse panel and relay area is also unattached and down, which gives a little more access to the top edge of the piece you'll need to remove. Maybe you'd need to pull that too, but I doubt it. It seems to have had more fasteners.

My guess is it's a wild goose chase. If that ground were bad it would probably be giving you a zillion other problems as well. But might as well try it.


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