to anyone that might be able to help me, i'm new around here so if there is already a thread about this my apologies. i just got an 05 cobalt this week with only 24,000 miles on it. i wanted to start doing a few things do it but the first thing i wanted to do was a little bit of painting work to the dash around the cd player and and such. I have included a picture of a cobalt that i saw on cardomain.com that was painted black and yellow so that you can see somewhat what i wanted to do with mine. i just want to pop out the middle piece, not the one that is painted mostly yellow. my question is how do i get the piece around the cd player and heat/air condition controls out without breaking the plastic? thanks for your help.

 

The search button on the toolbar at the top of the page towards the right yeided this result when searched for how to paint dash-
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/show...ght=paint+dash

 

you have to take the outer pieces off first and they will seem like ur gonna break them but the metal clips just hld them really good

 

the outer pieces that are to the left and right hafta come out first. like the piece that is painted mostly yellow in that picture i posted?

got it. thanks you two for the help. i really appreciate it!!!