From ebay, of course, i bought some glowing gauges and I was going to put them in tonight. Little did i know how rough it was going to be to take off the part around the base that holds all the intruments and of course the gauges.

First thing, my car is a gen 5 accord ex with vtec
Hopefully someone here has a 5th gen whose put these in there car

I got most of the dash off and can still get most of it off up until i get to where the central 2 air vents are and the ac controls. This is where I got stuck.

I tried pulling the top, i tried pulling on the bottom, i looked for any different type of screws that might be hiding right directly inside after you pull it it out alittle bit. I found one on the bottom and one on the right side, the bottom one came out easy but the one on the side is facing to the front of the car so theres really no way to unscrew it. I noticed that when we pull it out most of the clips pop but it never really comes out. I have no idea i pulled pretty hard and it didnt come out.
For the night i pushed most of it back in but i left the screws out for now so i can finish it tomorrow.

Does anyone know what im missing or maybe i just need to be a man and rip that **** out? I really dont want to break it so before i go in with a hammer and a flathead ...lol

 

It's a bitch to get to the cluster.

I'll make a list of what needs to be removed:

1) Inside arm rest, open the small panel at the bottom and remove those two screws

2) Pull up on cup holder (should pop out) there is one screw at an ANGLE at the front of the opening, ignore the two ones in the middle, remove that one angled screw

3) Pull up the ebrake if it's not already up and the entire armrest/cupholder piece should slide back and up (move it around the ebrake)

4) Two screws are in front of you now near the ebrake and behind the shifter on the black piece, remove those

5) Pull out the ash tray (straight out) and remove the screw above the OBD II connector

6) Pull out the Coin Holder, remove the screw behind that and pull off the steering column cover (about 8 clips)

7) The black center console should be loose now, kinda lift it up and out - there's two clips holding it near the radio

8) Unclip the lighter , clock, hazards, and fog connectors at the top and put the piece aside

9) Remove the two screws at the base of the radio (near the OBDII connector) and pull the radio out - unplug the main harness and the antenna

10) It should look pretty empty at this point, remove the two screws on the left side of the tan part of the center console (one up by AC controls, one below near bottom of steering column)

11) Kinda weird part, Open the glove box, there's two screws on the center console in similar areas, I was able to fanangle my way in there to remove them, take out both of these.

12) Remove the two upper screws on the center console (silver and hex head)

13) The center console should now be free to be pulled out (you MAY need to remove your glove box - two screws on bottom + clipped on arm on the right side)

14) Put your hand on the back of the dash and pop out the Dimmer, Cruise/Sunroof, and defrost switches - behind the Cruise/Sunroof is a screw - remove that, behind the defrost is a screw - remove that as well

15) Look up under the Heating / AC controls where the clock/hazards used to be, you should see two small screws - remove those

16) Lower the steering wheel all the way and remove the two screws recessed where the cluster is

17) Congrats (haha) you can now pop out the black trim that holds everything in there, if you want you can just swing it carefully into your passenger footwell (what I do) or unclip/screw the heating/ac cable and pull it out

18) Now, you should see your naked dash, 4 gold screws hold in the cluster (2 on each side), remove these

19) CAREFULLY pull the cluster foward, there's three harnesses that attach to it, no way to describe what I did, but manuever it around to unclip those and pull it out, be careful as the cluster plastic can break easily

20) To take apart the cluster, remove the light bulb that connects to the top of it (there's two wires so just follow them) now there's two clips on the bottom and three on the top, carefully press all those in and the clear covering should slide off.

21) Removal of gauges and what not - Pull up on the flat covering that has the labels on it (it probably is already loose) this should expose everything else.

- Turn the cluster around this is what everything is:

1) Three screws hold in the Temp Gauge and Fuel Gauge
2) Four screws hold in the Speedo and the Tach

There are NO wires going to these pieces, I believe the power is transferred through the screws, so don't lose any and don't damage anything.

I may try to post pics up later since that's a pretty detailed explaination. Accord FAQ worthy haha

 

I agree something like that you should sticky or put into the install forums. That thing is a complete bitch to get off. I didnt do it yet but i know exactly what your talking about because i was reading on how to change my shifter with a SS made by PSEC and it gives half of those instructions but i didnt think it was all required just to take out dash for to get to the speedo and the tach.

 

Yeah, depressingly for our cars you have to take out the whole assembly to get to the cluster.

The year right after it's just 2-4 screws and it's out haha.

Good luck with it.