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Honda S2000: Custom Interior — Leather Seats and Door Panels Andrew Totolos does a little interior design work on an already-Tricked Honda S2000. Included in the upgrade: custom leather seat covers, new door panels to complement the custom exterior — and a little carbon fiber never hurts. From "Tricked Out" episode DTRK-413

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Seats removed

Part 1: Remove Old Interior and Clean Carpet

Andrew begins the transformation of the S-2000 interior by removing the seats, console and door panels, and by giving the carpet a good cleaning.

Tools and materials for this phase of the project:

standard shop tools
vacuum
dry brush
spray carpet cleaner

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	Figure A
	Figure B
	Figure C

Instructions:

• To begin, the old interior must be removed. Taking the seats out if fairly easy. Slide them forward, and remove the rear bolts (figure A).

• Flip the seat and slide it back to get to the front bolts. Remove the bolts, and the seat can be removed from the car (figure B).

• The passenger seat comes out the same way.

• Now remove the center console (figure C). The clip-based armrest panel comes out first. Unscrew any screws and remove any clips that remain.

• Any switches in the interior panels will have plugs underneath that are easy to break. Just take your time and make sure everything's unplugged before you pull off any parts.

• For the project car, Andrew decides to remove the door panels because he plans to replace the center section of each panel with leather that matches the new seat covers.
  

  Andrew with removed door panel

• Just like most car doors, there's a screw hiding behind the release lever, which you'll have to hold out of the way to get to. Once it's out the trim piece can be removed.

• Pop out the small screw covers in the door hole. Remove the screws, and grab the panel around the edges as you pull it off.

• To finish up, unplug the switches and pull it free.

• Instead of replacing the project car's carpet, Andrew decides to clean it really well. First, he vacuums all of the dirt from the carpet. Once all the big pieces of dirt are gone, he uses a dry brush to loosen any ground-in dirt. Vacuum again.
  

  Interior, after cleaning

• To finish up the carpet cleaning, use a spray carpet cleaner to penetrate deeply into the carpet. Once it's sprayed on let it sit for a few seconds before scrubbing.

  Tip: Brush in circles to dig into the carpet and draw out the dirt.

• Vacuum once again to remove any residue.

• Repeat the carpet-cleaning process on the passenger side.

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