In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:40:20 -0400,
wrote:

On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:45:51 -0400, micky
wrote:

I have to remove the air vents above the radio in the middle of the dash
tomorrow, on a 2005 Toyota.

I tried today several times and the bezel or whatever bent without
breaking, but the thing popped back where it was originally.

I'm worried about cracking or breaking the plastic. Today was 68,
tomorrow will be 71 they say.

Is it better to do this in warm weather? I can turn on the heater and
warm up the plastic, if that will either make it less likely to break,
or more likely for the rectangular plastic plugs to slip out of their
rectangular plastic sockets. 3 at the top and 3 at the bottom, left,
right, and middle.

I should more closely but I think or I assume the console and the box
below the radio have the same kind of plugs and they came out easily,
twice. The box doesn't even require any extra pulling, in the videos
I've seen and in person. No harder than picking it up from a table. So
i don't know why these are so hard. More sunlight on them?
Don't do it in cold, but 68F is not cold.

Of course 68 is not cold, but the point of the question was whether it
would work better if it were even warmer. You didn't address that.

Maybe someone else could tell me what they think about warming the vents
to 75 or 80, or even warmer. Would it help keep the plastic from
cracking?

Things are seldom as simple as they look on U-Tube - get used to it.

What are you talking about? Taking off the console top and the box were
just as simple for me as they were in the videos and I didn't comment on
how hard it was in the videos to do air vents.

But they did get the air vents off, so clearly I know that it's not
always as easy as the video or I wouldn't have bothered to ask about
them.

You just want to carp, even if it's irrelevant to what I said.