Accessing Rear Strut assembly Obstacle Course-Help

[TheTamago]

Well I found the tutorial and was trying to follow the DIY setup but getting lil confused so I need some directions from the crazy DIY ppl!
I'll be needing a slim flathead screwdriver, philips drivers, and the needed sockets which I got now, the socket wrench kit!

So first off, I rip the rear cushion seat off the clips and slide the seatbelt clips out of it. Then i lowered the seats down.
First Obstacle:
Umm.. is it neccessary to remove the bolts from the seatbelts?

I removed the plastic pins easily from the plastic covering.

Second Obstacle:
Need to unscrew the lil bezel clips on the rear dashboard by the rear speakers?

Third Obstacle:
Will sliding a covered thin flathead into the protective plastic on the door hinges be ok to access the screws?
Then i can just pull the panel off since the rest of it is velcro?

Fourth Obstacle:
Not sure if this is required but its in the installation diagram. Will I need to remove the upper window panel as well before I can finally get access to the final clips holding the dashboard down?

Its not neccessary to remove the rear seats is it? I kinda recalled when I was doing a DIY self-install of my alarm kit way back that I had to rip the seats out and all that. But the strut access is similar to how I did my alarm system. Just lesser panels to rip apart since I ain't messing with the entire car.

Thanks in advance!

[SleeperSolara]

All you have to do is pop out the side panels near the oh-shite bar for the back passengers and the panel near the seat belts for the front.
And then take out the black plastic thingy the cover the rear hole thingy.
You will see the black thingy when you sittin' on the rear seats down.
Then you pull that off.
And then you look in the corner on both sides and move the sound deadenin' alittle and then you will see them.
Hope this helps.

[DatSRBoi]

Btter to take out the whole rear. Its actually faster then trying to do the short cut.

[TheTamago]

Only need to access so I can tinker the Coilover setting knob.

[ThatVietGuy]

I just put in my coilovers last week and if I remember correctly, it seems that just about everything has to come out in order to reach the top of the coilover.

[jhenty]

everything has to come out to do it the right way.