Interior Stripping Questions.

So in the next weekend or two I plan on removing nearly the entire interior, I've had the panels door cards center console rear wall (now a molle gear rack) and the rear storage bins out before and had the carpet flopped around but never fully removed but I have never fully dropped the headliner, just pulled it back a bit to run wires due to the airbag labeled plastic bits that I don't know how to remove. I have also never removed the lower dash half but that should be straight forward, just never done it.

I intend to sound deaden the interior and insulate it against heat as well as install new speakers, pre run and clean up some existing wiring behind the dash and instal the solid rubber/vinyl "FJ style" OEM flooring.

So my questions are, how do I remove the airbag knobs and thus drop the headliner? I'm sure it's dead easy but haven't come across yet and afraid of breaking them trying to figure it out myself.

And to anyone who has taken on this project, what is something you wish you did or should I do while you the interior is gutted?

Any mods or things to access and or fix repair and be aware of while it's all out?

(I am not installing an amp at this time.)

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2012-dc-interior-head-liner-removal-write-up.247104/

 

Thanks! I expected them to be sensors as well, and while the OP of that thread refers to them as such without wiring or any kind of "head" on there it appears they are just there to hold up the headliner in place and have no other function that's a good relief, they come apart about how I expected too but having only glanced at them before and shying away do to the SRS AIRBAG labeling on them I assumed they opened the other direction.

At least that's an easy hurdle.

The rest I knew or have done, Toyota are just big lego sets there's nothing too complicated on them besides Airbags and Trac/ABS. That stuff I leave to the professionals for the most part.

But while I got stuff removed wanna take advantage of it if there's anything else to prep/mod/make way for.

 

Recommend butal based deadening for over head applications. Also topped it off with some “foam”. If you ever intend to get a rearward facing camera now is the time to run wiring.

 

Yeah I'm going to re-run my existing rear cam wiring, right now it goes along under the passenger pillars and door trims and back up, just tucked under the headliner didn't want it in the way of thw airbags.

I will be using Dynamat extreme, Dynaliner, and on the backwall where the majority of my exterior noise comes from Dynapad, I've done it cheap before; roof tar rubber strips frost king aluminum backed closed cell foam insulation and that got it tolerable but I'm not happy with it. I guess I'm fed up enough I have decided to go full bore this time and then going over all that with reflextix in the ceiling and floor.

Buy once cry once so the adage says.