Do you mean remove the wood trim from the car altogether, or remove the wood-looking-plastic from the clips that snap into the car?


To move the wood trim from the door handles, it takes a lot of gentle prying to pop them loose. To remove the dash assembly, you need to remove the stereo head unit, then remove the climate control bezel, then remove four screws from the main trim.


To 'delaminate' the wood, this probably is infeasible. The main trim around the radio was metal on my car, so the 'wood' is actually just painted on. The same process is used on the other pieces, even though they are plastic.

 

assuming you're talking about the OEM wood pieces:

http://www.passatworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141895&highlight=wood
http://www.passatworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138187&highlight=center+console
http://www.passatworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142726&highlight=door

if you want to go to the non-wood trim, you're better off trading with someone who doesn't have the wood trim, plus you can get a few bux out of it.

 

Thank you - those were very helpful!!

 

Yeah, it was a pain taking those pieces off. Even pulling them off. That wanna be wood trim is stuck like metal. I just wanted plain black so everything looks nice and clean. In the end I ended up buying new pieces to replace all the scratched up stuff.

 

chainsaw :thumbup:

or with cloth covered fine flathead screw driver...

 

Erin, just call me and I'll get them out for you. You should have to heat them up before you take them out and taking them out shouldn't crack them. You just need to scrap the wood and get some net optic stuff anyway.