How to Remove Tailgate Interior Trim 2010-15 Toyota Prius

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To remove the rear hatch trim, we'll have to start at the top piece here. Use your plastic prying tool. You can buy these from 1AAuto.com. Slide it underneath here. Pop it out. It's going to snap. Just get it started. Got four clips. If a clip stays behind, it’s not a big deal. You use this part of the tool or this part of the tool. Slide it underneath here. Pop it out, and it can be reused by simply pushing it back in here. Put that aside. Now we pop this side trim off. This will be the same for both sides. You usually get started like this. It'll pop right off. Un-clip it from this lower one. The same for the other side.

The middle piece is not the next piece. It's actually last. We can do the bottom part here. Use a plastic prying tool, a narrow one. There's a small cutout slot here. I'm going to get in here underneath it. Pop it off the clips. Pull it down. Work your way around it. They're in here. With some significant force, you got to put on it to pull it out. Work your way all the way around, using the plastic prying tool to help you take them off. Do the same on this side. Pry it down. Separate it from this middle panel. Try to pull forward and up with a good amount of force.

You're trying to separate it from these little pull handle cups, going to slide behind the metal. Pop it off from this panel here. This seemed to have broken off, but it really didn't. You can just push it back into place because, once it's inside, the panel holds it up against it, and then you reach in and grab it so it won't come apart once it's in there.

Now, with the lower and the upper panels removed, we can get to the center panel. Start to pull it down. It just un-clips it. Just un-clip it. These clips are, some good tension to them so I'm going to really pull on it. With all these trim panels off, you can get to the rear washer nozzle, you can get to the rear wiper motor.

These are your connections, where they defrost on this lower piece of glass and then the defrost on the upper piece of glass, you need to make repairs there. You can also reach the rear connector for your door handle and all the bolts and the nuts for your rear trim panel. The plate lights are accessible through openings in the trims. You don't have to take off the trim, but you can see them in here and, of course, all your wiring harnesses that are in here.

Reinstall the middle trim piece first. There's four clips along the inside here. Slide it up into position. Clip it in place. Going to reinstall the lower part. Does have some tabs here and here. They're going to fit into the openings here and here on this center trim piece. These pull handles that are on the panel, they come up and they hook into the sheet metal here. Get into position. I'm going to go in this way with it. Slide it in. Push it back in on the clips. Trim panel's reinstalled.

Going to reinstall the two side pieces. These install the same exact way for both sides. Line them up to here. Push the clips into place. Do the same for the other one. Reinstall the center piece. This key, there's a wide part that fits in this wide opening here, and then two pieces here that fit over here so you don't have to try and install it backwards. It won't fit. These will need to line up with the corresponding openings. Trim is reinstalled.