Carpokes

Does anyone have personal experience, video links or other information on the process to remove the interior trim and access the front engine cover behind the seats in a 718 Cayman?

I've searched here and other forums as well as just Google/YouTube and find lots of guides to get to the top engine access. But so far I have not found much on getting to the engine access behind the seats. The only one's I've found so far already have the trim removed and they just say "just take out the interior trim and pull out the carpet/insulation piece".

Like anything with these cars, I expect there is a generally best order of operations and sequence to getting in there and I almost always benefit from watching or reading a guide that provides good photos and reference.

I have not accessed the front of the engine but have had some of the trim off recently. You need to take off the trim around the upper seat belts, then unbolt the "harness bar", remove the trim below it then you should be able to pull out the carpet.

You should be able to unbolt the cover after that.


I did see a video on YT of someone doing this, possibility to change the drive belt or similar. I will try to find it.

I had mine off a couple of years ago when I replaced the serpentine belt. I did not have a guide to follow, but do not recall any head scratchers. Don't recall any process details, which is a pretty sure bet that it wasn't terribly difficult. Seemed fairly straight forward to me, but I've done this kind of stuff for over 5 decades now, and not much stumps me.