Try reaching up from under the dash to the back side of the panel. If you go to each clip, compress it, and push out, you will be able to get the bottom of the panel loose. Then you can grab it from the front and wiggle/pop it free.

 

Did it to my MY2006.

The mod worked perfectly. I cut the speed sensor wire and grounded the brake wire to the frame using alligator clips. This was exactly the same mod for my Boxster.

I don't subscribe to the "don't disable all the safety features" mentality. These laws are crazy. You are driving a 3000lb machine at 70 mph where the slightest twitch of your arm could kill you and others, but you can't be trusted not to accidently put up the top at highway speed, causing damage and injury. People have used tops like this for decades without these "safety features". It's the same mentality that causes some Nav units to not work at all when the vehicle is in motion. The companies are paranoid of being sued by idiots and their lawyers. Rant Rant Rant

I would add that getting the dash panel off has not been well explained yet. I read the threads here, yanked at it a few times then had a professional do it. What's missing here is that before you can pull this panel off, you first have to remove a screw from the center of the panel, which is visible inside the "pocket". Also on the extreme left and right side of the pockets are 2 plastic pins which need to be removed. They are spring loaded and if you press at the center with a pointed object, the center will pop out, allowing you to pull the pin out. When these three anchors are removed, then you can pull the panel off and its only held by the 6 clips.

 

That screw must be new in 06. My 05 just had 6 clips that pushed straight out.

 

The pocket on that panel is new for MY 06.

 

Nevermind - Got it... you can actually just lay upside down with a light and see the wire you need to cut.

Edit again:

Just finished everything.
You do indeed need to use a small pin to press on each of the pins on each side of the car in the middle.. just a little pressure is needed then just pull it right out. Unscrew the screw in the middle and pull towards the passenger seat and the piece should come out really easily.

Thanks for the info guys - doing a test run now

 

Corner.

 

ok, so im totaly going to do this to MY05 tomorrow. Any tips or tricks that i may have missed if i read pages 1 and 2 only?

lol

im only goign to cut and cap the white/black wire (speed sensor) and click the ebreak 1 click.

 

pop the panel
cut the white/black-stripe wire

 

cool, so it does indeed work on ap2's! woot! this will help a LOT!

what is the best low speed to do this at? like below 15 only?

 

It works on everything up to and including the '06 model. I'm usually going 20mph or less when raising/lowering the top.