Its not so much hard as time consuming and yes there are no short cuts to do so would make the jod alot harder than it is but there are only 4 nuts holding the top part of the dash in 2 across the top if u pop out the 2 little covers across the top of the dash you will see them and 2 in the bottom corners but all bottom of the dash glove box centre console gauge cluster's all ahve to be removed