I just took mine out and it was the biggest bitch. The wire for the temp control needs to come undone first. There is a small pole it is attached to to the right of the center column below the glove box...take that off and it can come out farther. You need to pup out the rear defroster and hazard switched...I used a flat head screw driver and did it without damage...those plugs are easy. The hard ones are the two in back...a real PITA. It took two of us to do it...one squeezed the tabs on the plugs while the other pulled.
Hope this helps.