This is a really good reverse engineering exercise but as a cautionary note:

If you are doing this in your real car most of the trim on the dashboard is secured by plastic clips. You need specialized car trim tools (similar to the phone case ones but well bigger) to remove them along the edges without denting the outer plastic edges.

Also most of them are meant to clip-on once. So if you take them apart too many times you might start seeing gaps on the trim and things not properly fitting.

Again it might not be something you care about but just thought I would mention. Ideally you would be better off getting one of these from after-sales or 2nd hand from scrap parts and working on a bench top with a 12V line.

Very good advice.

If you're still game, a set of trim tools and replacement clips of all sorts are usually available from your favourite large online retailer.

I recently bought a set of trim tools for $AU28 and am assortment of trim clips and roof liner clips for a few more tens of dollars.

Definitely worth watching a couple how to videos on YouTube too.

Having said that: don't be surprised when you break something.

The exploit doesn't require removing the unit. Simply inserting a prepared flash drive is all that is required.

They also explore using a serial connection at the bottom of the chassis. It is specifically that part of accessing the bottom of the chassis that I was advising some caution.