Did manage to do this today as well, it was quite a pita. With the rubber insulation and the throttle pedal in the way and all the other dash bs it was quite difficult to get a bite on the clips. I ended up just taking the pedal out of the way, I got the pliers to bite, had Dan pull from the engine bay and she popped out. Mind you that was after a good few mins of the both of us trying to squeeze and push with the pliers.