Acho
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In my S the diagnostic port is behind the decorative panel on the passanger side /center console/ and when I pull it out to ge acces to the connector all the clips stay on the tabs and then snap back with gentle tap. Never tried to push them though. Just tap lightly with fist and that's itHm.. when I removed the cubby ('hinged' it down), it wouldn't snap back up at all until I'd removed the clips, and pushed them back into the 'ceiling' and then pushed the cubby back up into the clips.
The clips are really supposed to be on the plastic tabs permanently? I can try it again, but I got no sense of 'snapping in and out' with the clips on the cubby side of things.