All the loose cloth actually pulled out very easily... only in the pillar area I had to cut around the screw with a razor... I could have unscrewed the screws and taken that part of the pinched cloth but why bother all that and possibly cause some more weirdness (the pillar cover strip already cracked and lost a couple of pegs, but not enough to not be able to snap them back in thank god) when it will be covered anyways.

The blackish surface underneath actually looks totally clean and fine to me, not sure why anyone would need to cover that part up with more work and other cloth, thats just me.