Armrest lid
Armrest lid
Honestly, I can’t believe my luck sometime.
So Benjie, 5 years old, wanted to go round the block in the RS after it being sat on axel stands for around 4 months. In his excitement he threw open the armrest to get his sunglasses out and has snapped the hing.
Does anyone know the part number or where to order a replacement?
So Benjie, 5 years old, wanted to go round the block in the RS after it being sat on axel stands for around 4 months. In his excitement he threw open the armrest to get his sunglasses out and has snapped the hing.
Does anyone know the part number or where to order a replacement?
Re: Armrest lid
Mine was broken in exactly the same way. I couldn't find a genuine replacement - so mine is one of those ebay copies. The leather grain isn't quite right, but you wouldn't know if you didn't have the original next to it.
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Footlong did a big post about it a couple of years back.
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IIRC he was a perfectionst matching the leather grain too?
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Hi Matt
Is this the one. Looks very reasonable.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254959429000 ... BMvqK_tLVg
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I just bought a new lid - it was the plastic bracket that broke, identical failure to yours.
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Even better.
Link added to help others who may be in need.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-Console- ... 635-2958-0
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Looks exactly like mine. Aside from the slightly different leather grain, it’s been good.
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Mine recently went also, somebody had done a poor repair in the past with screws
Would it be possible to remove the leather from the lids and swap them over? I have natural leather so the cheapy lid would look quite out of place i imagine as mine isnt black as such
Would it be possible to remove the leather from the lids and swap them over? I have natural leather so the cheapy lid would look quite out of place i imagine as mine isnt black as such
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I think that's what footlong did. Worst case a leather specialist could recover it for you for not much I would have thought.
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Agreed, 99% sure that's what Stretch did.
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Re: Armrest lid
I think i'll give this a bash then
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Well there’s no need to recover the armrest...
At £10 a pop I thought I’d break one up to see if the part can be split in two and it can.
Pop the top off from the hinged base. The OE part has three tabs per side while the new bit has five.
Once they’re apart you’ll see the two tabs per side that need to be removed. A couple of passes with a stanly then snap them off does the trick.
Now you’ll see two little triangles along the front edge that need to be removed. Again the Stanley done the job.
Unfortunately here I had started clipping it back together before I spotted these two half moon tabs to the rear that needed to be removed. Thankfully the multi tool made sort work of them. Here you can see how much more padding the OE has over the knock off. Anyway the job took 10 minutes and just clips back together. The only risky part is not breaking the OE retaining clips when you split them and reattach. However even if you did do this the I’m sure velcroing the lid on isn’t a bad idea.
EDIT; just to add that there are two little bump stops to take off the front of the OE rest and pop in the new fitting.
Hope it helps guys.
At £10 a pop I thought I’d break one up to see if the part can be split in two and it can.
Pop the top off from the hinged base. The OE part has three tabs per side while the new bit has five.
Once they’re apart you’ll see the two tabs per side that need to be removed. A couple of passes with a stanly then snap them off does the trick.
Now you’ll see two little triangles along the front edge that need to be removed. Again the Stanley done the job.
Unfortunately here I had started clipping it back together before I spotted these two half moon tabs to the rear that needed to be removed. Thankfully the multi tool made sort work of them. Here you can see how much more padding the OE has over the knock off. Anyway the job took 10 minutes and just clips back together. The only risky part is not breaking the OE retaining clips when you split them and reattach. However even if you did do this the I’m sure velcroing the lid on isn’t a bad idea.
EDIT; just to add that there are two little bump stops to take off the front of the OE rest and pop in the new fitting.
Hope it helps guys.
Last edited by ChrisA on Fri Jul 01, 2022 10:56 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Lovely job.
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Matt, I’m assuming you probably have binned your original lid by now so can’t do this swap. Would you like the spare new lid off mine as it will only go in the bin now. It might be trying to rough it up to make it look OE at no cost?
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