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All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: pudding on April 23, 2022, 01:29:17 pm

Title: Arm rest replacement
Post by: pudding on April 23, 2022, 01:29:17 pm: The leather (or is it faux pleather?) on my armrest is cracked/crazed and needs replacing. I don't fancy swapping out the whole frame assembly, so has anyone tried one of these covers? Looks OK in the pics but are they a bit sh1t shat in real life? Just literally need to change the leather bit.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351001770768
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: Sebas_theFish on April 23, 2022, 01:32:09 pm: The actual leather part of the armrest can be bought and replaced separately. I bought a handbrake cover from that company on eBay and the fitment was shocking.
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: pudding on April 23, 2022, 01:35:01 pm: Lol, OK I'll swerve that then :grin:

Yeah I noticed you can unscrew the arm rest bit from the frame, so do VW sell that bit separately? Would prefer genuine if it's not stupid money.
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: Sebas_theFish on April 23, 2022, 01:36:02 pm: It's listed in ETKA separately so they should sell it. Otherwise buy a used armrest and swap it over or you could have yours professionally retrimmed.
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: pudding on April 23, 2022, 01:40:59 pm: Thanks mate, I'll look into it. I can only find cloth ones on ebay but now knowing the top bit is sold separately, that's a good start, cheers :happy2:
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: LC5F on April 24, 2022, 02:37:19 pm: Good to see a vote of confidence in the Golf Pudding!

You can also unclip the outer cover off the frame, iirc the cover is just stapled on - I managed to grab a "leather"one in a scrappy - as usual VW cheaped out, it is not leather.
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: G-olf on April 24, 2022, 09:10:12 pm: There's one in the for sale section. kam's lots of parts post. Just incase it had been missed :smiley:
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: G-olf on April 24, 2022, 09:13:23 pm: sorry, its in its own post, leather armrest complete :happy2:
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: mjmallia on April 25, 2022, 07:26:47 am: The plastic panel under the lid pulls off, to then allow the top part to be removed.
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: pudding on April 26, 2022, 03:07:09 pm: Quote from: G-olf on April 24, 2022, 09:13:23 pm
sorry, its in its own post, leather armrest complete :happy2:

Yeah I saw that but it's way overpriced. Not paying that just to replace the top bit, but cheers anyway :happy2:
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: pudding on April 26, 2022, 03:09:02 pm: Quote from: LC5F on April 24, 2022, 02:37:19 pm
Good to see a vote of confidence in the Golf Pudding!

You can also unclip the outer cover off the frame, iirc the cover is just stapled on - I managed to grab a "leather"one in a scrappy - as usual VW cheaped out, it is not leather.

Yeah I'm hanging onto it for a bit until I can make my bloody mind up about what to do next :grin:

Yeah I didn't think it was leather :grin:
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: Mekaniko on April 26, 2022, 05:12:19 pm: I Have the DSG leather part from the same company and it's real leather with good quality
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: G-olf on April 26, 2022, 07:01:58 pm: I'm not sure how much they should be?? but there is also a leather lid for sale in the same ad separate without the framework parts?
Title: Re: Arm rest replacement
Post by: pudding on April 27, 2022, 09:38:09 am: Oh yeah, just seen that. Still fairly steeply priced, plus postage on top. And as we've ascertained in this thread, it's not leather anyway. I'd rather get a used cloth one from ebay for 20 quid than put that nasty pleather back on :grin: