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All Things Mk5 => How to Guides / Troubleshooting => Topic started by: janus909GTI on April 20, 2011, 11:26:50 am

Title: Armrest from a Breakers.....not happy!
Post by: janus909GTI on April 20, 2011, 11:26:50 am

Hey all,

So was planning on Retro fitting an armrest, thought id got lucky sourcing one, cost around £90 all in including delivery which i thought was alright.......

Arrived today, couple of things im not happy about so wanna get everyones advice and thoughts.

- The rear cupholder below the vents, wont shut and just flaps open, looking at the mechanism i cant figure out why it wont shut, very annoying
- There is like no shutter inbetween where the handbreak would go, so theres going to be a massive void above or below the handbreak, surly this isnt normal
- There is about a 2cm diameter hole to the left of the handbreak smack bang in the middle of the plastic, im guessing a button of some sort was normally posistioned there, thats no good and looks rubbish, does anyone have a button here on their armrest.....

So i really dont know what to do??///////  :fighting:

Title: Re: Armrest from a Breakers.....not happy!
Post by: Richn83 on April 20, 2011, 11:49:31 am

The front hole is for the aux in socket or you have a blank see my pic.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_4kAgpBiQyvk/TWWSIa73Z2I/AAAAAAAAAT0/LqeG1TqAu_4/s640/P1020724.JPG)
There is a part that has a gator that should go over the handbrake to fill the void will see if I can find you a picture but you might find one on ebay.
You can see the part at the front of my picture it clips into the arm rest frame and has a screw down the front.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_4kAgpBiQyvk/TWWPA6UjLiI/AAAAAAAAAS8/hi0l6aJimDE/s800/P1020770.JPG)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_4kAgpBiQyvk/TWWPIHIZiXI/AAAAAAAAATI/4NRCgttlHs4/s640/P1020771.JPG)