Centre console - removal and refitting

Bodywork / Centre console - removal and refitting

1 Pull the small black knobs from the heater control levers.

2 Extract the screws from both sides of the heater control panel, remove the panel. As the panel is withdrawn, disconnect the leads from the cigar lighter and take care not to damage the fibre optics.

3 From inside the glove box, prise out the lid stop block. Insert a screwdriver in the hole left by its removal and unscrew the console fixing screw (photo).

21.3 Removing screw (glovebox side) from centre console

4 Reach up behind the facia panel on the side opposite to the glove box and unscrew the remaining console fixing screw.

5 Withdraw the console downwards and disconnect the fibre optics from their source.

6 Refitting is a reversal of removal.