DIY: Sliding Center console
 

This DIY explains what has been a permanent fix (so far) for the issues of the center console lid sliding forward while braking.

Tools needed:
- very small flathead screwdriver (like one you might use for toy batteries and such)
- possibly a power saw, it really depends on how you choose to go about this, a hand saw might also work

Items needed:
- Hot glue (what I used, may upgrade later to stronger) or some other type of has drying adhesive.
- A flat rectanuglar piece of metal (for this, I had a little alluminium bracket thing I found in my garage, shaped like a box w/o a lid, I bent it and hammered it flat.)
*doesn't matter what metal, just whatever you choose, as long as it fits over the certain areas*


Step 1: Remove the lid to the console, do this by opening the console and lifting it as if you were getting into the little compartment with the cigarette lighter. Then on the underside of the lid you will see a little peg, push it in, then pull the part with the leather top( the part that actually slides) off. *should slide right off*

Step 2: Now you will have the underside exposed, which will reveal the problem. (if this is not broken on yours this DIY will do you no good!). The pictures don't really show this part that well, but there is a little plastic tab thing, that sticks up, shaped like a triangle on the part that is still connected to the car, not the part you removed. This part is broken, the tab stretches across with little slits on the side, allowing it to bend. the middle of it is broken causing the triangular part to be pushed down, which no longer allows it to stop the lid from sliding forward. THIS IS ONE PICTURE ONE, THE *RED* CIRCLE

Step 3: If in fact it is broken, heres what you do next. You will see a little tab that is locked into place. THE *GREEN* CIRCLE IN PICTURE ONE. with your screwdriver, carfully push that little tab in and down until it comes loose, and then carefully lift the lid gaining acess to the underside. That tab will let the bottom of the lid loose, VERY CAREFULLY put your screwdriver under that bottom and pry it up, going all the way around, starting driver's side, ending passenger side front. If all went well the bottom should now be off, leaving just the middle layer of the whole console. It should look like picture 2, ignore the silver piece, that is what you will be doing.

Step 4: so now you can see that original broken tab can be pushed back up into position and if you put the lid back on it works as it should (but not for long). So, this is where the metal and glue come in. What you need to do is this: As seen by the picture #3, you need to put your FLAT piece of metal over the broken tab on the underside, and have it stick out to solid plastic behind the tab. You will need to glue the part circled in red, this is the part behind the tab. Before you glue however, you need to make sure the tab is pushed up into the position to where it will lock the lid into place. Now once you've glued it and it is sturdy, slide the lid back on and see if it works. If it does, Good! you're done, reassemble the bottom and you're on your way! If not, that sucks! Just kidding, but my best bet would be that your metal was either not flat enough, or maybe too strong? the Alluminium has a bit of give, allowing the lid to lock and unlock.

If you have any questions of comments, please feel free to post them.

Oh, also, this is my first DIY to post, so it may not be quite as nice formatting, but I did the best I could....

Well after two weeks the cheap and easy fix of hot glue had busted the metal piece was not really doing what it was supposed to.

So today I went out and got some super glue, didn't really stick to the metal.
Then I got this "loctite no mess adhesive." So far I haven't even put the lid back on so I couldn't tell you how it works. It seems fairly strong, but I want it to completely dry before I start smashing that lid closed, and hoping it will support it.

my guess is that I will have the same result. I might eventually screw it in. Besides the whole glue issue, it works exactly as it should.

Created an account to say how helpful this post was. I looked everywhere online but finally found a guide pointing to a potential fix here.

For my car, I used super glue and put a tiny piece of foam under. Working so far.

JB Weld - an oragnometallic epoxy - will bond plastic and metal and many other dissimilar materials together. Although JB-Weld does not work well for certain stresses like shear force in the perpendicular direction to the weld.