Dash Storage/Climate Panel Removal

MGH74

Active Member
Dec 17, 2017
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Does anyone know how the storage tray in front of the gear stick and/or the climate control panel is removed please?

I can’t quite figure it out.

Thanks
 

dodds_turbo

OEM+ member
Sep 4, 2016
113
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Edinburgh
I’d love to figure this one out too. I’ve had a quick try pulling/pushing it and looking for screws/tabs but nothing too obvious.

If it’s easily removable then repositioning the USB/MDI from the glovebox is possible, and also retrofitting the wireless charging cubby box from the Areca.
 

MGH74

Active Member
Dec 17, 2017
47
4
There is play/move,ent at the top, but seems it is fixed/held somehow at the sides near the bottom.
Will keep looking, but hopefully someone on here has done it.
I wanted to look at wireless charging too.
 

DEAN0

Old Git
Feb 1, 2006
5,288
300
Preston - UK
There is play/move,ent at the top, but seems it is fixed/held somehow at the sides near the bottom.
Will keep looking, but hopefully someone on here has done it.
I wanted to look at wireless charging too.

There are six clips holding the climate control panel in.

2 at the top
2 at the bottom
2 at the sides

You need to use trim removal tools to prise the panel away then the whole unit
comes towards you.
 

dodds_turbo

OEM+ member
Sep 4, 2016
113
2
Edinburgh
Looks like it should be simply. Definitely not easy though. Do you have any trim removal tools, or something similar and non-marking?

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EFF11

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Jun 16, 2016
138
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The storage box has two spring clips on the back, facing backwards. If you enlarge the second image posted by dodds turbo you can just make out a raised lip on the end of tool 3370 pushed up behind the bezel of the storage tray. The reason for removing the gear lever trim is to enable you to push the tool handle down to prise the unit out backwards.

I used a 6-inch wrecking tool, suitably padded, to get mine out. Like so many other panels on the Leon, it can take some force to remove it. Work on one side and then the other to gradually prise it out.
 

BT3469

Active Member
Dec 12, 2016
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St Neots
Why is my cubby hole box different? 2015-64 plate FR. Mines doesn’t have a flap that folds over to cover the hole? Mines open all the time ?


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robby71

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Sep 3, 2005
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Yorkshire, UK
Why is my cubby hole box different? 2015-64 plate FR. Mines doesn’t have a flap that folds over to cover the hole? Mines open all the time ?


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Mines the same as yours - has the USB and AUX port in there , think it changed from the covered slot on later cars
 

BT3469

Active Member
Dec 12, 2016
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St Neots
Yeah was about to agree, no USB port and mines open with no flap? Maybe 3 versions ? Flap, no flap no usb, no flap with usb ?


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Conal

Active Member
Sep 10, 2014
154
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When I bought my ST FR in October ‘14 I had to opt to get the flap. I’m pretty sure that it came as part of the storage pack which also included closed boxes under each front seat.
Conal
 

dephead2004

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Aug 3, 2013
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Yeah was about to agree, no USB port and mines open with no flap? Maybe 3 versions ? Flap, no flap no usb, no flap with usb ?


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That's the correct history. I have a flap but no connectors. Quite early on the flap was deleted, then came the connectors out of the cubby
 

dieselface

Active Member
Jul 1, 2010
647
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As dephead says. Flaps were breaking a bit too although mine never had any issues.

MY13 - Flap
MY14 - Flap
MY15 - No Flap (deleted)
MY16 - No Flap + 1 USB
MY17 - No Flap + 1 USB [Until week 44]
MY17.5 - No Flap + 2 USB [Week 45 onwards - Facelift SOP]
MY18.5 - No Flap + 2 USB + 2 Rear [Week 45 onwards - Media system plus only]
 
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