[A4] [Biturbos4] Interior door handle broken? -> floppy drink holder

[Richard Hurt]

Phil,

My drink holder is not in the console but in the transmission tunnel/center
console.  :/  Oh well, thanks for breaking your car for me.  :)

Later...
  Richard

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Phil Yee <philter at myway.com> wrote:

> Richard,
>
> Last night I dug into my drink holder, to jog my memory . . . and I broke
> off the clips!! A little more glue, and it'll be fine again. I remember
> doing the same the first time around, years ago. Ah, the price to pay in
> order to add to the greater good of audifans.com . . .
>
> Removing the Drink Holder (2001 B5, top console has 3 buttons on left,
> hazzard in middle, drink holder on right).
> 1 - Carefully pry out the trim surrounding the top console. There are 6
> little metal clips that are bonded onto the console trim, and they are
> likely to break off due to the age of the parts, and the nature of interior
> plastic parts. This comes out straight, in the direction that the drink
> holder moves.
> 2 - Just above the drink holder (now exposed), there are two gray
> sheetmetal spring clips. Remove the clips and the drink holder should
> release freely.
> 3 - Glue the 6 clips back to the top console trim, because they're probably
> busted.
> 4 - Pop it all back in.
>
> -Phil
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Phil Yee" [philter at myway.com]
> Date: 03/24/2009 03:38 PM
> To: rnhurt at gmail.com, philter at myway.com
> Subject: Re: [A4] [Biturbos4] Interior door handle broken? -> floppy drink
> holder
>
> It's been a few years. I'll revisit it again tonight and let you know.
>
> One thing I did remember is that the spring rides with the carriage, and
> the T pocket is in back of the whole package. My orig email had it
> backwards.
>
> -Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Richard Hurt" [rnhurt at gmail.com]
> Date: 03/24/2009 03:10 PM
> To: "Phil Yee" <philter at myway.com>
> Subject: Re: [A4] [Biturbos4] Interior door handle broken? -> floppy drink
> holder
>
> Phil,
>
> Thanks for the info.  How did you get the package out in the first place?
> Is there some type of hook release or did you just pull it up?  Its good to
> know that
>
> Thanx!
>   Richard
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Phil Yee <philter at myway.com> wrote:
> Richard,
>
> This happened to me, on a B5 car.  When you pull out the drink holder
> entirely, its quite a long rectangular package.  In the back, there is a
> "constant force" spring, and it looks like long strip of metal rolled up.
>  The attachment point to the carriage (the whole mechanisam that slides back
> and forth) is pretty weak.  I was able to carefully take it apart and
> reattach it with a bit glue.  The end of the flat metal spring looks like a
> T, and that slides into a T shaped pocket.  I cant remember, but I think I
> added a thin strip of plastic (mylar sheet?) to stick over the T shaped
> pocket, in order to keep the spring in there - a bit of delicate d*cking
> around with it, but it wasnt too hard.  Good Luck.
>
> -Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:49:17 -0400
> From: Richard Hurt <rnhurt at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [A4] [Biturbos4] Interior door handle broken?
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> OK, while were fixing internal floppy things I have a question about the
> center console cup-holders on a 98.  A while back the spring broke and now
> I have to open/close them manually.  Its not hard to do but it is a pain in
> the rear.  Anyone have any experience R&Ring them?  Can I just super-glue
> whatever broke and get on with my drink life?
>
> Thanx!
>  Richard
>
>
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