Armrest Issues need help
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Melting Slicks
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Armrest Issues need help
Today as I was working on muy car I opened the armrest I turned around to wipe the inside of the windsheild and I leaned on the catch for the arm rest is down. I saw the little arrow pointing forward so I tried to get it up it wouldn't come up so I tried my key. Now it is half way up and I can't get it up or down. Can you h3lp?
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Proofreading has become a lost skill. I know because I, too, have been guilty of failing to proofread my own work.
Clearly, “I leaned on the catch for the arm rest is down” needs more than a little editing. I’d say we’re talking about the center console lid, but would have to take a closer look at the latching to ponder the issue.
Clearly, “I leaned on the catch for the arm rest is down” needs more than a little editing. I’d say we’re talking about the center console lid, but would have to take a closer look at the latching to ponder the issue.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Franklin IN
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Yeah. A google search of ‘C5 Corvette console latch’ quickly shows them available from Zip, Top Flight, and others. Even better, it leads to a Froggy YouTube on replacing the latch, and a 2014 thread on this forum where E.T., in posts 5 and 10, indicates that if the pawl is pushed down simply lifting or pushing it may put it right.
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Good luck - I had that happen too and luckily was able to get it to work again by prying up on the pawl.
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