How to: Fit Armrest With Correct Brackets

Do this at your own risk, I take no responsibility for you damaing your own vehicle or any other faults!
This is to be used as a rough guide to show whats involved, not a step by step guide of what YOU should be doing.


What you will need.
- Mk4 golf arm rest or similar with OEM brackets
- Brackets to hold arm rest / fitting kit

 

Arm rest and brackets should look somthing like this, mines leather...

 

Fitting kit and other brackets will look like this...

 

 

So to start off you want to remove the rear ash tray and remove the two torx screws, usually all torx 20 or 25.

 

Then you can remove the front ash tray and remove the other 3 torx screws.

 

Then unclip the gear selector gator and move to one side.

 

and unclip the surround not forgetting the light.

 

Then remove the small plastic section by the handbrake, they can be tricky but with some careful force they pop out.

 

If you lift the rear carefully the front part should unclip from the dashboard part, you might need to pull them apart but usually get enough room to remove the full centre console. Remember to unclip the cig lighter plug also.

Should be left with somthing like this...

 

Make sure the car is left in gear and the wheels chocked before removing the two bolts as it might slacken off yoru handbrake and result in the car rolling. so remove the two 13mm nuts like this

 

And put the fitting kit in place, i fitted it as a trial but found it easier to match up the OEM bracket and fit it while it was still off the car and fit them both together. The picture below is to just show you how the brackets go.

 

 

And fitted in place.

Its worth leaving a few of the easy accessible bolts slack for now as you might need to move the bracket before finally tightening.

 

 

I didnt have anything to cut the rear cup holder out to make room for the new brackets to ended up drilling it out

 

and out before giving it a little clean up.

 

and fitted back in place.

 

This is when its worth leaving a few bolts slack, mine sat in the middle and needed to be slightly more to the left.

 

So moved it over and gave them a tighten up through the gap with a spanner.

Then fitted the arm rest in place.

 

and folded up out the way.

 

I also put the part of the cup holder that got cut out inside the arm rest so ive still got a decent cup holder. its just wedged in place but tested it a few times now and its been fine! So just going to clean it up, possibly wrap it? and fix it in palce perminantly.