PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post

dmorrison · #12 04-05-2004, 12:39 AM

Installing the center console.

1. Clean and prepare the center console for installation, repair any broken cross members. Also clean the center tunnel area, you would be surprised at the amount of crud that collects there.
2. Install the center console with or without the carpet sections installed.
3. Slide the console down over the tunnel and center section of the lower dash. You must tilt the console, rear section high to get it under the dash center section, and under the 2 screw tabs at the top front area that the front of the console is screwed to.
4. Slide the sides down past all the seat hardware on both sides.
5. Screw the front top of the console into the dash using the 2 tabs attached to the dash.
6. Screw the rear center screw into the tunnel. The dash is now secure.
7. If you chose to not install the carpet with the console you now need to slip them into position and clip them to the console.
8. Pull all wire harnesses out through the appropriate hole.
9. Install the top panel switches into the top panel
10. Connect the harnesses for the top panel to the appropriate switches. Don’t forget the light fiberoptics. Antenna control, rear windshield wiper and washer (TD), rear defrost and rear light switches.
11. Install the top panel by sliding the top in first and snapping in the bottom.
12. Move to the center AC control section. Install the AC panel onto the black plastic panel with the 3 required screws
13. Organize all wires, install the left harness, the 4 light sockets, then the right harness onto the AC control unit.
14. Bolt the AC control panel to the center console.
15. Snap the wood onto the center AC panel.
16. Install the radio as per your individual requirements
17. Install the shift gate unit with the 3 required bolts. And of course a new bulb.
18. Arrange the wire harnesses for the window switch section.
19. While holding the center section 90 degrees to the installed position , next to the driver seat, install the left side connectors to the switches then the center section and finally the right side connections. I usually go front to rear, left to right.
20. Install the center shift wood trim panel by inserting the rear pin and then sliding it forward until positioned correctly.
21. Install the ashtray housing and connect the wire harness prior to installing. Mount with the 2 screws. Install the ashtry.
22. Install the shift knob.
23. Install the front carpets. Both sets
24. Install the drive and passenger under dash panels.

The car should now look like a car again.

I realize that I did not post the rest of the info so here it is. It is a big job and someone may need this, hopefully not me, sometime. This was my step by step method of doing the job. Any additions would be of course helpful.

It was a big job and sometimes a pain when you have to remove a section because of something you realized you forgot.

Hope this helps you guys out there.

Dave