don't do either.

Simple. Buy a new piece of carpet form phil at partsshop here, then take the phone out, its 3 screws and one simple cable, which unclips froma socket. put the new carpet in, and leave the phone out.

Thats what I did.

Of course I later replaced the whole console with a black console.

To remove it, you have to take allt he wood off the center console, remove the phone and the carpet, remove the screw att he back, under the console wood there are two screws, and you have to remove the AC wood, radio, and all the switches too.

you will also have to remove the center AC vent.

After that, you will see with everything out, two nuts at the bottom side of the top of the ocnsole. these you only have to loosen a little.

Then you also have to remove the armrest.

After that, you can pretty much pull the console out and pop the new one in.

Its not that hard to do, but if you don't feel confident workign with tools and dismantling your entire center console, I would just do what I said at the beginning of this post.

Alon

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