How I spent yesterday morning....

JRS

JRS

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That would be the centre console of my mate's Bentley Mulsanne, now no longer entirely attached to the car. We need the seat memory and rear window isolation switches out (along with the wooden panels so they can be painted) to fix them, and my patience with myself over putting the job off finally snapped. And I can assure you that you have no idea just what a pain in the rear getting the console out is on one of these things....

The job was made much easier by a previous owner of the car/mechanic who worked on it leaving the grub screw out of one of the cabin vent control knobs, and just sticking the control knob back on with glue. Oh, sorry....I don't mean easier do I? I mean bloody annoying. If I'd have been able to get hold of whichever pillock did that yesterday I'd be up in court facing a murder charge.

Next up - label up that snake-bundle of wires back there so we know where everything goes back to, haul the console completely out of the car and dismantle it, repair/replace the duff switches, get all the wood off the dashboard and console to get it painted piano black, throw the whole thing back together with shiny new screws of the correct size. Sounds easy if I type it fast :(:D After that, we've just got the remaining paint and leather issues to sort and the car will be pretty much as perfect as a 21-year old car can be without going to the trouble of a full restoration.
 
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