Installed the console vault, went in pretty easily. Now to figure out how best to stash some change for the meters since you lose the coin tray.
Installed a new AEM dry air filter. Cleaned out the air box and the inside of the snorkel piece with the circular clamp around it. Went in with no problems.
Thought I'd install a new K&N Cabin Air Filter, the YouTube videos made it look pretty easy. Not for me.
- Released the tension cord and it shoots back into the recesses
OK, deal with it later, how bad can it be, right?
- Released the two tabs to drop the box lid down
- As I was lowering the box lid I hear a snap ... can't be good. Try to realign the lid to see if it still works. NO. That infamous solid right ring is split, that was the "snap."
- Gave up on trying to open up the Cabin Air Filter box, I was too distressed about the broken glove box hinge
- Frantically look online to see if I am doomed with the box lid, and noted the price for a replacement but one post said the box will work even with a broken ring on the right
- The elusive tension cord is hiding. Takes a flashlight, slim jim (car burglary tool) and a dental pick to coax it out. Just as I'm trying to line up the trapezoid fitting and button, it lives up to its name "tension" cord and pulls out of my fingers back into the cave. After three attempts I get it back in.
- By opening the "solid" right ring at the split I get it over and around the pin it pivots on but ... WILL IT WORK?
- Yea, lucked out. In disbelief I tried the glove box door a bunch of times before I was sure it was working.
So, two out of three things I did to my Ex worked out today. I'm going to "soften" the inside of the vault so it won't scratch guns, cameras, etc.
