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Offline Peeair

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Arm rest indentation!
« on: 25 December 2013, 19:21 »
OK here's one for you.

I drove the car for about 4 hours yesterday with my elbow resting on the door's armrest and noticed after the journey there was an indentation in the armrest that seems to be a permanent feature now!  :angry:

I've never seen anything like this in any other car! Is VW foam particularly soft, or some kind of memory foam?
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Re: Arm rest indentation!
« Reply #1 on: 29 December 2013, 14:55 »
Not had your problem but I found the 'arm rest' was a little low and hard for my liking so I came up with this.  I cut down an unused PC keyboard wrist rest I had which just happened to be Black with a red top - so sympathetic colours to the GTi - and so far it has stayed attached just by sticking a strip of the hard half of Velcro to the underside of the wrist rest and pushing it down onto the arm rest.

Gives me just the right height increase and a softer rest for my elbow.




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Re: Arm rest indentation!
« Reply #2 on: 29 December 2013, 17:33 »
Arms longer than a monkey's or are you steering with your knees?  :whistle:
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Re: Arm rest indentation!
« Reply #3 on: 29 December 2013, 19:11 »
Not had your problem but I found the 'arm rest' was a little low and hard for my liking so I came up with this.  I cut down an unused PC keyboard wrist rest I had which just happened to be Black with a red top - so sympathetic colours to the GTi - and so far it has stayed attached just by sticking a strip of the hard half of Velcro to the underside of the wrist rest and pushing it down onto the arm rest.

Gives me just the right height increase and a softer rest for my elbow.





Thanks for taking the time to reply, it seems like a good solution to protect the armrest. If I can get it fixed I'll give this one a try in the future.
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Re: Arm rest indentation!
« Reply #4 on: 30 December 2013, 17:40 »
Ermmm a good solution for some, but honestly...... just get the armrest replaced under warranty.
Having a extra pad stuck on like that looks rather awful  :sad:
Perhaps get a custom armrest section made for a specialist?

Shouldnt be too difficult:-

order new armrest door car
de-cloth
add new foam
re-cloth and stitch
swap with existing one

When you come to sell the car you still have the original plus a modified version?

 :smiley:
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Re: Arm rest indentation!
« Reply #5 on: 30 December 2013, 17:47 »
Is that a cut-down flip-flop?  :grin:
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Re: Arm rest indentation!
« Reply #6 on: 30 December 2013, 18:16 »
Definitely the daftest looking "mod" I've seen on here in a while!
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Re: Arm rest indentation!
« Reply #7 on: 30 December 2013, 21:24 »
Ermmm a good solution for some, but honestly...... just get the armrest replaced under warranty.
Having a extra pad stuck on like that looks rather awful  :sad:
Perhaps get a custom armrest section made for a specialist?

Shouldnt be too difficult:-

order new armrest door car
de-cloth
add new foam
re-cloth and stitch
swap with existing one

When you come to sell the car you still have the original plus a modified version?

 :smiley:

Would this be something VW would be willing to replace under warranty?
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Re: Arm rest indentation!
« Reply #8 on: 30 December 2013, 22:21 »
If your dealership has common sense yet. You've not had the car long at all and it shouldn't act like it's had a elbow on the armrest for 100k miles.
I would push for a replacement armrest door card.
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Re: Arm rest indentation!
« Reply #9 on: 20 January 2014, 21:27 »
If your dealership has common sense yet. You've not had the car long at all and it shouldn't act like it's had a elbow on the armrest for 100k miles.
I would push for a replacement armrest door card.

Went into the dealers tonight and they are going to try and replace the armrest under warranty! :smiley:
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