Ripping the dash apart in search of a parking permit.

Last week Mrs MJ somehow got her work parking permit to slide through a tiny gap in the dashboard, and disappear into its depths. Without the permit, she is not able to park at work, and would face a pretty hefty fine if she did. So, today I decided to see if I coud find it.

After watching countless youtube videos of the wrong model car's dashboard being taken apart, I decided to just give it a go, and hope I dont break anything. I fiddled around the cover strips by the gearshift, trying to see which end would come off first, and then worked my way up to the top. Nothing would budge. The videos of similar vehicles were all wrong!!

Then one of the coverstrips gave way just a little bit, and i n went the big screwdriver. Pop! The clips all started coming off, and before long I had both sides off.

Once those were off, out came the air vents, so I could have a look to see if the parking permit was anywhere in sight.

Deep behind those air ducts at the top was a tiny white corner of something. I slid my hand in through the gap, and managed to just get the smallest of grips onto the corner, and slid it out from behind the duct. Got it!!!

Amazingly, all this took me little more than 5 minutes tontake apart and put back together. Everything just clips together like a puzzle, not like the old days where everything was bolted or screwed into a metal frame. At least I now know I'll be able to update my radio to something a little more modern, with bluetooth, quite easily now.

I'm not much of a handyman, but I'll take being able to retrieve the permit, and put everything back without anything left over as a win!!

You'll never know what you can do unless you try it at least once.

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