Center Console Removal?

[RichSNJ]

I just watched a video on removing the center console on the WK2, and you didn't even need tools to get it detached, you just pull on the clips and up it comes. Has anybody tried removing a WL center console yet? Do you just pull up and it comes out and then you just have to disconnect the cables?

I'd really like to try and cover up the piano plastic with black leather and getting it out to scope the job is the first step...

 

[Bbiggers340]

I want to remove the center console and figure out where all the AC/Heat is leaking out underneath it.

 

[Dave180]

The two side panels your knee might bump into are held with clips as are most of the rest of them.

 

[Sarge]

My dealer took mine all apart last winter and couldn't find any reason for it. I suspect the leak might be elsewhere, but is being directed into the center console.

The only other thing I could think to do is wrap it with some fireproof adhesive backed insulation. I don't intend to have mine by December, and Jeep tech support had no solutions either. I think the inside of my console was around 160 degrees... what a joke. I guess it's a 'soup warmer' I swear to god I'm going to make a cutout in mine and put a ladle in it.

 

[Jake22]

I'd like to cover the piano plastic with leather

outstanding idea

 

[Sarge]

I want to remove the center console and figure out where all the AC/Heat is leaking out underneath it.

My dealer tore mine apart last winter. they found the center vent duct disconnected, but reconnecting it has had almost no effect on the temps that I can tell. 117F phone charger, 135F cupholders, 165F cubby.

My floor vent for the 2nd row under the front pass seat was not connected either. Just laying there, clipped into nothing. And my HVAC is sometimes too loud for phone calls even on level 1 fan speed. Cold air wafting around in the winter, defrost only blows warm when 'max def' button pushed, etc. Super messed up. No solutions.

 

[Sarge]

I just watched a video on removing the center console on the WK2, and you didn't even need tools to get it detached, you just pull on the clips and up it comes. Has anybody tried removing a WL center console yet? Do you just pull up and it comes out and then you just have to disconnect the cables?

I'd really like to try and cover up the piano plastic with black leather and getting it out to scope the job is the first step...

That's not a bad idea, but a lot of it has lights under it, (ride height adjustment, etc?). have you looked for any really good clear wrap, like PPF? It would probably scratch too, but easy to replace/buff out?

 

[Jake22]

HVAC too loud for phone calls on level 1 fan speed. Cold air wafting around in the winter, defrost only blows warm when 'max def' button pushed, etc. Super messed up.

way beyond reasonable tolerability 😖

 

[Sarge]

The two side panels your knee might bump into are held with clips as are most of the rest of them.

Which way do you pull to release them?

 

[Sarge]

way beyond reasonable tolerability 😖

It is, when it's -10F, the windows will only defog on blast furnace mode, and if you put it on regular defrost the air blows cool and not fast, regardless of fan on max speed temp set 90 degrees above the outside temp, there's cold air coming out of the footwells, so you have to put it back on blast furnace or you can't see, at which point you can't take client phone calls because you had to put the windows down because otherwise it's 120F inside from the blast furnace, and there's snow coming in the windows. None of the three dozen or more vehicles I've ridden in dating back to cars from the 50's were like this. The car is a bigger troll than you, even.

 

[RichSNJ]

That's not a bad idea, but a lot of it has lights under it, (ride height adjustment, etc?). have you looked for any really good clear wrap, like PPF? It would probably scratch too, but easy to replace/buff out?

I'm not planning to touch that panel, I'm most interested in the spring loaded door above the wireless charger and the small strip in front of the cup holders - that's where my finger prints always seem to be... If I go forward I'll probably also do the spring loaded cup holder door too, but that's pretty much always open, so I'd never see it.

I'd really like to buy the console pieces so that I could work on it outside of the car, because I imagine that doing it well will require me to sand the parts I'm trying to cover down and possible shave a bit off the edges, and I'd rather not do that to my actual parts until I know it's going to work. But while I've found several pieces of console for sale on mopar's site, I haven't found what appears to be what I have in mine...

 

[Sarge]

That's a lot of work. On mine, the door over the charger is always open b/c I have to use cords to connect my phone (wireless CarPlay rarely connects), and the cupholder cover is always open because it's been defective forever and won't stay closed. On the upside, NO fingerprints on those areas for me.