Addressing fall out from repair of MMI screen mechanism
 

I repaired the MMI screen mechanism (replace broken plastic cogs with metal ones) a good few months a ago now and when I put it all back together it didn't all go back together perfectly...

Those imperfections have been doing my head in ever since and I'd like to have a go at sorting them out. I was just wondering if anybody could offer some advice to help me to do so.

Basically, two problems:

1. When I went to reinstall the the chrome section of the dash immediately underneath the MMI screen, the section which has the card tray attached, I couldn't reconnect the power cable which plugs into the back of the card tray which powers the red light behind symbol for the card tray. There was absolutely no slack on the power cable so it was impossible to plug it into the back of the card tray before pushing the whole thing back into place. So the red light behind the symbol for the card tray isn't working. I'd like to sort it out but have absolutely no idea how. Any ideas???

2. Following the repair to the mechanism, the MMI screen pops up and down really nicely and has worked faultlessly ever since, but the only disappointing thing is that when it closes the edge of the wood trim which covers the MMI screen when it's in the down position doesn't sit flush with the edge of the wood trim immediately underneath the vents which are on either side. It's approximately 5mm short of where it should be if that makes any sense. Again, I'd like to sort it out but have absolutely no idea how. Any ideas???

It's a big job for me to take it all apart again to address these 2 problems which some might see as minor and not really worth the bother, but I'd like to have a go... like I said, they're doing my head in.

Difficult to visualise what your doing but the card/coin tray has trim that's removeable without messing about with wires, if you open the coin tray then
push the trim to the left it will unclip from the tray allowing you to remove the rest of the belt line trim

Yeah, I didn't unclip the trim on the card holder, I couldn't work out how to do it so when I removed the belt line time as you call it the entrire card tray came with it. There's a power cable that connects into the back of that which came away and that's what I can't reconnect... I don't think there's anyway of sorting that out now. Maybe I'll just have to forget about it.

I've attached a photo of the MMI screen trim which isn't lining up correctly. Any thoughts on that?

When I bought my A8, the coin tray didn't light up.
I removed it and couldn't find the cable - so I made a new one and piggy backed it from the vent illumination. Fast forward a couple of years I had to remove the glovebox to upgrade the CAN Gateway and found the cable had fallen right down so cable-tied it up back where it should be.
Removing the glovebox is not a big job. It takes 10 minutes with the instructions.

I'm guessing that if you can move your LCD actuator one tooth along its cog, this will sort it

How about extending the cable to give yourself enough length to get it in.

Yeah, it looks like it's a tooth or two out. Don't really fancy taking the whole thing apart again but might give it a go.

The cable would definitely need extending if I were to get it in. I just wouldn't know how to do that.

I thought this morning about possibly getting in through the glove box. Does anybody have any instructions on how to remove the glove box? I wouldn't mind giving that a go

Have a look at my reverse camera retrofit thread its in there how to remove the glove box

Got it, thanks! Will have to get hold of radio removal tool T10057.

Ah yes - those were the instructions I used thanks+++

Just an update... fixed the problem with the coin tray light using the instructions for removal of the glove box +++

Thanks for the assistance!

Still debating whether to bother sorting the MMI screen trim gap out!