Transmission tunnel trim bracket
 

You know the one - that little bracket that sticks out from the transmission tunnel trim and attaches to to the unit that holds the handbook.

Or, if like many of us, you don't know it because it snapped off ages ago!

Well, mine got broken off by the garage and, as the carpet on that piece of trim just wouldn't come clean, I got a replacement from our sponsors. I cleaned it up and then set about a more durable replacement bracket, which was very easy indeed.

Follow these steps and the photos below:

1. Get an 'L' shaped bracket from your local hardware store
2. Cut about a centimetre off one of the arms of the bracket and enlarge the hole at the end of the other arm
3. Attach one of those threaded clips (I'm sure they have a name, but I don't know what it is) and find a bolt that fits it. It's the wrong way up in my photos!
4. Mix up some Araldite (other 2-part adhesives are available) and apply to the inside of the trim panel
5. Push the short end of the 'L' shaped bracket through the hole in the trim where the old plastic bracket used to be
6. Add more Araldite and clamp it.
7. A day or two later, remove the handbook unit, fit the trim panel and refit the handbook unit- with a very sturdy left hand bracket!
8. And, in my case, admire clean carpet panel!

Jim, I'm sure I did something similar as my knee panel was missing multiple fixings. Good solution and very well documented. +++

Edit: And indeed I did, in a thread contributed to by your good self, this was my solution - fixed to the ventilation duct (not the side panel). http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showpost....5&postcount=13
(Sorry about the lack of detail and poor picture but this was secondary to the main problem of the missing upper fixing in this thread; http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=9682 )

Speed Clips are the things you referred to and I decided to use the ventilation duct as it was sturdier and especially because it meant removing the side panel would be easier in future.

And as I mentioned earlier in that thread:
So I didn't even need to buy a bracket.