Member Since: 15 Apr 2008
Location: Darwen Lancs
Posts: 56
Hi, as Weedyapl says there is no need to dismantle anything to get the ash tray carrier out so that you can remove the spring that has dropped behind. Google LTB00313 which explains how to do it. I did mine today. It's a bit fiddly but quicker than dismantling the dash. I managed to replace the spring. A bit of plastic that holds it had broken but there was enough left to hold the spring as long as it didn't move sideways. I used a piece of double sided carpet tape to stop it moving.
If you want to replace the whole unit then I guess you will have to do some dismantling.
Geoff.
3rd Nov 2016 9:10 pm
StoneCircle
Member Since: 17 Jul 2016
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 54
When mine stuck I wimped out and bought the assembly from Land Rover - about £55 from memory - but the ash tray not closing was messing with my OCD
4th Nov 2016 11:18 am
thartek
Member Since: 05 Dec 2014
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 7
How the Ashtray works
I'll go look for pictures I MAY have taken, but I'll try and describe it...
Theres a plastic pin on the bottom of the sliding piece. The pin slides in a channel on a moving piece. The channel is such that it accounts for the movement of the tray, and the channel has the ability to rock left and right.
So as the pin slides back, it takes the right path, hits the end, and as the spring pulls the tray forward a little bit, the pin falls into a little catch on the channel. When you push the tray in again, the pin slides back, hits a triangle, and is forced left down the return channel as the tray extends out.
My pin broke so I drilled and super glued in a bit of metal, spent some time filing it down to slide better in the channel, and make sure the depth was right.
Here's a quick MS Paint drawing of how it works if you want to try and replace it too. (I'm going off memory a couple months ago so it probably looks a bit different)
7th Nov 2016 6:57 pm
Antjp
Member Since: 09 Aug 2013
Location: Warringon
Posts: 346
This has happened to mine tonight. How annoying. I kept it shut temporary with a fuel receipt rolled up at the bottom. I'll have a look at it later.
24th Dec 2018 6:40 am
kimmea
Member Since: 30 Nov 2015
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 290
Weedyapl wrote:
If your happy with a push pull there is no need to take out the centre console if its the spring stopping it closing. Just pull the ashtray completely out then pull the holder out all way. Then push the runner down so it pops out and out the way.
Then orientate the spring with a magnetic tip flathead screwdriver so it's horizontal and the tips end is facing you pointing upwards. This takes about 2-3 minutes bit fiddly but once you have done that use nose pliers to grab the end and pull.
It will unravel to about 2-3" then quickly grab that spring with your other hand and yank. I simply refuse to take a centre console/dash apart for a mere bloody spring which i could see will unravel.
How exactly did you get the holder out as mine wont budge...?
6th Feb 2019 2:27 pm
Coo
Member Since: 01 Jun 2015
Location: Fife, Scotland
Posts: 284
After removing ashtray, pinch the sides of carrier then pull out...
18th Feb 2019 2:46 pm
PeteJJ
Member Since: 24 Aug 2015
Location: Devon
Posts: 49
Apologies for resurrecting an old post but ........
I have tried and tried and there is no way I can get the carrier out.
It sounds so easy in the LR procedure .....'Using suitable tools, gently press against the ashtray carrier fixing clips and remove the ashtray carrier.(Figure 2)' .......
I must be doing something wrong or being a bit gentle with it! Can anybody help! Thanks.
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spring with your other hand and yank. I simply refuse to take a centre console/dash apart for a mere bloody spring which i could see will unravel.
