Hey all,

I know this is a long shot. After taking off the center console of my 2003 Z, I found these two parts on the floor. (Attachment added) For the life of me I don't know where they belong. At first I thought they might be associated with the sliding door from the storage area above the radio.

 

did you take out the waterfall or the whole center console?

 

I took out the whole center console (from the top gauges down including the manual stick bezel). Been looking through some console schematics and don't see these specific parts... These look like some kind of switch/button?

Mike

 

well if everything on your center console is working then just put the parts away on the side till you figure it out

 

they do not look familiar to any of those pieces or assemblies you removed. Are you the original owner? I would assume they are foreign to the car.

otherwise, search thru this.. i will let you have all the fun lol.

http://www.courtesyparts.com/350z-pa...5_824_834.html

 

No, I'm not the original owner. I just had a Pioneer receiver installed and the Bose receiver taken out by installer. I later had to take apart the center console to put in parking bypass and noticed the parts on the floor mat.

Yes, it appears that the parts don't belong to anything. Looked at them closer and noticed that the spring fits on to the end of the plastic rod. On the other end of the rod there are some indentations like it was being pressed by something else, which leads me to believe it's some kind of switch.

If anybody has a access to the lid 350Z LID-CLUSTER part# 68520. Can you check to see if it came out of there. Its the only thing I can think of that has springs and buttons.

 

if you ahve the dash door that flips up and is hinged at the very top most point, and opens like a house door...that may be a part of that mechanism.. i believe that door was hinged at the top of the cubby..

however, if your cubby door closes back into the dash "shell" at all when it opens up, ( it was a revision made early on in 2003) , then the mechanism is a spring on the drivers side, and little cam gears on each side.. it hinges on each side of the cubby...and those pieces are certainly NOT part of that scenario....I can tell you that for sure.

 

My cubby door closes/slides back into the dash.

Yes, I agree with you that at first glance it doesn't appear to be part of the cubby, but was double checking to see if there was possibility that it was a tensioner/switch hidden from view within the cubby and not shown in the schematic from Courtesy parts.

 

Nope