{"id":4905,"date":"2015-08-26T01:08:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T01:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2015-08-13T01:10:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T01:10:01","slug":"my-car-mod-6-opening-the-armrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/my-car-mod-6-opening-the-armrest\/","title":{"rendered":"My Car: Mod #6 &#8211; Opening the Armrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can I get an amen that it&#8217;s ridiculous that we have to do this ourselves? Dealers should be doing it as an extra you&#8217;re welcome. It&#8217;s really crazy these things are locked! The Volkswagen MK7 Golf R arrives from the factory with the armrest completely locked. Luckily, a 4MM Torx screw driver and you&#8217;re getting quite a bit of storage space back in your life.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Zed4Me for the video guide<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Opening Armrest Cubby- DIY US Golf R MK7\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3BYs-NLrw5k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View '2016 MK7 Golf R - Armest Opened' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/20498811866\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"2016 MK7 Golf R - Armest Opened\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5640\/20498811866_2113e8a331_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2016 MK7 Golf R - Armest Opened\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This took all of 5 minutes to complete! Yes, I know it\u2019s just an open arm rest but it is technically a modification you have to do yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can I get an amen that it&#8217;s ridiculous that we have to do this ourselves? Dealers should be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-31T00:03:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"7cfb825e-0116-460d-8010-a918da19ccca","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-31T00:03:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AfPuCXgEWRg2AEKkY2hnMyg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-my-car","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1h7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5006,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/my-car-mod-13-mk7-european-spec-volkswagen-led-tailights\/","url_meta":{"origin":4905,"position":0},"title":"My Car: Mod #13 \u2013 MK7 European Spec Volkswagen LED Tailights","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Before I go over this, the text below on these mods are being posted to an online Volkswagen community so I make a few assumptions when talking about the modifications to my 2016 Volkswagen Golf R. 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