Need Help!
#1
01-07-2015, 02:02 AM
*Didn't know where to post this* but I have a 06 g35 coupe and I have a problem with the ashtray door not opening. I use it for change and I guess I overflowed it. It's stuck so I took the part out from the dash and inspected it. There are a few screws on the back of it but removing them won't do nothing. I tried forcing it open but nothing happened. If I put more force on it, I'm afraid of breaking one of the clips or something along those lines. Please help me resolve my problem! 
#2
01-07-2015, 02:06 AM
I had the same thing happen to me a long time ago when I used to keep coins in there. Not to others... DON'T KEEP CHANGE IN YOUR ASHTRAY.
Can you get your ash tray door open at all... even just a little bit? In my case, I was able to get it open a smidgen, just not all the way. What I did was open it up as much as I could and then took a coat hanger and bent it into a weird shape so it could fit into the small opening and reach down behind the ashtray. There was a quarter stuck behind the ashtray that was lodged in and preventing it from opening. I was able to dislodge the quarter with the coat hanger and get it all the way open. Then I used a few other random poking type devices (toothpicks, screwdrivers, whatnot) to fish any change behind there into the appropriate angle so that I could grab them with tweezers and pull them out.
Since you apparently took the whole unit out, you should be able to use gravity to your advantage to get the coins out from behind, but you will need to dislodge them first. Maybe banging the thing with a jarring motion from your hand will set it free enough to get the door partially open?
Can you get your ash tray door open at all... even just a little bit? In my case, I was able to get it open a smidgen, just not all the way. What I did was open it up as much as I could and then took a coat hanger and bent it into a weird shape so it could fit into the small opening and reach down behind the ashtray. There was a quarter stuck behind the ashtray that was lodged in and preventing it from opening. I was able to dislodge the quarter with the coat hanger and get it all the way open. Then I used a few other random poking type devices (toothpicks, screwdrivers, whatnot) to fish any change behind there into the appropriate angle so that I could grab them with tweezers and pull them out.
Since you apparently took the whole unit out, you should be able to use gravity to your advantage to get the coins out from behind, but you will need to dislodge them first. Maybe banging the thing with a jarring motion from your hand will set it free enough to get the door partially open?
#3
01-07-2015, 02:19 AM
I had the same thing happen to me a long time ago when I used to keep coins in there. Not to others... DON'T KEEP CHANGE IN YOUR ASHTRAY. Can you get your ash tray door open at all... even just a little bit? In my case, I was able to get it open a smidgen, just not all the way. What I did was open it up as much as I could and then took a coat hanger and bent it into a weird shape so it could fit into the small opening and reach down behind the ashtray. There was a quarter stuck behind the ashtray that was lodged in and preventing it from opening. I was able to dislodge the quarter with the coat hanger and get it all the way open. Then I used a few other random poking type devices (toothpicks, screwdrivers, whatnot) to fish any change behind there into the appropriate angle so that I could grab them with tweezers and pull them out. Since you apparently took the whole unit out, you should be able to use gravity to your advantage to get the coins out from behind, but you will need to dislodge them first. Maybe banging the thing with a jarring motion from your hand will set it free enough to get the door partially open?
Last edited by erickLA; 01-07-2015 at 02:46 AM.
#4
01-07-2015, 08:30 PM