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Moss Motors Leather Door Armrest

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2	16233	10/28/2010

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Description:	If you spend any time at all in your Mini, you know that the door armrests, if you can call them that, are uncomfortable and inadequate. You don’t notice as the driver when you are on a twisty road that requires you to be ‘up on the wheel’, but take a leisurely drive and you just can’t get comfortable. The base of our armrest is vacuum molded ABS that is lightweight but strong. A hand pull is recessed into the armrest to provide easy door closing. A luxurious black leather cover is then added. Sold as a pair and no drilling or modifications are necessary to your Mini to fit.
Keywords:	Moss Motors Armrest Door
Web site:	www.mossmini.com

Author

OzMini
2nd Gear

Registered: June 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 90

Review Date: 5/2/2006

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 5

Pros:	Something to hang on to or rest your arm
Cons:	Squeeks, moves, strap can break free

It was a welcome addition for me and provides the passenger a place to brace themselves too! However I found that the arm rest will shift a bit and so added some double sided tape at the touch points to help anchor it and stop the squeeking. Meanwhile while I had tried to strap it tightly the plastic slot broke free. Probably my fault, but take care when you tighten. If it does happen, try creating a replacement "slot" with a plastic tie-down strap. It works fine - perhaps better.

What would make the product better?
1. Pre-mounted with double sided tape or at least a moulding to prevent shifting around.
2. Longer - to reach the whole distance to the vertical arm.
3. Perhaps just a little narrower to avoid any possibility of interference with the seat sliding forward.

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ellcapitan
4th Gear

Registered: January 2010
Location: Beacon, NY
Posts: 331

Review Date: 10/28/2010

Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 3

Pros:	Serves its purpose well...on the driver-side...when it stays in place.
Cons:	Looks cheap. Feels cheap. Tendancy to shift/sag. Interferes with seat.

As above, the thin plastic slots on mine broke almost immediately as well. Also as above, carefully drilled new holes in the remaining plastic area and used ty-wraps to good effect.

On mine, the stitching is slightly, but noticeably, uneven. One armrest actually looks a bit different than the other. This seems to give them a cheap look. This is amplified by the fact that they are in my cloth-interior car, and they really don't match visually, sticking out like a sore thumb.

Functionally, once you get used to them protruding in an area where wiggle-room is already tight, they actually work well as LIGHT DUTY armrests. On the driver side, I've learned to only use the weight of my arm on it. If you lean on it at all, it will sag, necessitating frequent and annoying readjustments...no matter how tight you have it strapped on. The problem is, of course, the passenger side, where your guests don't think twice about leaning all their weight into the armrest, making it sag every time and leaving it that way...too embarrassed to admit it happened, and me being too embarrassed to warn them about it beforehand.

But the worst thing is with back seat passengers. When they get out and leave the seat folded forward (as many ppl reasonably do, to facilitate easy re-entry), the armrest interferes with the seatback, causing the door to bounce back open! This, of course, is unacceptable.

Since it is unreasonable to instruct every passenger not to lean on the flimsy armrest, and not to leave the seat folded forward, I've resolved to remove the passenger side armrest entirely. Of couse, the problem then is that it leaves indentations in the padded surface of the factory armrest it was attached to!

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