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I found that it's a perfect hidey hole for a Kel Tec PF-9. But of course that's legal here in Tennessee. Don't try this at home if your in my previous home state of CA!
Is a wonderful fit for my radar detecter. I put one of those little can huggies over it that looks like a Hawaiian t-shirt. We joke when I take it out that I'm taking my buddy out of his room and undressing him.
"The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems" by Coleridge which is a palm-sized softcover, a MINI pen, assorted notes are in my secret compartment.
Officially called the dashboard storage compartment, the so-called secret compartment (which sounds sexier anyway) doesn't lock. To open it you merely push the dash in front of the passenger's seat. So I've booby-trapped mine with an attack albatross.
It must be a later than 2003 MINI item as I wasted a half hour going through my owners manual looking for this supposed compartment to not find anything about it in the manual. And no amount of pushing on the dash did a darn thing. Bummer for us older MINI owners. I was hopeful we had something cool like that also.