I am still new to the Audi crowd but I have been loving my B5 S4 since I picked it up last month.

Anyway I usually drive with the armrest up as I can shift quicker out of the way. Well I had a passenger last week and they put some loose change in the top of the armrest compartment. I flipped it up and out of the way when I got in the car so I could shift smooth and take some corners and when I got home and put it down I couldnt open the armrest compartment more than 2 inches!!

Turns out the change fell back when I flipped it up and then the sharp corners lodged dimes and quarters behind the hinges.

That sucked.
Took me two days metal pointy things, and some sharp corners to get them to flip back out.

But now I am wondering if I got them all or if there are stragglers still in there.

I can open it about 80 degrees wide but not 90 degrees without putting pressure and getting a squeaking sound.

Is that normal? Is 80 degrees the norm? or should it open 90 degrees no problem no squeaking? I am just wondering if a dime or something is still stuck back there.

Thanks and dont put change in your armrest and flip it up... I'm warning you!

 

man i know i put change in and flipped it up a few months ago and still havent got the change out. its realy pissing me off. good thing i dont use the arm rest that much

 

it should open 90 deg. change in the b5=death

 

yep I had the same damn problem didnt open that bitch for months

 

i had a box of 200 thumb tacks one time in there and they all spilled out but mine opend fine it just wouldnt close,
so i just kept slammin it shut or tryin to and eventually they plastic got busted off the thumbtacks and just had to do some vacumming

 

LoL

Thanks guys, Its good to know that we are in this together.

I agree with Jeff

B5+Change=Death

 

lol i have a similar story but this one is for my mini flash light for when i go flying at night . i have different lenses (red and green) for it that i threw in there..and when i put it up they got stuck wehre the hinges are and for a long time it was a bitch to open.

 

lmao. i did that the DAY i got my car. now i keep all my change in the litle ash tray behind the armrest. its a little akward to reach back there to get change when ur at a drivethrough or whatnot, but it beats the heck out of not being able to open ur god dam% armrest.

 

same thing happened to chrispaay but after he got in his accident It was fixed.... lol accident knocked it out...

 

Damn, Compared to the arm rests I have had in previous cars, the Audi ones are small.

Other than that, I never put change in one, I dropped some changed under the seat and now it's stuck under the rail. [X(]
But I put my coins in that little mini card drawer compartment.