2007 mercury grand marquis arm rest removal and flip do this is the bottom of your armrest is in good condition, simply flip it upside down with this method shown.
Thank you for making this video. To add to your help, I'll share what I did. I purchased a new leather cover off Ebay for $45. To install it, I used a kitchen can trash bag and used a shop vac to suck the air out of the foam. Keeping the vac connected, it wound up about 3/4 to 7/8 the original size. It slipped right into the new cover super easy. Lastly, i used a 10mm box end wrench and C-clamp to push the retaining washer onto the pin. Thank you for posting.
Man I'm glad I watched this video before hitting up the junk yards! One tip I can offer anyone who's going to try this: when you are trying to pull the cover off the armrest, run a long screwdriver through the armrest rod hole. Then sit down in a chair, put a foot on each end of the screwdriver and pull the cover towards your chest.
hey my dude! thanks for watching. Good tip right there. This fix has worked great, cause chances are finding a similar color and a good shape one at the junk yard will not be easy either. At least this is a realistic solution and looks brand new right after you flip it.
Just got done w this project & it worked perfectly! Getting the cover off was initially tough just using my hands, so I used pliers to incrementally pull it off the foam. Then came the plastic bag hack & that worked amazingly!! Thanks for the vid; very grateful for it & now my Merc GM has a new arm rest essentially.
hey buddy! That's a terrific Idea, Even some Wd-40 would have worked great. You're on point my dude! I'm still rolling in this car, gettin over 30 MPG at highway speeds too.
hey man! you got it Glad to help. I was thinking that flipping them would work also, but the mounting mechanism are different, thats the main issue. Lets keep our MERCs on the road to the end!
Thank you for the video, this was easy to do. For the lock washer, I ended up needing to wiggle the bolt a bit to create space to get my screwdriver behind it, but once I created space, that came off without needing a massive chisel, so that worked well.
Thanks for the video very helpful my armrests were pretty bad now thanks to your video there great... PS. The plastic bag trick would've never crossed my mind..
glad to help, this totally made the interior of m Grand Marquis like new again. Now if only I could figure out how to restore the seats. Only was I seen so far was to get them painted with specific leather/vinyl paint. But too pricey and high risk.
@@hybrid32494 right. Same here. I have a seat cover on my driver's side. I don't like the fit of it I need another brand. I need two front door panels and that will be about it for the interior.
I hear ya, I really hat seat covers. They really ruin the interior and make it look sloppy. I never had seat covers, just used good leather conditioner each month and the leather has not gotten worse than when I purchased the car from the sloppy older previous owner.
Big help thanks, pain in the butt as the one the guards on the driver side absolutely would not come out but was able to work around it lost the push washer 3 times but got it back on after about 20 minutes!
What an incredible video. Plastic bag trick - excellent. Removal instructions were right on. I wonder why three plastic caps come off easy and the forth requires a gorilla? Thank you for the help provided.
hey buddy!!, thanks for the comment and watching. This is a great idea to refresh the armrests, and liuterally no negative sideffects of flipping the covers upside down.
Nice video,Im putting a center console in mine, for a crown vic if you pull the mounting bars off there are 3, 5/16 bolts holding the armrest mounts on,at least in my 05 marquises.I'm gonna mount the console to the seats using the original 5/16 bolts,it won't be the best but it will work,and I can make it stock any time
Good video, easy to follow, but I was wondering, I haven't looked at mine and I'm not around my car right now, but based on what I'm seeing in your video, it looks like that hole that the rod goes through is in the center (from top and bottom) of the armrest. If that's the case, could you not just flip the whole armrest upside down (without actually taking the cover off) or is there something that prevents you from doing that?
hey buddy! thanks for watching. I had that same idea, but it won't work. You can't just flip the entire armrest around because the mounting mechanism is specifically to each side. I though rather than messing with the tight tolerances and hoping it would fit it would be easier to just take the cover off and put it on flipped. It's been good since.
@@hybrid32494 I got ya. That makes perfect sense now and I agree, I'm sure turning just the cover over is much easier than getting into the mounting mechanism. Thanks for clearing that up for me!
I might be wrong but I think if you take them both off, flip them both upside down, and put the left on the right and right on left you could avoid having to take the covers off. I may try it when I do mine. Also that way the worn one would be on the passenger side so that the new driver side one could wear on top then be flipped it's self be removing the cover. That way you can get one more flip before having to replace one
I was wrong. Both the passenger and driver armrest stoppers are on the same side. Oh well! I'm still going to swap the passenger and driver so that I can flip the driver one more time when it gets cruddy
why don't you just do what I did and just flip the material upside down. Since you cant really flip the left and right armrests effectively. They sell a whole new leather armrest kit on eBay I saw for 50 bucks, if you def need new covers.
Yeah I did take the covers off and reverse them. Using the plastic bag made it so simple to get them back on! What a great trick, thanks for that! After I took them both off and reversed the covers I just put the left one on the right seat and the right one on the left seat, because mine each had leather stiching on the outer edges. And if I'd kept them where they'd been the stiching would have now been facing inward. Wouldn't have been a big deal just wanted to keep it looking the same as it always has. Plus now when I eventually wear out the leather on the driver side again with my boney elbow I'll be able to flip that cover and it will be nice and fresh again.
Years ago I had a buddy of mine did this but he just flipped the whole arm rest over and mounted it back like it was.............at least I seem to remember it that way. I dont think he took the leather off. Can this be done?
hey buddy! thanks for watching. I considered doing that too, but the problem is these arm rests looks the same, but the mounting is different on each side. So IDK how he would have fitted both of them in that case. Unless he flipped both from left to right and inside down at the same time.
@@hybrid32494 Come to think of it, I believe this is what he did because i seem to remember both rests being "like new" again. I will try it tomorrow on my present Mercury. I'll let you know if it works. If not, I'll do your method which I am by the way, grateful for. Nice video, very well done.
@@hybrid32494 You were right. When I swapped them left to right and upside down, something didn't line up, where the bolt goes through. So I did your method and it worked like a charm. Only thing I did different was I used a long, Flathead screwdriver to to pry the "latches" that held the plastic hardware covers on. I cant see how in the world you were able to grab those and just pull them straight up and off. Again, thanks for the ONLY video concerning how to correct this problem, for FREE! Cheers brother!
Or you could just repair the leather. Get some silicone and squirt it onto a piece of cardboard and then spray paint that silicone with the color of your interior. Now mix that silicone in the paint up real quick and then just like you would use bondo, go over that leather repairing all those little cracks and holes.. of course after you've cleaned the area with 99% alcohol. When you're done your arm rest will look new
If Adam Levine and Shia LeBeouf had it child it would look like you. That's not an insult. At least not the Adam Levine part. As for Shia LeBeouf, take it for what it is. Maybe a younger Dave Gahan would be a better reference instead of LeBeouf.
great comment!! thanks for watching!! I always liked Shia LeBeouf as an actor, LOL. Especially liked his sister when she played in the show (EVEN STEVEN) from years ago!!!
hey bro! You can't clean that part because it's literally WORN out and the top layer is just damaged at this point. Trust me I cleaned it many times and nothing ever changed.
