Your Ash ray and Coin Tray Stuck? Look Here. Fix Write up in side with Pics!
Winching
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 538
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From: Houston, Texas
This is really funny as mine are both broken and I intend to do this fix this week! There just seems to be something totally inferior about the grade of plastic they used in most of the Discovery series vehicles; I wonder if Range Rovers and other models from this time frame have the same crappy brittle plastic, I suspect they do. Over the years I have replaced the plastic cover around the instrument cluster, the center console and some of the plastic parts that clip on to the seats, all because bits of the plastic have broken off making them loose or falling off. My ash tray and coin tray both have the broken plastic parts and I just never shut them all the way to make getting into them easier.
1st Gear
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 1
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good grief. this afternoon i fixed the passenger rear door with the slipped down window seal and now this!? thank you so much for this old helpful post!
i have literally found 5 fixes on this site today while my kiddos played soccer for my beloved 10year old truck. it recently passed emissions after being on an exemption and i am so delighted to breathe new life into it. next after the coin trays, is the door that won't unlock. I think i will let my husband tackle the ABS issue.
i have literally found 5 fixes on this site today while my kiddos played soccer for my beloved 10year old truck. it recently passed emissions after being on an exemption and i am so delighted to breathe new life into it. next after the coin trays, is the door that won't unlock. I think i will let my husband tackle the ABS issue.
Overlanding
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 18
Likes: 1
From: Colorado
re: coin holder/ash tray fix
Not sure if this is the right section. I just bought this 04 disco last night and found out that my trays would not retract back out it got pissed me off so I decided to fix them.
I started by taking the trays out by pushing on the tab to be able to pull the tray out shown below:
After I got the trays out there are 3 phillip head screws on both sides behind where the trays fit. Take those screws out and the complete housing will come off.:
After the housing is out you will discover (lol) that the spring retainers on the plastic housing will be broke off. Just grab a couple small but stron zip ties and use 2 on both springs to hold the spring tab in place tight against the housing. Tread the tie between the small opening that the spring arm itself goes through and through the broken opening of the housing. pull the ties tight to hold the spring tab tight:
And a video of how the trays should function:
VID00012-20110908-0130.mp4 video by sickws6 - Photobucket
I started by taking the trays out by pushing on the tab to be able to pull the tray out shown below:
After I got the trays out there are 3 phillip head screws on both sides behind where the trays fit. Take those screws out and the complete housing will come off.:
After the housing is out you will discover (lol) that the spring retainers on the plastic housing will be broke off. Just grab a couple small but stron zip ties and use 2 on both springs to hold the spring tab in place tight against the housing. Tread the tie between the small opening that the spring arm itself goes through and through the broken opening of the housing. pull the ties tight to hold the spring tab tight:
And a video of how the trays should function:
VID00012-20110908-0130.mp4 video by sickws6 - Photobucket
Works awesome!
Baja
Joined: Aug 2013
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From: Near Bordeaux, France
Excellent useful info joyntanovich. Both of mine crapped out some years ago and the springs took a powder. I've never gotten around to fixing them (hate fiddly trim jobs) but with that info I might just fix them as the wife pushes them in too far now and they get stuck 
Recovery Vehicle
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 1,140
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From: Traverse City, MI
Excellent useful info joyntanovich. Both of mine crapped out some years ago and the springs took a powder. I've never gotten around to fixing them (hate fiddly trim jobs) but with that info I might just fix them as the wife pushes them in too far now and they get stuck
Maybe if I make a commitment to work on at least 2 items a week? Would that be a deal with the devil? 
Start small and work big? Or is it start big and work small (aka go big or go home..)I can do this.. thanks for the write-up sickws6. I know that I have a few zip-ties laying around in the garage and cigarette butt receptacle (the British term for it) that doesn't open
Last edited by KernowDiscovery; Nov 11, 2014 at 09:10 PM.