Console Cover Warping

[Richard Dalkran]

Can someone recommend. Where to get a new console lid/arm rest for my 2005 with black interior. The top vinyl cover has warped and curled up at the front edge. I took it out and slathered it with epoxy and using small spring clips, strong ones overnight all seemed fine. For about a month, then the front is curling up again like it has shrunk from the Miami sun. All suggestions, ideas,thoughts gratefully accepted.
Thanks for your time
Richard.

 

[MustangGTCSTx]

Mine is doing the same. I tried some 3m double sided tape and it lasted about 3 days. I'm going to try the junkyards and see if I can find the entire top piece.

 

[Richard Dalkran]

I found a new Ford part online for around $60.00, I am going to keep looking. If you want the Ford replacement email and I will find the item.
Richard

 

[Richard Dalkran]

I bit the bullet and bought the official Ford replacement part from a Ford dealer, World Ford in South Miami. I took the whole cover to the parts counter and before I could say anything the clerk asked between 2005 and 2009? I said yes and he came back with one. Within two weeks the front began peeling up. A different clerk said that is not the one I bought, I went to the car and got the original I kept and asked to speak to the parts manager. He apologized and gave me a refund and the web site for a counterfeit Ford parts store in China, they sell one for less than 7 dollars with thicker leather covering including shipping. After I receive it I will post here. I normally go out of my way to buy stuff built in the USA, I was at a Sears store for a Craftsman ratchet set and in tiny letters it said, made in Mexico. AARRGGHHH

 

[Richard Dalkran]

The China copy is softer and is holding up like new. I find this depressing. Ford can't make one for sixty bucks but China makes a better one for less than five dollars with shipping

 

[Red_LX]

That's weird, I've never had that problem with my vinyl cover. Now I DID have a problem with the plastic breaking in the middle of the cover where my arm always rested, which I fixed with a metal plate...I completely took the cover apart, then put it all back together as it was and it looks great, no issues with the cover at all.

 

[Richard Dalkran]

It might be due to the South Florida sun, whenever I walk by one in a parking lot I will take a quick look and about 75% have curled up at the front. I have a friend who recently bought a car at Enterprise and the salesman said that the rental division bought a bunch of 2005 V6 mustangs and within a year the top armrest were peeling up. Since it was Enterprise who buys a few thousand Fords a year Ford replaced them under warranty.