Swapping out ash trays with something useful?

[davla]

So my car comes with an ash tray and cigarette holder in the front and one in the back for the kids? Completely useless items. So is there something I can swap them out with? Cheers.

[chrisr763]

So my car comes with an ash tray and cigarette holder in the front and one in the back for the kids? Completely useless items. So is there something I can swap them out with? Cheers.

The front can be swapped out for a tray or a tray with lid. Unfortunatly I have not seen a tray without a cig lighter before. So the front one will always be there, besides you can plug Sat Navs / phone chargers into them. The back one again... Buy a cover if it doesnt have one? Use it to charge things?

Not very helpful but there isnt much you can do IMO 

[Kalpsn2000]

So my car comes with an ash tray and cigarette holder in the front and one in the back for the kids? Completely useless items. So is there something I can swap them out with? Cheers.

The front can be swapped out for a tray or a tray with lid. Unfortunatly I have not seen a tray without a cig lighter before. So the front one will always be there, besides you can plug Sat Navs / phone chargers into them. The back one again... Buy a cover if it doesnt have one? Use it to charge things?

Not very helpful but there isnt much you can do IMO  

Yes this the main reason why they are there now-a-days.

[davla]

Cheers for the replies. I managed to pull the chrome cigarette holders out of the ashtrays, so now they're more like handy cubby holes. I agree the 12v supply always come in handy, so I'll just ditch the ciggy lighter and put it a socket cover. 

[trs888]

Cheers for the replies. I managed to pull the chrome cigarette holders out of the ashtrays, so now they're more like handy cubby holes. I agree the 12v supply always come in handy, so I'll just ditch the ciggy lighter and put it a socket cover. 

can you just get the socket cover? if so thats what ill do too! good thinking batman!

let me know if you can!

[brookesb32]

Cheers for the replies. I managed to pull the chrome cigarette holders out of the ashtrays, so now they're more like handy cubby holes. I agree the 12v supply always come in handy, so I'll just ditch the ciggy lighter and put it a socket cover. 

can you just get the socket cover? if so thats what ill do too! good thinking batman!

let me know if you can!

Any socket cover will do - had ones on my Focus

[Meallbhan]

I have a Parrot CK3100 Bluetooth phone kit, with a little jiggery pokery I managed to hide the control panel neatly in the front ashtray.  I can close the ashtray lid, and no one knows there's a kit fitted to the car.  Nice and stealthy. 

[davla]

I did that on my TT. Was the Parrot kit easy to fit? I had one in a Ford Puma and it was plug and play but a right pain to fi in th TT.

[Meallbhan]

It was a bit of a fiddle as the stereo and heater control panel etc had to all come out.  Once I got that all removed it was just a case of plugging in the wiring harness I had to buy for the car, hide all the components and refit the stereo etc.  It was too bad really in the end.