I've just become a Yeti owner. Purchased a 2009 SE TDI. 

Think I've worked out where everything and what everything is with the exception of an object in the centre console armrest. 

Anybody know what this is... 

 

I'm stumped! looks like a cigar cutter, small loop handle moves up and down. It's probably obvious and I'm just a fool! 

Edited 15 February, 201610 yr by bareskillz

Raise it and it allows cooled air from the A/C to enter the console and 'cool' items in the box.

It's for cooling the interior of the Jumbo Box. If you lift it,it allows chilled air (iirc whatever the temperature is set on the AC/CC). The same principal as the AC dial in the glove box.

Great, thanks. Mystery solved! Must have missed this in the manual. 

On my last Yeti I pulled it a bit too hard and it came out. 

 

I don't think it's supposed to though.

Remember that it merely bleeds off air from the trunking that feeds the rear seat footwells & the air vents at the back of the centre console. So if your heater is supplying hot air, then stuff in your Jumbo Box will be heated too if the flap is open!

Anyone else think the centre storage cover is far too low to be described as an arm rest. Totally useless unless you have arms like a gibbon

I can raise my arm rest by lifting it up slowly and it ratchets, what annoys me is the way it impedes the handbrake, why can't it have a cut out like a BMW?

Blow me! 18months in and I've learned something else

Keeps the mars bars chilled, also a similar one in the glove box, or it may have moved to the glove box from center island on later models. Just remember to eat the mars bars before the winter when you put the heating on!

Blow me! 18months in and I've learned something else

You do realise it slides forward too so it's in the right position for your arm? But as said, it is then in the way of the hand brake.

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I took mine off as it was in the way. I try and keep my hands on the wheel and not resting limbs on it.

I use the flat top as a resting place for my MSA radios, otherwise it's more useful to me as somewhere to drop oddments in quickly.

could be ok for pre heating the bacon sarnies!!  ; -))

You do realise it slides forward too so it's in the right position for your arm? But as said, it is then in the way of the hand brake.

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I was referring to the 'knob' that pulls up. I'm Ok personally speaking with the arm rest positioning although I agree about the handbrake.

I tried to hutch myself up in my seat today and found out that the top of arm rest slides forwards and backwards - I just wonder if there will come a day when I stop discovering things I didn't know about my Yeti

Seats are so much more supportive than yesteryear I find.

I used to get a fibrositis like pain across the top of my shoulders many moons ago ....but nothing now......those armrests certainly help also.