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Vent control gone walkabout

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Gave my Yeti it's annual clean yesterday to find one of the control rings for the vents into the rear footwell was missing. No sign of it in the car and how long its been missing I've no idea - I never sit in the back.

Has anyone else had this happen? And more importantly, is it possible to get a replacement control ring?  And just as importantly is it an easy fix or is it one of those things where you have to buy a whole load of extra bits you won't need and take half the car to pieces to do so? It's annoying but as my car is now seven years old and I don't think I or anyone else has adjusted the control since the day I brought it home it's not something where it's worth spending a lot of time, money and effort.

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Same with mine, ease out the panel and it should be within, and then easy to remount!

Good luck

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This is why I love this forum!!! Thanks Frenchtone, easy once you know how. I quite expected the pin at the back to be broken but it wasn't so goodness knows how it got round that way - it took a bit of effort to get it back in position. 

 

And thank you to Brian for sympathy.

Had the same, thought the control ring was broken, but it had just been kicked round by one of the kids. Stealers  wanted to charge around  £160 (from memory) to fix / replace - I thought no way! After looking on YouTube it took less than 5 minutes to ease the vent out with a plastic card, rotate the ring to relocate and to refit.
 

I think the vents are easily  available and not too expensive on eBay if it is damaged beyond repair.

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