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[feeutfo]

Part no.s
Housing. V00 90275452.     £3.52
Hose.      V00 90457630.    £10.85. Plus vat
Thanks to andyc for his help with parts

Fairly easy one this. Remove glove box and you'll find a knock through section on the back about the same diameter as a pound coin. Knock this out, no subtlety required.
Then fit the glove box vent within so the external inlet pipe points upwards. Push it firmly home, it will just click in.



Inside view


Now locate the ac feed pipe Vauxhall have provided, top right of foot well, rear of centre console, above the footwell vent. Screw driver in the back ground shows general location. Your looking to remove the rubber cap shown in hand. A coat hanger wire with a hook bent over on the and helps here, and fit the end of the feed pipe in its place. Fiddly this bit, unsighted, feel your way. There is a bit of moulding partially obscuring line of site, but it does go on.


More detailed closer pic of the outlet with cap removed.screw driver shows exact location.




Once fitted leave the vent pipe hanging over the BACK of the lower bar running across the footwell or the glove box won't go back in. Now re fit the glove box, connect the electrical plugs and offer the box into position. You'll see the newly fitted pipe fouls the glove box, lift the pipe up out the way to clear and slide the glove box into position.
 
Once the screws are in and glove box is securely in place, reach under and connect the new pipe to the nipple on the vent previously fitted. It just pushes on. Re fit the rest of the surrounding glove box gubbins. That's it job done.

Note, there's a lot of extra wires in the background of some of the pictures. These are not standard, you wont have these.
Also, the ac feed is constantly cold, but only works with engine running obviously. Don't expect Mars bars not to melt in there with car parked up on a hot day.

[feeutfo]

Ok, after a bit of time with this installed.... day to day, short journeys with average outside temps, the benefits are minimal. But on a longer journey, ESP in hot weather where ac and fan speeds will be working harder, there is greater cooling involved. It's never going to reach fridge temperatures, but it will make an otherwise warm tepid drink cooler and more pleasant than it was.
 Reading between the lines this option was available on the pre face lift, but dropped as an option on the face lift, I suspect due to the ncdc 2015 telematics being installed in the glove box, some customers, i suppose, might drop the more profitable phone option in favour of the ac glove box. I guess GM took the choice away on economic grounds.
 Obviously owners with ncdc2015 telematics in the glove box won't find this usefull, unless the telematics is re sighted and looms extended with help from Vxlv6 (Thanks Andy and TB for thier help with that) 

But there we are, a cheap and easy install generally speaking, and you never know, it might help the re sale value... Maybe.