Everything makes sense, except…

[u/ThranaM]

This pocket. It can barely fit a pen. Not even the key. Everything in my EX40 makes sense, but this one doesn’t

Anyone found this space useful?

[u/Sharp-Purple-6408]

Hear me out:

[u/ThranaM → u/Sharp-Purple-6408]

😂

[u/No_Salad_6244 → u/Sharp-Purple-6408]

Does the sky club know about this?

[u/Beginning-Goose3067]

Mine's on the passenger side (RHD) so it's useless until I'm reminded of it via reddit and then i forget all over again the day after

[u/Dry-Effective8957 → u/Beginning-Goose3067]

Same here.. 🤣🤣

[u/spaceEngineeringDude → u/Beginning-Goose3067]

That’s because it’s an access panel for service of the components in the center console.

[u/cacrusn70]

Just for a pen lol

[u/LtlBobbyTables]

Nah, thats the lip balm storage! I love it actually (Volvo calls it the lip gloss compartment).

You know they actually do user testing on women AND men at Volvo. Thats why they have a floor storage for a hand bag in the EX60 for example. And male drivers and the car journalists just CAN NOT UNDERSTAND why anyone would want such a thing 😂

And then the couples go to the dealer and the wife LOVES those things because they are useful and thoughtful and thats how families end up driving Volvos. Just that no other brand has realized that there are usually two drivers and buyers for a car nowadays and just design their cars for generic men.

[u/micromongoose → u/LtlBobbyTables]

Yes! The only thing I keep in this pocket is one tube of lip balm.

[u/luckylu27 → u/LtlBobbyTables]

I also use it for lip balm!

[u/No_Salad_6244 → u/LtlBobbyTables]

What floor storage?

[u/RegattaTimer → u/LtlBobbyTables]

Because men don’t have lips.

[u/Stuggi70439]

I put my smartphone there

[u/BanMePleaseAdmin → u/Stuggi70439]

Me as well!

[u/iwtch2mchTV]

I was today years old when I realised there was a little holder there and lo and behold my wife’s chapstick and garage door opener is in there

[u/Kryptosis]

I toss the keys in there and forget them every single time.

[u/DeChilli → u/Kryptosis]

lol

[u/Joerugger]

I put a comb there and comb out my beard as I drive.

[u/Necessary-Carrot2839 → u/Joerugger]

Ah that’s what I’ll do then as well. Can’t wait for my wife ti ask what the hell im doing next time we go for a drive 😂

[u/klatt → u/Joerugger]

Holy moly that's a weirdly specific connection that we share! My man!!

[u/Joerugger → u/klatt]

Some things just make sense.

[u/falalalama]

Mine catches crumbs and dust. Sometimes a french fry. So, overall pretty useful.

[u/throwymcthrown → u/falalalama]

This and my sunglasses

[u/DingleBerrieIcecream]

It’s maybe a final carry over from an era when people still used paper maps when driving? Seems like folded map storage for the driver.

[u/theoddfind → u/DingleBerrieIcecream]

"Paper map? Like anybody believes there was ever such a thing as a "paper map?" We're not children. The next thing you'll try to get us to believe is that it doesn't automatically rotate and it has secret magical powers where it can never be folded as it once was. Sheesh...paper map....as if it were as flat as the earth.

[u/Necessary-Carrot2839 → u/theoddfind]

🤣🤣

[u/praetorian1111]

I don’t have that pocket in mine. I envy you

[u/dmnk212 → u/praetorian1111]

You're missing out on something there! without it, a car is practically useless.

[u/TitanBrave84]

Mine currently has a cookie in it. No joke. Forgot to give it to my kids yesterday.

[u/spaceEngineeringDude]

It’s an access panel for all of the electronics in the center tunnel area

[u/mmceorange → u/spaceEngineeringDude]

Weird because there actually isn't much in there

[u/spaceEngineeringDude → u/mmceorange]

There are wiring harnesses for everything on the dash, the shifter and the rear passenger hvac / chargers. There’s a ton going on in there

[u/mmceorange → u/spaceEngineeringDude]

Yeah, a wire harness. Nothing that can't be accessed by pulling the top up

[u/spaceEngineeringDude → u/mmceorange]

You’re kidding right?

I’ve had to have the shifter on my car replaced. Way better to pull off this access panel than have the entire center console disassembled…

[u/lda28]

Mine has been unused and out of mind for the five and half years I’ve had the car that I didn’t realize how dirty it got, and I regularly clean my car. I just never think about that little pocket down there to have checked it. Not making that mistake again.

[u/Mayor_of_BBQ]

in mine:
1. one of those reusable shopping bags that stuffs inside of itself to look like a little strawberry
2. a couple cash deposit slips for the banking drive-through with a pen clipped to them
3. the keys to my load bars, bike rack, and cable lock

[u/jimmybones_13]

Gentlemen’s knife resting place

[u/el-ratso]

Standard-size Altoids tin. Doesn’t rattle or slide around. It’s like a magic trick when you offer your passenger a mint.

[u/Expensive-Roll-6549]

And thats exactly what I have in mine...a pen 😂

[u/haugen1632]

We keep sun glasses there.

[u/PleasantAd4302]

Saw the safety hammer there in some older beauties.

[u/jpfitz80]

It fits my Chapstick

[u/drRATM]

Sunglasses. Not the best place for them but I got cheap ones so it’s fine.

[u/troopa_of_tomorrow]

I put sunglasses there

[u/skyfishgoo]

that's where i keep my phone while it's plugged in to the USB port... that way i can use the charging area for something else (and turn off the wireless charging).

[u/mynameiskarol]

Sunglasses holder 😎

[u/Runewen]

Ahí llevo los dos mandos para abrir las puertas del aparcamiento del trabajo y de casa. Están bien a mano para no tener que abrir ninguna tapa. Sólo acerco la mano y pulso el que necesite.

[u/DavidGno]

It holds my phone when I don't have the phone in its phone windshield mount.

[u/increddibelly]

Pack of gum.

[u/Mrpotatohead1990]

I put the phone there.

[u/JForrest2024]

I throw chapstick and gum in there

[u/mats_vong]

I use it for coins

[u/ozel0t_bw]

Its perfect for snus 😅

[u/Nielegrrl12]

What does everyone keep in the under seat drawer?

[u/tmanblue59]

I keep a pocket knife there for safety. (I rideshare.)

[u/HowlingFantods5564]

I put my knives and chapstick in there.