The pictures below shows the Ashtray Unit fully disasambled:






In my case, I was able to find an entire Ashtray Assembly with a full working Ahstray (undamaged, fully functional) which included all the components as seen in the pictures above. What I ended up doing is removing the 'middle' section as shown in the pictures and 'transfer' the middle section (Middle Plate and Cigarette Lighter) from my existing vehicle into the 'replacement' part... mainly because I didn't want to risk to mount everything and find out the cigarette ligher didn't work. Though as anyone who can see the pictures above, the 'middle' section and cigarette lighter which in the pictures are 'after' I transfered, namely the Ashtray is the 'defective' part I already took out of my Crossfire and already had 'transplanted' the 'middle' section and cigaretted ligher from the 'replacement' (used) part into this unit. Though as you can see on the pictures, it look in tip-top shape.

Since I have a working Ashtray with middle section and cigarette lighter still from my existing Crossfire, I decided to do the 'repair' as Chuck had done before... the pictures show the 'end' result of a now 'spare' 'ready to go/ready to be installed' Ashtray Unit including the 'middle' section and cigarette lighter.

Just as in Chuck's video, I removed the 'coil' mechanism from the unit in the pictures above, so that the ashtray won't 'pop-out' (on this repaired unit) and installed the 'glassdoor' pin on the back of the unit, just as in Chuck's Video... so now, in case another one of my Crossfires had this problem, I have already another unit 'ready to go'.

(My Crossfires, all Coupes, 2007 Model Year --all of them-- I have owned since they were new... as of the time of this posting, all of them are in the 60k Kilometers (Aprox 37k Miles) since new.... so it is expected that after 10+ Years 'something' will break at some point... since the Ashtray Assembly unit is no longer available directly from Chrysler --or Daimler.. the Crossfire version... the R170 for the Mercedes Benz one is still available, though won't fit 100% as the front panels for the crossfire protrude a bit more than in the SLK R170--, than the repair as 'Chuck' described was the 'best' solution for me to get the 'old' unit repaired and store it as a spare part : )