Moving dac and centre diff lock buttons

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Hey guys., as title suggests I'm looking at moving the centre diff lock button and down hill decent button on my prado grande 2005.
As grande owners know there's pretty much no room to put anything in the front of car because centre consol is taken up by a fridge, when going off-road or even on road around town everything in cup holders in front of fridge like phones wallets flys out and is attracted to these buttons easily engaging them, also during my search there's a lot of people having drinks in cup holders fly out and go all over these buttons and it's a pain on the side of the track taking consol apart and cleaning coke out of said buttons. Happened to me aswell and dac was coming on and off when ever it wanted,
Soooo. Surely someone's moved these buttons? Or even if they could be changed to a different one I'd be interested so I can solve this problem, something with a rocket launcher cover on it that's water proof maybe? I'm not sure just after ideas ATM before I go pulling things apart
Thanks Mullins

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Cables aren't long enough in the loom. The switches only go into certain spots too.
It's a bit of work and fiddling to move them.

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That's right. The switches are 'keyed' to only go in certain spots. It all looks the same from the top but the bodies are different in shape.

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Hmmmm ok. So could be an option to extend the lines and use an aftermarket switch? Anybody know how many wires coming out and what they are? How to wire it up to an aftermarket switch? Or where I could get this info? Haven't got the car with me ATM getting a new sunroof
Thanks heaps for your help
Mullins

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Lots of wires, quite a big job and personally I wouldn't be cutting into the factory looms.
Not to say it can't be done.