I did contact you on the folding arm rest I first received as it fell apart in less than a week. You replaced it with the non folding model. Yes, the top lid does slide sideways. Will calling you make the product better? I doubt it. It is a cheap, weak , flimsey product that does not give hardly any padding on the top and the lid cover is so thin it scratches open very easily. (I recovered with real leather so that is the best part of the lid now.)I don't want to take it apart and send in again. I will just get the same thing back. The only good I get out of it is the small storage area. My opinion and I feel fellow freakers have a right to know. This will probably be censored but it is the truth.