Glove box lid.

[smithma7 at yahoo.com (Mike Smith)]

Well, I Krazy Glued the arm to the original lid last night.  This morning, it seems to be holding quite well.  I'm going to glue the rest tonight when I get home from work.  Then, hopefully, using Rob's advice, I'm going to try and put it back in either tomorrow or the next day.  I'm waiting a bit as I'd like to give the glue as much time as possible to set before I start putting presure on it (ala the spring).  I will keep you informed on my progress and am DETERMINED to make this VW 2, Us 1.  I refuse to ride around with a gaping hole in my dash for more than a couple of days.
 
Mike

Phil Kerschner <PBKScirocco@netscape.net> wrote:
Make that VW1, Vinny 0 (me as well, so that's VW 2, Us 0). One of their 
beauty engineering feats, I suppose. I'll have to take note of Rob's 
comment for a possible solution.

-Phil

vince@performancecarstereo.com wrote:
> I hear you on your dilema. About 6 months ago I swapped my dash and the
> glove box assembly was the hardest part. For some reason I couldn't even
> get to the point that you're at. Something was wrong with my spring, for
> the life of me I could never get it to work right. It was always trying to
> pull the glove box shut - no matter how I managed to rig it on there.
> Either something was wrong with the parts or something was wrong with my
> head - I'm not sure, but I gave up very quickly. To this day I haven't had
> the courage to face it again, so my lid doesn't stay up.
> 
> Rocco - 1
> Vinny - 0
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Robbie Cotner
> Sent: June 15, 2003 2:45 PM
> To: Mike Smith
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Glove box lid.
> 
> 
> If I recall correctly you can reattach the spring from under the dash, just
> remove the passenger side under-dash cover and possible the vent tube(not
> too hard). HTH,
> 
> -Rob
> 
> Mike Smith wrote:
> Previous Owner had problems with it as the rear, right corner (and the arm)
> had come apart. He epoxy'd it back together and worked fine. I bought it and
> a few years later, the corne rstarted to come apart again. The control arm,
> whether from preasure of the corner or from the spring inside (holds the lid
> open), eventually broke and then the spring twisted around resulting in the
> lid not holding itself open anymore.
> 
> Recently, I picked up a new lid. I removed the old and then glove box
> itself. I put in the new lid and the spring attachment and it works fine.
> One problem: I can't put the glove box back in with the lid installed, and I
> can't hook the spring to the arm with the glove box installed. Will I need
> to remove the whole dash to install all pieces properly? Or is there some
> trick I'm missing here? Bently's not really a big help on this one.
> 
> Also, would Krazy Glue (tm) do the trick as far as repairing the original
> lid or should I use some sort of epoxy like the PO? And would it stand up to
> the preasure put on it by the spring? I'd like ot use the original lid as my
> key fits it and I don't want to have to move the 16v logo from old to new
> (new one's missing).
> 
> Thanks
> Mike
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