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WE HAVE A FINAL SCORE!! Re: Glove box lid.
VW: 0 / Mike: 1
OK, here's how it went: I removed the clip holding the lock in, and switched it to the new lid. Lid was fully attached to glove box. After putting glove box in (lid must be up to get arm in through the side), I looked at it and removed lid from hinges (arm still intact with spring) as opposed to removing hinges from glove box (which is how I removed it to begin with). With lid still attached by arm, but not hinges, I could move it far enough out of the way to attach screws under lid top. Re-attach hinges, put in the bottom screws of glove box along with the clasp that the lock fits into. SUCCESS! Did not need to remove anything from dash or dash itself other than the glove box.
I plan to continue this no hitter against the car throughout the restoration process. Wish me luck and stop laughing at my last statement.
Mike: 1
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'86 red 16v : 0
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"toFUNit@yahoo.com" <tofunit@yahoo.com> wrote:
Well, for myself, I changed the whole thing (including the lid) and didn't had
any issue about removing the complet dash!!!! So I don't know what to tell you
to solved that! But this may help you, I took out the key-socket out of my old
glovebox and put it on the new one, so this way you can use the original key ;)
Only to remove a little clip that hold the key-socket.
If this can help, I had a 16v old glovebox (broked lid) and did put an 8v
glovebox (including the lid) and did simply move the 16v logo to the new lid.
Hope this bring you some more help ;)
/Joel
87 16v
--- Mike Smith wrote:
> 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
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
> > ----------------
> > '86 red 16v
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