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Refitting Skoda Kamiq glove box

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I've had my Kamiq just over two months now and am very pleased with it.  However, a rattle has developed, very quiet at first but now noisy and annoying, which seems to come from the glove box.

 

I've emptied everything put and it isn't caused by bits and pieces in the glove box, so I thought it might be something behind the glove box and decided to try and look behind it.

 

Getting the glove box  to fold out wasn't two difficult.  At each side at the top of the glove box frame there is a small button you push up which frees the box itself to fall down fully, rather like with the Superb III.  

 

The problems start when you try to refit the glove box.  I assumed that a firm push would refit it, but it doesn't.  It's necessary to press up the two buttons and then push the glovebox behind them, which you can't do when your fingers are pushing the two buttons up!   I suspect that a garage has a suitable tool to do the job which is both very thin and also very rigid.   Tomorrow, I'm going to try using some right angle plastic strip to do the job, but meanwhile wondered if anyone else had faced the same problem and come up with a method. for refitting the glovebox.

 

If I can't refit it, then it's off too one of the local dealers for help, from neither of whom I bought the car!  (Although I do have eight years of having all my servicing with one of them and am continuing with then for servicing with the Kamiq.

You might find this manual helpful that also covers the Kamiq which is downloadable here: 

 

 

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Many thanks for that link which I'll follow up although I was just returning here to post that I had managed to restore the glove box to its rightful position earlier today.

 

With better light from an LED work lamp, I was able to see that the right hand projection that held the glove box in place was abut 2mm further back than the left hand one.  By pushing up the left hand button with a screwdriver I was able to get that side of the glove box held in place although not fully in.   I repeated this with the right hand button and then gave the whole glove box a hard push and after the second or third attempt, it slotted fully back into place.

 

It will be useful to check that5 this is the correct method.

 

I still have no idea where the rattle/vibration comes from.

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Just to tidy up loose ends, the ways the glove  box is fitted in the Kamiq and the Scala are quite different, as is the design of the glove box.  The Scala is air-conditioned which may sound unnecessary but I found this facility on the Fabia Estate I had before my Kamiq very useful at times.

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Postscript:  I discovered that the rattle/vibration was coming from the dash cam which is attached to the windscreen by a sucker system.  Removing and refitting this solved he problem, although my wife says there is still a minor noise coming from the cable in the headlining.

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