Hi everyone. Thanks for looking.

 

The top glovebox is stuck down. The button is depressed (bit like I am) and won’t go in any further. I’ve pushed, pulled and whacked the glovebox cover, with no luck so far.

 

Does anyone have any ideas how to release it, please?

 

Thanks in anticipation.

 

Graham

Hi ive been doing some investigations on another thread here 

but have found that if you are willing to use pry tools you can remove the lovely shiny outer skin of teh box and reveal the really simple latch inside it, if you did that you can open the glovebox , remove it, and fix it possibly with the fix also in that thread. you would need to be willing to glue the outer layer back on again with something, poss jbweld or airfoil glue im not sure.  

 

Thanks Adamo, appreciated! The car is back with the dealer at present, and this is on the list for them to look at. If they can’t sort it, I’ll follow the advice here and maybe get a replacement lid, if I can find one.

 

Cheers!

hi there ok yeah I did this today, its easy to remove the air vent to right of glovebox, once you've done that you can access the mechanism to release the glovebox door. Then you will probably need to remove teh glovebox and repair the button cable ferule.

Removing air vent is simply by pulling it out of teh dash using a hooked tool in the small circular holes - two on either side of the vent interior.

(so no need to tear the outer skin off it or replace it)

Ahh, thanks, Adamo! The dealer sorted it for me…apparently the cable from the button had come off. Imwas wondering how they got to it, so your answer is probably how!

Appreciate the info as I suspect it could happen again!

Cheers

G

i was wondering about getting the vents out, they seem very well pushed in. thanks for the info!

and now I'm trying to get the upper glovebox to stay closed. Any hints on how to thread the opening mech would be appreciated....

I wish I could help but I can’t, sorry…

I have an answer, or more to the point, a set of answers.

The mech is beyond silly. There's a lever which moves UP when you press the button in. This pulls a cable (like your bike gear cable), which then PUSHES the arm down on the latch. This pushes the latching mech down just a tad more, which then allows the triangle shaped wedge to escape and open the door. Any tension on the cable, the door opens.

the door is on a silicon piston to slow it and dual springs to push it. so it's a smooooth movement.

BUT: the mech is so damned sensitive it's not funny. I removed mine earlier and could not get the damned thing to stay closed. No matter what I did.

I figured there was a way to adjust the mech: there is no adjustment.

Even stupider: the tolerances in the mech to keep the door closed are of the order of .xmm. There's a spring to keep the latch pushed down, even - this is German Engineering with a capital G.

So how to stop it? A little fiddling showed me that even clamping the cable in the correct place forced the lid to open. So there was too much tension on the cable. And after realising the brass collars have their own place... I saw some cable surrounds showing too long, so I figured shortening the cable might work. I realised I only needed to remove the outer jacket. Hey presto, 3mm removed and it works perfectly. Back in the car, no problem.

To remove the upper glovebox, remove the lower one (tx 20s. 4 inside on the top, two underneath, 2 on the right side under the cover for the end of the dash, it's just pressed in), disconnect the lamps if you feel the need. Remove the aircon tube, slide the radio out (disconnect as you go, the cables may be cable tied in place). Upper 'box has two screws on the inside at the top (next to the hinges on each side) and three at the bottom (under the rubber mat). The mat is a complete **** to get out, but it is possible.

If the top one doesn't open, remove the lower and pull the cable. If it won't shut, try as above. No demolition necessary.

still can't get the outer vents off, I've got the inner ones off now. So some WS2812s will be found tomorrow along with some hot glue and some short 3 pin JST cables 😁

Pics

This is the section at the door. You can see the spring to the right that pushes the door up. The end of the cable and its ferrule are visible.

The piece I chopped off: those are centimetres with the numbers, so it's really about 3-4mm

And the last: this is the bit that slides in to the push button on the glovebox. The piece underneath is the one that slides on the button mech, the bar to the right is the piece that gets pushed around.

Edited 21 April, 20251 yr by brettikivi

I think this is because the outer cable pulls out of the brass ferule. I fixed mine by filing the sides of the plastic outer so it fitted back into the ferule so more or less the same as you’ve done. I agree it’s super sensitive to being pushed too hard by someone who isn’t mechanically minded and once that ferule is off it’ll never stay shut