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While holding the glove box up, push the lever to the right and pry the one on the left down. Then try to lower the glove box. If going beast mode, then just push up in the middle while pulling down on the glove box to crack the plastic.
After I broke the handle off of my glovebox and catapulted it across my yard I discovered that the trick was to push the glovebox door upwards and push the lever up and to the right. If that doesn't work you're SOL, I don't know how you could open it non-destructively.
I had to bend the striker down to access the "catches" on either side of the striker. Also broke some plastic in the process. Glovebox itself seems fine though. Damn that was a PITA.
Anyone? I hate leaving stuff worse than when I started.
Radio, A/C, gauges except speedo - none of it works now. Is there a common relay or fuse for these things that I should be checking? I did a lot of bending and prying removing the glovebox. Anything I could have messed up? Surely the little glovebox lights don't need to be plugged in for this stuff to work?
Also the little brown/white and red/gray wires on top in the picture. Related?
Also still have interior panels removed, including glovebox and glovebox light.
The glovebox R&R has nothing to do with the Radio, gauges, etc working. The wiring is supposed to be secured to the bottom of the air ducts which is out of the way. The brown and red wires are for the glove box light. There's also the constant 12v for the flashlight (missing 99.9% of the time) that is attached to the glove box.
"I'd probably take the E30 M3 in this case just because I love that little car, and how tanky that inline 6 is." - thecj
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