G'day.
Our 4-year old European car has always been good but last week the glove box can't be latched.
Ask the company and it appears the only way is to get one from Germany for $1,200!!!
Has anyone has any experience and have a good (cheaper) solution?
I am threatening to put in a childproof latch soon……
Thanks in advance for sharing.
Quite possibly someone 3d printing them out there.
Our 4-year old European car has always been good but last week the glove box can't be latched.
Ask the company and it appears the only way is to get one from Germany for $1,200!!!
I'm guessing BMW
Ummm lol why? BMW are more reliable than Audi and Mercedes.. so I would guess you'd be wrong.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=D6bSdZzko8Q&si=0XJVhJh_DjPxuJtD
If out of warranty, magnets are the solution.
Thanks so much, this is most helpful.
Will try eBay Amazon…
Cheers!
Tell us the bloody car
the bloody car. there yago
It's a RED car, don't you get it :)
Did you replace the blinker fluid?
You mean glovebox fluid?
Not this again…. :)
Tell them the price son.
3d printer
I googled "4yr old European car glovebox latch repair" and the most common answer was to buy the factory repair tool, but some said a cheap suckworth from Bunnings should do the job.
Perfect vague answer to equally vague question
No wonder the quote is $1200
$800 to determine the make and model
$200 for the latch
$200 for installation
I would charge $4k to determine model. :)
Suck it up.
Perhaps the glovebox had a base-plate of prefabulated aluminite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan causing breakage of the glovebox latch. The previous version of your vehicle consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The previous gloveblox main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-bovoid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.
New cars just arent built the same anymore.
Take out all the log book and manuals and try now
the glove box is not a suitable place to store your baby
It’s ok. They on out want to put a child proof latch, not a baby proof one.
Wow makes my complaint about latch on landruiser having issues after 500,000km look trivial
Ah. The school holidays threads have begun
Brisbane. Say no more
Did you remove the energy polariser? That’s what ties the whole car together.
Great scott! I have worked it out. Parts have been salvaged to make the flux capacitor work properly. It will open and close easily once you reach 88 mph because the inductance from the polariser will neutralise the plasma charge.
Tried narrowing down the make and model of a 1.21 gigawatts 4 year old European car but it was still too vague
Thanks for making my Monday workday go faster.
Sell the car and don’t buy European cars ever again? Just to avoid the future headaches.
Time to scrap it and buy a scooter
People who are living payday to payday are buying expensive cars that they can't afford to maintain.
$1300 nothing if I could afford a $80k car. I suspect I will get paid $600 per hour and maybe in 350k per year. My time in reading this post would be more costly for me rather than paying the $1300. I am not rich like that so I drive cheap cars that don't break easily like this.
This is the same type of person who says "Will buy car" when asked what they would do if they win lotto.
:)
Say what? You’re saying it’s OK to charge $1300 to repair a glovebox latch just because they bought an expensive car?
Yes. A 80k car won't have the same glove box latch compared to a 30k car. When you buy a 80k car you accept very expensive repairs, insurance and servicing.
Maybe OP has a Rolls royce Boat-tail custom. They haven't said right?
If that's the case, for a 50 million dollar car, the glove box is cheap at $1300.
Yeah, nah. The glovebox latch is a basic part that shouldn’t fail. I can understand a dealer not being able to think outside the box and only finding the full replacement part as a solution. But still, if you accept that a part is $1300 for likely under $100 worth of plastic bits is a joke. Part of the problem with dealerships is they won’t think outside the box, it’s likely a 10min fix with a bit of thought about it and access to the correct part. We should. It accept that things cannot be fixed and cm only be replaced with factory bits - especially on an expensive car.
I suppose you think designer sunglasses and clothes are worth the stupid markups the put on sweatshop produced stuff is worth it for the badge do you?
@Euphemistic: What you are saying here is that the dealship won't think outside of the glovebox. :)
Stupid markups are already accepted if you buy an expensive car. The problem here is the OP is too cheap.
I have a friend who bought a C250 to show off to friends. He pays about $4k for service every year! For a brand new car. They must disaassemble the brand new engine and massage it to give it a happy ending for that price.
For him he doesn't care. That's the price he pays for showing off. I wouldn't do it but he does.
But when poor people buy expensive cars, they can't afford to fix em when they break.
Yes. A 80k car won't have the same glove box latch compared to a 30k car.
I wouldn't be so sure… if it was the same brand of car why would they go to the effort to re-engineer a different latch?
@Brick Tamland: And even if it doesn’t have the same latch it’s still only going to be a few $ worth of manufacturing at most.
@Euphemistic: If I were the manufacturer, I would not be charging a few $ for repairs if the car is a premium brand. I already know the buyer can pay.
@Naigrabzo: And that’s exactly what’s wrong with the system.
Oh, and if you think a person who buys a mega dollar car would pay for such repairs, they don’t the warranty department falls all over them and provides it for zero because that’s how it works. Rich people get stuff fixed free - because rich and the business wants them to buy another one next year.
@Euphemistic: Many rich people I know would not blink at this repair cost let alone ask a forum about cheap fixes. Some would just get rid of a car for minor irritations like this one. I have one friend who just swapped a Jaguar SUV to the Audi Q3 due to a minor issue. They just said to me "Jaguar was getting on my nerves due to needing two repairs" No costs were mentioned. They just test drove the Audi for 2 minutes and bought it on the spot.
Many would not even remember such a minor cost of glove box. :)
Perhaps your friends are forgetting and not telling you about it.
I don't know why I read the title like it was a baby who was having trouble latching on for breast feeding time.
This whole post reminds me of that. :)
You lost me at G'day.
Can't believe no one has suggested the obvious solution.
Cable ties.
Yep and we dont even need to know the type of car. Cable ties will work with any car!
European
European cable ties are better, it in a pinch international cable ties will work.
@Euphemistic: Probably better to use European cable ties on European car otherwise the incompatible plastics can start rusting.
@Brick Tamland: Totally. You should only use international ones for short term. Don’t even consider using Chinese cable ties.
@Euphemistic: As long as they’re ISO or DIN standard cable ties they should work with Euro cars. Forget about ANSI or heaven forbid, Whitworth cable ties
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Customer states glove box won't latch.
We located a pen which was stopping the glove box from fully closing.
removes pen
Click!
removes pen
Click!
Stop clicking the pen and show us how to fix the glovebox!
What make and model of pen is it?
4 year old European pen
Have you turned it off and on again?
Thought I'd come back and give something more useful. If hubby is good at fixing things like this, then I assume he can take the parts to bits to try and identify the problem. It looks like on more premium cars, that there can be a central locking mechanism, which could potential be the source of the problem.
For your model of car, search for broken glove box latches on YouTube, and if you don't find the exact problem, then at least you get clues on how these latches work. It is usually a small cheap piece of plastic that has snapped, but of course they don't sell those. Make sure hubbie knows about using super glue and baking powder to rebuild difficult plastic bits.
how about the black?