VAG fool
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I had read that the glovebox is considered non-servicable because it is a closed unit, so if the catches fail its landfill.
I bought one recently that had one non-working and broken latch pin, so thought that I would investigate further.
Reasoning that it is pretty light and creaked a bit under torsion, I reached for my widest trim tool and worked along the bottom edge, progressively going deeper to break the internal adhesive/weld and then along each side.
Fingertips in the gap, brave trousers on and pull! A sharp crack and the front and rear seperated cleanly.
What I found was:
1. The handle spring is impersonating an inchworm.
2. The broken (broken off!) longer slave rod couldnt move because its integral rack is moved by the reaction from a small, fixed position pinion which is rotated by the rack on the master locking rod, actuated directly by the handle.
The pinion axle is part of the inner cover and has broken off, so the pinion just rolls along as the master rod moves.
So, it needs some sort of shallow-headed pin bonded to the inner, plus a new head on the slave locking rod.
I bought one recently that had one non-working and broken latch pin, so thought that I would investigate further.
Reasoning that it is pretty light and creaked a bit under torsion, I reached for my widest trim tool and worked along the bottom edge, progressively going deeper to break the internal adhesive/weld and then along each side.
Fingertips in the gap, brave trousers on and pull! A sharp crack and the front and rear seperated cleanly.
What I found was:
1. The handle spring is impersonating an inchworm.
2. The broken (broken off!) longer slave rod couldnt move because its integral rack is moved by the reaction from a small, fixed position pinion which is rotated by the rack on the master locking rod, actuated directly by the handle.
The pinion axle is part of the inner cover and has broken off, so the pinion just rolls along as the master rod moves.
So, it needs some sort of shallow-headed pin bonded to the inner, plus a new head on the slave locking rod.
