Glove box - damped opening?

AllStar · Jun 9, 2015

Only just noticed on my 2012 that the glove box just drops undamped when opened - are they all like that or has something broken? Think it rattles a bit too.. Hurrumph.

Neilr · Jun 9, 2015

u102768 posted a link to the Jaguar fix in http://www.jaguarforum.com/showthread.php?t=79631:

u102768 said:
It is mentioned in that thread, but here is the official solution:

Glovebox Damping

AllStar · Jun 9, 2015

Many thanks for that, Neil

Ian D · Jun 9, 2015

I think we could do with having a stickies sub forum as now the car has ceased production, more and more people will be trying to repair the car themselves. Also stops the same questions cropping up too.

Neilr · Jun 9, 2015

Ian D said:
... stickies sub forum ...

Would be good, especially if it could be factual, lightweight, and easy to use. The subjective stuff ideally needs weeding out to make it really good.

AllStar · Jun 9, 2015

All fixed so thanks again for the link. Only tweak left to do is the push button seems to stick out a bit too much, will tweak it later.

Sticky sounds a good idea. I didn't read the lock thread as it wasn't the topic I thought I'd need. Thread creep is useful if you read everything though!

Neilr · Jun 9, 2015

AllStar said:
Thread creep is useful if you read everything though!

Glad you are sorted. I tend to dump potentially useful, good info into text files, etc. and then have one place to search first.

8bit · Jun 9, 2015

Think the thread creep in that one was my fault! Glad you found it one way or another anyway though. Out of interest, how did you fix the issue, did you use the method given in the Jaguar TSB?

AllStar · Jun 10, 2015

Thanks 8bit, glad you did

I did indeed use the Jaguar TSB method. I bought some split pins from Halfords - a whole £1.36 or something for quite a few. Fiddliest bit of the process (I found) was refitting the glove box. It's best to insert the top section first, do up the two torx screws (right side first, then left), then the side one, then bottom two last. All lines back up perfectly that way.

8bit · Jun 10, 2015

OK, thanks! I'll hopefully have a go this week.

8bit · Jul 6, 2015

Finally got mine fixed at the weekend. Glove box door has got its grace back at the cost of some pace

ETA - thanks for the help, folks.

One other problem cropped up at the time, the lock barrel for the glovebox simply fell out while I was removing the glovebox to do the fix. Is this supposed to be loose like that, or is it meant to be stuck in somehow?

Jaysjag · Jul 8, 2015

Think that's the norm with the locking barrel. Mine came out under some heavy acceleration one time scared the c**p out of me

Glove box - damped opening?

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