How to remove glove box door?

[sun tortise]

Dumb question, but searched and could not find how to remove the glove compartment door on an 83 W123 without mangling something. I need to switch one that the latch actually works correctly for one that needs to be jiggled endlessly to make it stay shut. Or better, is there a way to fix the ones that wont stay shut? Seems that most of them have this problem.



Thanks!

[if6was9]

Usually it's the spring in the latch that that fails which causes the latch to not latch.

[kuene]

I think from the factory the glovebox hinges are fastened with some of those 2 pin security bit screws.

[vwnate1]

I cheated and ever so gently pried the left side rubber out of the dash on the limiting strap ~ this allowed *just* enough clearance to work it free, allowing the entire door to be tipped slightly and removed .

[jay_bob]

That may well be the “official” method to do this, and is probably the reverse of the way they put it together in the factory.

[vwnate1]

I just try to be pragmatic and not damage anything.....

[my83300cd]

I found that the door part was fine, it was the keeper on the dash that was worn.

[vwnate1]

That piece is properly called the 'striker' .

Were you able to find a new one or had to make do with used ? .

[sun tortise]

using pointy little pliers, i easily removed the 2 security nuts, but that only made the hinges looser, far from removing the door. Why is this so tricky. Did the Fuhrer store gold bricks in his Mercedes' glove box ?

[vwnate1]

You need a tool called a pin wrench for those nuts but as you've discovered, they don't really facilitate removing it from the car .