GLOVE COMPARTMENT

Nearside passenger glove compartment jammed shut will not open with key any ideas how to release it ?

not without damage...

Try pushing the glovebox lid upwards at the same time as you use the release catch. :-/

RON 28 wrote on 09. Jan 2011 at 12:38:

GLOVE COMPARTMENT Nearside passenger glove compartment jammed shut will not open with key any ideas how to release it ?

I bought a lid from scrapyard ( wrong lid as it happens) to look a how it worked and hopefully swop bits to fix. The handle part does come out which allows you open, strip and fit a new release mechanism if it is the same piece that was on mine. I broke the scrapyard handle but got mine off ok. I think the new piece was under £20 at dealers. If it is the later lid i might still have the bit you need.

dbr wrote on 09. Jan 2011 at 17:35:

RON 28 wrote on 09. Jan 2011 at 12:38: GLOVE COMPARTMENT Nearside passenger glove compartment jammed shut will not open with key any ideas how to release it ? I bought a lid from scrapyard ( wrong lid as it happens) to look a how it worked and hopefully swop bits to fix. The handle part does come out which allows you open, strip and fit a new release mechanism if it is the same piece that was on mine. I broke the scrapyard handle but got mine off ok. I think the new piece was under £20 at dealers. If it is the later lid i might still have the bit you need.

have you sorted it?

RON 28 wrote on 09. Jan 2011 at 12:38:

GLOVE COMPARTMENT Nearside passenger glove compartment jammed shut will not open with key any ideas how to release it ?

You shouldn't need the key to actually open the glove box, only to lock/unlock it.  :y