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I'm trying to remove the glove box on my xA, but i cannot for the life of me figure out how. Does anyone have any instructions or tips? Please please Thanks in advance.

 

On my '06 I pulled mine out this way:

-Open glove box
-Locate the tabs on either side that act as stops
-With a little force, just pull the tabs away from the dash and pull toward you
-After the tabs are free, just pull it out!

There are no screws to remove... just be careful to not break anything. You might need a flat-head screw driver to help the tabs out.

 

squeeze the ends in that'll help bring in the tabs far enough in to pull out and free the glove box

 

Yeah what they said.

It's so boring I left the project completely unsatisfied. I didn't get to screw anything.

 

For some reason, the glove box in my wife's xB comes out real easy, but the one in my xA is freaking HARD to get out. With the xB, I just pop one side out, shift the glove box as far over to that side as I can, and pop the other side.....easy. Every time I do it to my xA (to change the in-cabin air filter) I feel like I'm going to break something.

 

Ditto....it is a PITA, but, the sides of the glove box give a good bit... I usually pop one side loose, go to the other side, pop it loose as the first side pops back, go back to the first side, pop it loose, hear the second side pop back...
I'd stay away from using anything to pry with, that plastic will not pop back in shape.

The main problem is there is no good place to get at it to get good leverage. But, if I haven't broken it, it must be pretty hard to break...

 

That is EXACTLY what I go through too!

 

So, what cuss word is best to use?

 

I try to keep it clean so that I don't accidentally cuss at work.

"Fudgesicles!" always works for me.
(Or, if you happen to be Milhouse, the alternate, 'Fudgeicles', is acceptable).

That glove box is hard to remove though. I got a surprise when I removed mine for the first time--there was already an air filter in there!

 

You are an honorable man, if you can keep it clean...

I think I'd have changed the filter even if it was clean, after what it tookj to get at it....

 

Nah. I just hit 3000 miles a few days ago. I will probably wait until 5000 (or whenever the manual says) to change the filter.

 

i want a K&N drop in air filter for my cabin filter non oiled pls

 

How many whp will that net you?

 

I guess it depends on how fast you put milage on your car. I have a very short commute. My car is exactly a year old now, and I only have 5,900 miles! If I went by milage, it would be almost a year between filters. I changed mine after about 3 months, and it was pretty dirty.

 

Man, I just hit 10k since April!!!

 

It only takes me 6 minutes to get to work. Eight if I hit either of the two traffic lights.

 

It takes me that long to get my glove box out......


Don't want a warning about getting off topic, you know......

 

I've never had a problem taking the glovebox out, putting it back in has proven to be..... finicky. I've run into a few instances where I don't get the bottom seated properly and just as I go to close it , the stupid thing falls out on one side.

As a rule of thumb: To remove the box, squeeze the sidez toward the center of the box. Applying the right amount of pressure is crucial, to little and it's not coming out, to much and you will have an anurism or you will crap yourself. You know when you have the right amount of force when you start to get slightly light headed.

 

Then I must be doing it right...as I am a little light headed right now....