Broken Glove Box - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

BoingoBongo · 12-23-2009, 05:07 PM

Hi,

Yesterday my glove box began to open much more "forcefully" than usual. Typically there's some resistance, but now it just clunks open as soon as I pull the latch. After some investigating, I noticed that this piece on the right side is loose:

It doesn't appear broken, but I don't know where it's supposed to connect or how to get behind the glove box to fix it. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

cabur · 12-23-2009, 05:27 PM

That's the stay for the bottom box.
Check your manual pg. 341

ej063090 · 12-23-2009, 05:47 PM

Thats how you replace your cabin air filter. You remove that stay to pull down the glove box. If it was replaced by the dealer or someone else i would take it back in case it was broken. Otherwise i would try to snap it back on like how it is supposed to.

BoingoBongo · 12-23-2009, 05:52 PM

Oh man, thank you!

I had my 20,000 mile service done yesterday and it looks like they detached the wrong end and must've forgotten to reattach it. Hopefully I did it correctly.