[T3] Parts Request

[Jim Adney]

On 31 Mar 2012 at 9:49, Brent Bottolfson wrote:

> On 3/31/12 9:33 AM, Jim Adney wrote:
> > On 31 Mar 2012 at 8:47, Brent Bottolfson wrote:
> >
> >> Also, a glove box strap.
> > The one that wraps around the outside of the glove box and screws
> > together at the bottom?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > If so, that is welded to the body at the top.
> > I guess that's a part I've never thought to save. Someone would have
> > to cut it out of a junk car and you'd have to weld it back in place.
> 
> I may be in trouble...  I don't remember taking it apart, but there is 
> no strap up under the dash.  Welding isn't an option; the car was just 
> painted.  Maybe I can come up with an alternative way to mount.
> 
> Funny thing is, the glove box fit fine before I took it out.  I would 
> have saved the strap if it had broken at a weld and fixed it.

Any chance the body shop broke it off when they painted under the 
dash? I think you should be able to feel where it anchored, just 
above the top center of the glove box hole.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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