Miata Mailing List: September 1995, Message #172
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   From: Brian Porter 
Subject: Re: Gorillas and Glove box removal
   Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 14:39:10 -0400

When I installed my aftermarket CD player, I ended up drilling a screw 
out b/c they seemed to have put it on using an air compressor. 

Brian Porter
Net Daemons Associates, Inc.                         (617) 937-3338 (PH)
400 W. Cummings Park, Suite 4250                     (617) 937-3775 (FAX)
Woburn, MA  01801-6509                               email: brian@nda.com

On Tue, 5 Sep 1995, Ken Walker wrote:

>      Hey everybody... this just in from the "enquiring minds want to know"
>      deptartment:
> 
>      Curious about just why the hell Miata glove boxes are torqued down so
>      tightly?  read on...
> 
>      Due to a break in by a vandal, I had the unfortunate experience of
>      replacing not only my glove box, but the strike plate and support beam
>      for it as well.  the support beam that the glove box screws into is
>      about 18" long and an inch or so in width.  Its machined out of rather
>      cheap and thin sheet metal.  Its strong enough to support a glove box
>      full of items, but its thin enough for you to bend it in half if you
>      remove it.  I also discovered that it is thin enough for a vandal to
>      bend while the glove box is installed, thus emptying its contents.
> 
>      At any rate when you buy a NEW support beam, the holes for the glove
>      box hinges to screw into are NOT pre-threaded.  They are juuuuust
>      barely big enough for the sheet metal screws to fit into.  If you
>      thought you had to be a gorilla to unscrew these things, you should
>      try hand torquing the screws INTO the damn beam!!  I had to get some
>      extra torque on it by using the ratchet handle from my socket wrench
>      with a phillips bit.
> 
>      I imagine that once the screws are threaded in and out a few times,
>      the beam and the screws will "get used to each other" but its pretty
>      obvious that Mazda didn't figure too many people would be taking out
>      their glove boxes!!
> 
>      kjw &
>      TIC-TAC
> 
> 
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: Glove box removal
> Author:  WORLD.FPOTTER1 at REMNET
> Date:    9/2/95 5:21 PM
> 
> 
> >4.  Remove the glove box, there is one screw at each hinge.  It is an easy
> >process.
> 
> I have yet to see a glove box whose screws could be easily removed. My own
> theory is that Mazda employs a demented gorilla to handle that part of the
> assembly process.
> 
> Frank
> 
> Frank Potter
> MEOWTA - 1993 Black/Red LE #290
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