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#41
Moan and Whine / Re: Audi Glove Box Removal. SI...
Last post by Bridgecity - Nov 24, 2025, 10:15 AMQuote from: Tortoise on Nov 24, 2025, 09:19 AMEvery time I think I want to replace the Highlander with an used Q7, I picture Ron's disapproving face and the feeling passes.
Hahahaha
#42
Moan and Whine / Re: Audi Glove Box Removal. SI...
Last post by Tortoise - Nov 24, 2025, 09:19 AMEvery time I think I want to replace the Highlander with a used Q7, I picture Ron's disapproving face and the feeling passes.
#43
Moan and Whine / Re: Audi Glove Box Removal. SI...
Last post by RRocket - Nov 24, 2025, 03:18 AMIt took a bunch of effort to figure out. As usual, totally asinine "engineering".
Have a look at that image. Look close near the front edge and the wall..there's a clip there. A completely invisible, impossible to see clip! Why? It's a glove box! And in the glove box all the other screws are exposed! I even texted an Euro mechanic and he didn't know either! LOL 😆
One obscure YouTube short solved the mystery.
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Have a look at that image. Look close near the front edge and the wall..there's a clip there. A completely invisible, impossible to see clip! Why? It's a glove box! And in the glove box all the other screws are exposed! I even texted an Euro mechanic and he didn't know either! LOL 😆
One obscure YouTube short solved the mystery.
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#44
Off-Topic / Re: Little things that make yo...
Last post by Firm - Nov 23, 2025, 10:44 PMAs a kid, family friends of ours had a proper arcade pinball machine in their basement and I used to look forward to visiting them a couple times a year so we could play it, theirs was Jurassic Park themed. I guess it kinda stuck with me and I've always kinda wanted one, but never had the space at our old place, nor could I justify the $, but I still would poke around on marketplace once and awhile. This showed up the other day, and it was only about 10 minutes from me, and a very good price, so I decided to grab it.
It's a 1987 'Special Force' model made by Bally Midway. In great working order, the cabinet could use a little love (which I'll do), but for nearly 40 years old it's in remarkable shape. These are highly collectable, though this one (or more so units from this era) is on the lower end of the desirability scale, it's still a lot of fun to play.
Childhood goal achieved
It's a 1987 'Special Force' model made by Bally Midway. In great working order, the cabinet could use a little love (which I'll do), but for nearly 40 years old it's in remarkable shape. These are highly collectable, though this one (or more so units from this era) is on the lower end of the desirability scale, it's still a lot of fun to play.
Childhood goal achieved
#45
Moan and Whine / Re: Audi Glove Box Removal. SI...
Last post by Firm - Nov 23, 2025, 10:26 PMIs that Valet switch holding you up? Sometimes those are clipped or screwed into their own bracket and need to be removed before you can pull that glovebox liner. Failing that, if you don't want to risk breaking it, got to a scrapyard that has an A5, tear it out, and then document all the mounting points......Or, find detailed photos of that glovebox on the internet, ebay auction or something, and maybe you can spot the other mounting point.
#46
Moan and Whine / Audi Glove Box Removal. SIGH!
Last post by RRocket - Nov 23, 2025, 03:40 PM2009 Audi A5
In the middle of an extremely frustrating effort to remove the glove box to get at the blower for replacement. Have had advice from "experts" saying there are only 5-6 screws and this is a 15 minute job.
Have so far removed 10 screws and glove box still won't come out after an hour. Another fine piece of German "engineering" it seems.
There seems to be a hidden screw which no video has shown and/or nobody seems to know about (or forgotten about).
There's 5 on the top edge, there's 1 in the back middle and one in extreme RH side (under a cover). And 4 on the bottom (which also hold the air bag on). And yet, it's still not coming out. Seems to be stuck on left side, but I see no further screws. Is there perhaps a screw behind the small, rectangular box? No video shows this though? But that box feels like it will break if I remove it and there seems to be no clips, buttons, snaps etc that hold it in. It definitely feels like it could break trying to remove.
I have uploaded a photo of the approximate location of screws I've removed (didn't include air bag screws, or one in extreme RH side).
Where is the mystery final screw? Anyone by chance done one of these?
In the middle of an extremely frustrating effort to remove the glove box to get at the blower for replacement. Have had advice from "experts" saying there are only 5-6 screws and this is a 15 minute job.
Have so far removed 10 screws and glove box still won't come out after an hour. Another fine piece of German "engineering" it seems.
There seems to be a hidden screw which no video has shown and/or nobody seems to know about (or forgotten about).
There's 5 on the top edge, there's 1 in the back middle and one in extreme RH side (under a cover). And 4 on the bottom (which also hold the air bag on). And yet, it's still not coming out. Seems to be stuck on left side, but I see no further screws. Is there perhaps a screw behind the small, rectangular box? No video shows this though? But that box feels like it will break if I remove it and there seems to be no clips, buttons, snaps etc that hold it in. It definitely feels like it could break trying to remove.
I have uploaded a photo of the approximate location of screws I've removed (didn't include air bag screws, or one in extreme RH side).
Where is the mystery final screw? Anyone by chance done one of these?
#47
Show and Shine / Re: I'm an Audi owner again.
Last post by blur911 - Nov 23, 2025, 01:40 PMQuote from: RRocket on Nov 23, 2025, 02:43 AMGeez....
Throw some Restore in there and hope for the best?
Hmmm, I can only find that stuff on Amazon. Can't hurt.
Any Canadian distributors?
#48
Show and Shine / Re: I'm an Audi owner again.
Last post by RRocket - Nov 23, 2025, 02:43 AMGeez....
Throw some Restore in there and hope for the best?
Throw some Restore in there and hope for the best?
#49
General Car Banter / Re: What Did You Do To Your Ca...
Last post by Blueprint - Nov 22, 2025, 08:43 PMEven auditing the thing cost millions 
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/commission-investigating-saaqclic-fiasco-cost-7-million/
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/commission-investigating-saaqclic-fiasco-cost-7-million/
#50
Show and Shine / Re: I'm an Audi owner again.
Last post by blur911 - Nov 22, 2025, 02:29 PMTried to charge it last night, found out my old battery charger seems to have bitten the dust,battery is even more dead than it was yesterday.