2004 Audi A4 Glove Box Hinge Repair Free Updated
2004 Audi A4 Glove Box Hinge Repair Free Updated
07-29-200912:08 AM #1
Veteran Member Iii Rings 
DIY: Set up broken glove box hinge
The right side hinge on my glove box door broke and I didn't want to pay $300 to supplant the entire glove box, so I did a few searches and plant an AZ member who sells hinge repair kits... His name is Fritz and he goes by PCYC. I figured "what the hell" and ordered one.
Fritz fabricated the subclass and I received it only a few days later on. It's a quality part, made of really strong steel. The screw holes were counter sunk, he included the screws and the whole affair was painted matt blackness.
I followed the included instructions and managed to remove the ii hinge pins that held the glove box door, and removed the door. Here'south a shot of my broken swivel:
The bracket Fritz provided fit the curves of the hinge perfectly. I spent some fourth dimension making sure it was lined up properly, drilled 4 1/16" pilot holes for the screws, and installed the subclass. I also put a liberal amount of crazy glue on the break, but information technology actually wasn't necessary.
While I had the door off I removed the piston that is connected to the door. Just unclip the wiring harness, and twist the piston effectually until knob that connects information technology to the glove box lines up merely right and it volition popular off. I tried to move the piston in and out and had to really utilise a lot of strength, clearly this was the reason that the swivel broke in the offset identify. I considered leaving it disconnected, but if I did that the calorie-free wouldn't piece of work. And so, I drilled a minor pigsty in the end of the piston, and dribbled some oil in there. Later on I worked the piston back and forth a few times it started moving easily. The hole isn't very big, I used the same one/16" scrap, and so at that place is nonetheless some negative pressure level that slows the piston's movement a fleck.
Here'south where I drilled the hole:
And here'southward the piston attached back to the glove box, information technology just needs to be rotated back around so the back of the part (with the pigsty) is pointing toward the forepart of the automobile:
When I reinstalled the glove box door I constitute that the swivel bracket was rubbing confronting the part of the glove box that surrounded it, and then I used my dremel to sand but a tiny bit off the front of the surround to make information technology a bit bigger. I didn't take any pics of that, simply it volition be obvious where you need to sand if yous run into the aforementioned problem. Problem solved, so I reinstalled the pins holding the door to the glove box, connected the piston and the wiring harness, and that was information technology.
I can't say enough about the quality of the office that Fritz makes, it was well worth the $25. The bracket is practically invisible from within the car, you have to be looking for it to even meet it, and the repair makes information technology merely like the glove box door was never cleaved. If you lot have a broken hinge on your glove box this is the way to go, just pm PCYC and he will set you lot upwards.
Dave
07-29-200909:09 AM #ii
Veteran Member Four Rings 
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup west/pics
Nice write up Dave. I'one thousand sure it volition be helpful to quite a lot of people. 
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07-29-200909:24 AM #3
Senior Member Iv Rings 
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
I'LL BE Back.........
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07-29-2009ten:42 AM #4
Account Terminated Iv Rings
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
Would you mind crossposting this or letting me crosspost it in the B7 A4 section? There's a lot of guys over in that location who could really use this info, myself included.
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07-29-200910:55 AM #v
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Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
Originally Posted by 12sA4 
Would you mind crossposting this or letting me crosspost it in the B7 A4 section? There's a lot of guys over there who could really use this info, myself included.
Hi, go correct alee, I don't mind at all.
Dave
07-29-200912:45 PM #six
Veteran Member 4 Rings 
Re: Fixed broken glove box swivel - writeup westward/pics
Same method I used, there is a DIY on here about making the bracket yourself.
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07-29-200902:twoscore PM #seven
Veteran Member Iii Rings
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
Originally Posted past beemercer
Aforementioned method I used, there is a DIY on hither about making the subclass yourself.
Yeah, I know, simply I didn't have an appropriate piece of metal on hand nor do I accept the right tool to cut it into the proper shape then buying the completed bracket seemed like the way to become. $25 shipped was a cheap price to pay to get my glove box back in service, and the install was involved plenty that I was still able to go a pretty proficient "diy high" out of the bargain.
07-thirty-200903:48 PM #8
Registered Member One Ring
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup due west/pics
I have a 2005 A4 with this exact problem. Audi dealership wants $427 to replace glove box door. Please let me know how to club swivel repair part from Fritz. Thanks
07-thirty-200903:51 PM #ix
Senior Member 2 Rings 
Re: Stock-still broken glove box hinge - writeup due west/pics
Mine just broke last weekend..Thanks for sharing!!
07-30-200903:52 PM #ten
Veteran Member Three Rings
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup due west/pics
Originally Posted by Dougsville
I have a 2005 A4 with this exact problem. Audi dealership wants $427 to supersede glove box door. Delight let me know how to order hinge repair office from Fritz. Thank you
Merely go to your profile and click on "send new message" in the Individual Messages section on the left side of the screen. Enter his username (PCYC) in the recipient box, type your message and click "ship."
Dave
07-xxx-200904:04 PM #11
Registered Fellow member One Ring
Re: Fixed cleaved glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
Thanks dave, merely sent asking to Fritz.
07-30-200905:52 PM #12
Veteran Member Three Rings 
Re: Fixed broken glove box swivel - writeup w/pics
Overnice I didn't know this product existed, looks a trivial rough but sure beats 300$. Thanks for sharing with the class, bookmarked for when mine breaks.
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08-05-200908:29 AM #13
Veteran Member Three Rings 
Re: Stock-still cleaved glove box swivel - writeup westward/pics
Nice write upwardly dave. i am sad i havent seen this nonetheless. for anyone wondering I however brand these, just Pm for details.
hope this helps everyone
08-15-200901:10 PM #14
Account Terminated Four Rings
Re: Stock-still broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
Just stock-still mine with your kit. Cant cheers plenty!! I was well-nigh 12 hours abroad from my appt with the dealer to get it replaced ($435) when I saw this thread.
The hardest part was getting those damn pins out. Nothing some needle-nose pliers and a hammer can't fix though.
Thanks again!
08-15-200901:24 PM #xv
Active Fellow member One Ring 
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup due west/pics
Thanks, Dave and Fritz. The first fourth dimension around I paid the dealer to replace information technology. Now seeing that this is a mutual problem I volition use this remedy should I feel a repeat intermission. The other common hinge that breaks is in the armrest. I guess that at that place are probably some forum notes on this somewhere, too.
08-22-200906:03 PM #16
Veteran Member 4 Rings 
Re: Fixed cleaved glove box hinge - writeup due west/pics
i had the same trouble with my glove box, broken hinge. i've read a few threads here and saw somebody got his fixed by dealership at no toll. so i took my machine in, they looked at information technology and they ordered some part they said. they called me when got the role and had it installed. i was surprised to see that the actual part was the hole glove box and the nice part it was no cost, the car however existence under the factory warranty. i tought this would exist helpfull for some of u guys. they cannot really say it'south tear and wear, when they made a bad piston. i call up they should accept recall for that problem. so give it a try and get there showing that u know the problem.
08-24-200901:50 AM #17
Veteran Fellow member Four Rings 
Re: Fixed cleaved glove box hinge - writeup west/pics
I must take missed this the showtime time around. Bully writeup, Ive seen this before on several peoples cars at car meets. Now Ill have a link to send them
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09-02-200905:27 AM #18
Veteran Member Iv Rings 
Re: Fixed cleaved glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
How the hell did you get the 2 pins out that agree the box in. I tried to grab them with a visegrip just they dont move!
09-02-200905:37 AM #19
Veteran Member Three Rings 
Re: Stock-still cleaved glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
Proficient timing. Mine broke last week.
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09-02-200906:15 AM #twenty
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Re: Stock-still broken glove box hinge - writeup due west/pics
Originally Posted past brad65ford
How the hell did you get the 2 pins out that hold the box in. I tried to take hold of them with a visegrip but they dont move!
You merely have to take patience and keep at it, the first time you remove those pins it's a real pita. I of the pins on my glove compartment seemed like it just wasn't going to come out, I messed with information technology for more than an hour. I finally got it by putting the vice grips on it, then moving the vice grips back and along while tapping on the vice grips with a hammer to motility the pin out.
09-02-200906:35 AM #21
Veteran Fellow member 4 Rings
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
wow I spent xv mins tring to get them to motility and I got no where I'll keep tring. I would be so much easier to work on with the door out.
09-02-200908:22 AM #22
Veteran Member Three Rings
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
It'southward probably easier if you have the glove compartment out of the car first, I would take washed that if I knew what a hurting it would be to get the pins out.
09-02-200908:41 AM #23
Account Terminated Iv Rings
Re: Stock-still broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
I took the glovebox out, grabbed the pins with a pair of needle-nose pliers, queezed Really HARD with 1 hand, and used a hammer with my other mitt to striking the pliers until the pins came out.
09-02-200909:33 AM #24
Veteran Fellow member Iv Rings
Re: Fixed cleaved glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
Homo how the hell designs these stupid things. Then stupid
09-02-200909:46 AM #25
Account Terminated 4 Rings
Re: Stock-still cleaved glove box swivel - writeup westward/pics
now practice ane on 'my glove box was too stiff, so I fixed it'
my glovebox was nightmarishly stiff from new. I read a couple of threads and constitute last week that there is a TSB and the dealer will ready the 'too stiff' piston that causes the problem. Chosen the dealer, and told them...service guy came out to check the car and when I click the latch, WHAMMO...no longer strong. Works perfectly.
So strange. Anyhow, mine is cured. No thought how.
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10-02-200906:27 PM #26
Registered Member I Ring
Re: Fixed cleaved glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
I take the broken glovebox problem and disassembled the piston and am working on removing the ii hinge pins under the glovebox to remove the door and they will not budge. has everyone else had this trouble? ive tried almost everything and no matter how difficult i pull they will not come out. can anyone aid with this?
ten-02-200907:59 PM #27
Veteran Fellow member Three Rings
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup due west/pics
Originally Posted by JKells05
I take the cleaved glovebox problem and disassembled the piston and am working on removing the ii hinge pins under the glovebox to remove the door and they volition non budge. has anybody else had this problem? ive tried near everything and no matter how hard i pull they will not come up out. tin can anyone help with this?
Clip the vice grips on the pin, then motility them dorsum and forth while tapping on the vice grips with a hammer to dorsum the pin out of the hinge. It's a major pain just the pivot will come up out, yous just demand to keep at it.
10-07-200905:33 PM #28
Registered Member 1 Band
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
yeah these pins will not budge a bit ive tried only pulling them, twisting them, pretty much everything and im not getting any movement out of them. whatsoever other ideas?
10-07-200905:46 PM #29
Registered Member One Ring
Re: Stock-still broken glove box swivel - writeup w/pics
i actually got them out about 10 minutes after that mail service haha. that was a bitch, vice grips and leverage are a must
x-07-200907:17 PM #30
Veteran Member Three Rings
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
Originally Posted past JKells05
i actually got them out about 10 minutes after that postal service haha. that was a bitch, vice grips and leverage are a must
Glad you got it to work!
10-23-200904:55 PM #31
Veteran Member Iii Rings 
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
just got back from the dealership and they wanted $330 for this, lol
pm incoming PCYC!
10-24-200901:59 PM #32
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Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup due west/pics
So weird..... the lower right hinge on my glovebox snapped this morn. Look like I volition exist referring to this thread in the near future.
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xi-29-200909:04 AM #33
Active Member One Band
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
oh human being, i retrieve the plastic housing around my pivot is going to crack before i get this pivot out. I can already encounter a crack forming. I've almost chewed the head off completely using vice grips.. Mine is not budging AT ALL.. It's not fifty-fifty moved 1mm.
I'chiliad thinking nigh drilling a hole from the outside, so i can bang information technology out.. It seems the other side has a pigsty and then you lot can blindside it out.
xi-29-200910:14 AM #34
Veteran Fellow member Three Rings
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
I was having a hell of a time, but a small pair of vice grips worked. Only twisted it a bit back and along and both pins came out. Weird that vice grips arent working for you.
I had to do a trivial bending and what non to get the swivel to fit, and dremeled part of the glovebox surrond, simply it ended up working.
Too had to drill a hole in the piston head and oil it a petty bit, considering that thing was not moving back and forth at all.
eleven-thirty-200908:16 AM #35
Agile Fellow member One Ring
Re: Fixed broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
Thanks, I finally managed to get the pins out... On i side, there'south a hole so i managed to punch it down with using a pigsty dial and hammer.. On the other side, being that there was no hole, i had no choice but to drill one.. Using vice grips was not working for me.. I even dremmelled out some of the surroundings to get a improve grip. None of which worked. I fifty-fifty virtually broke my nose tip pliers and vice grips from over use of my hammer.. Mine were not coming out.. And then this is for those who have the same problem.. Drill a pigsty and punch it out... Yes i have a small hole now, but it's very depression down and yous'd never notice it unless you were looking..
As for the residue of the job, i'd say it's adequately complicated.. I had problem lining it all up.. The part never really was a snug fit and it took some playing around and in the finish i had to re-install it a 2 or three times to become it all lined up...
But information technology's in now.. i hope it holds with the new subclass? Fourth dimension will tell...
12-xiii-200905:59 PM #36
Veteran Member Three Rings
Re: Fixed cleaved glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
the pins Exercise suck. I am even so in business, as long every bit its not to much troble I volition proceed helping anybody out.
Cheers Guys
Fritz
01-17-201008:l AM #37
Established Member Two Rings
Re: Stock-still broken glove box hinge - writeup west/pics
Just ordered a fix information technology kit from Fritz.
2 S4's 3 broken glove boxes. The first 2 were under warrantee. In spite fo carbon cobweb trim curling off, broken glove boxes, leaky valve covers, and some disappearing oil, this S4 is still my virtually favorite car to bulldoze in my 40+ years of owning a lot of different rides. Really.
01-31-201004:17 PM #38
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Re: Stock-still broken glove box hinge - writeup w/pics
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03-fourteen-201009:47 PM #39
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I am notwithstanding some other happy customer.
Got the bracket this calendar week and got the glove box fixed yesterday.
Cheers Fritz!
03-23-201011:30 PM #40
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i canNOT for the dearest of god remove the passenger side pin. I used vicegrips and fifty-fifty dremeled around the pin to gain clearance for a better grip only to no avail. the door is off because i got the other pin out, but i need to remove the last pin to get to the hinge. any other tips?
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