Hello, I'm trying to open the glovebox on my father-in-laws TR. I have hit the button and you can hear the mechanism shift but the door does not open. I have tried the "pull-cord" beneath the dash but still no luck. Can someone please tell first how does the door open if were to open. Does it pull down of lift up, etc. A pic of it opened would be great too. Thanks in advance.. John.
Dear Ferraristi, At least you know the power mechanism is working. The glove box door is just stuck. The glove box and and dash are leather covered fiberglass...both are prone to shrinking and warping. Try pulling on the emergency release. Keep in a pulled (open) position and push on the bottom (inwards toward dash ) of the glove box . The glove box swings open in a downward motion. The top of the box actually sits under that piece of dash-strip that runs accross the main dash. To prevent, I use leather preservative on the dash as well as the glovebox sides so the leather surface is silky smooth and not dry feeling ( no friction ) Shamile Freeze...Miami Vice !
Was there ever any other car with an electric glovebox release? Even any other Ferrari? I was amazed to find out about this after I got my car. Norwoods is having my glovebox straightened out and recovered because people must have been just clawing it open in the past without using the power release. Also that crummy cell phone bracket was tearing the leather.
Push the button to undo the lock, and then pound hard on the glovebox lid with the bottom of your fist......just like you are knocking on someone's door. It will open up......the leather sticks sometimes. I had to do this to mine......when I experienced the same thing as you. Brian Crall told me to do this.....worked like a charm !! It will be the cheapest repair you'll ever have on the car.
KEY HAS TO BE ON!!!!! Hit the button, if your hear a little motor type sound at least thats working, if not I think there is an emergency release cable in that area under the dash. Its probably already open.............you just have to pry it apart, as others have suggested I tried for a month to open a glove box in a lotus, I thought for sure it was broken, .....................leather stuck.........stupid me.
Ok, I'll give it another go, hopefuly it is just adheared leather. The mechanism clicks both emergency and electric button. Let you know.....
Well, mine has almost the opposite problem. It pops right open when you use either the lanyard at the right or the power button. It is very hard to make it latch closed, however. Usually requires a good smack right on top of the upper lip where the catch is - not very ladylike for your passenger after using the mirror. I had a new piece of leather made for the cracks and tears, but the fiberglass core is so warped by now that it sticks up about 1/2 inch or more at the leading edge. I have a couple of possible sources for another one and am looking at this time. Hope I don't have to fabricate one on my own.
I would be interested to know about your possible souces of a new one as mine has warped and lifted in one corner and spoils an otherwise tidy dash The only new ones I can find are over £1000!!! How easy do you think it would be to get a cover made? Mark.
I have two used/surplus sources on the west coast given to me by Norwoods who I am checking. As far as making one, I don't know - but surely not a thousand pounds! Actually, people have custom made things out of fiberglass before (like model airplanes and sailboats) that were full of various compound curves that this does not have...it looks like mostly straight lines at various angles. Actually, it might be possible to do it in aluminum on a sheet metal brake. Then you could laminate padding and recover it. Maybe that would not warp like the original. However, you do have to deal with the hinges, the lights, that mirror, and the latch... The guys that worked on mine say that there is a row of staples across the top of it that forms the weak point and the leather shrinks eventually and pulls it up there - so maybe this could be somehow eliminated. I did not see it with the leather cover off yet. OK - just one more question as long as we are obviously obsessing over this: Was this somehow supposed to open all by itself when you pushed the button? I was wondering what the big deal about the power release was if you still had to reach up and pull it back by hand anyway. Seems like just a magnetic latch would have worked as well if that is the case.
Yes, the BB512i has such a glovebox...and, the fuse for the mechanism is in the glovebox...how's that for Italian electrical engineering...
Hey what if he gets the glove box open, and there is $20k in there..........................I always dream of that when I get a new car.
I had this $250.00 Fiat 850 Spyder once, and when I got the seats out I found this plastic bag with some kind of brown leafy substance...it got tossed along with the 2x4s someone had nailed in place to support the floorboards.
Well, over the past 4 years, I have scratched the top of mine but have not been able to open it, even after the suggested remedies. Its a bummer too, because I have my leatherman in it. If any of you figure out a better way to open this darn thing, please let us know. Btw, I was afraid I would break it after knocking on it a bunch... which turned into hammering on it with my fist, but still no good
I bought a "re-possessed" Maserati back in 1990, I was at the time buying Jags and Porsches in Florida and driving them back to NY to sell to make a couple extra bucks between tours......Anyway, I get this '84 Biturbo with a MEI body kit on it and mono painted Arrest Me Red, great lookin' car.... to take home after attending the Daytona 500 the previous weekend. So before I head north I wash it up at a friends home in Hollywood, FL. So as I am washing it I notice that water is leaking through a window seal on the passenger door and then into the carpetig. I say, Sh*t, I wonder what the floor looks like if this has been an on going problem!". By the way, the car was repo'd from a crack dealer in Maryland with ONE payment left..........See where this is going???? I lift the carpet and there lies a quarter ounce of cocaine (we think)!!! I freak out and start to dismantle the interior and trunk to find small baggies ofweed and a variety of half smoked joints here and there under the seats. I tossed everything of course, but...................... Can you just imagine me with a shaved head (right after Geraldo got hit in the face with a chair on TV, so I was being refered to as a skinhead the whole weekend by the redneck donut heads in the infield at Daytona), New York tags, arrest me red Maserati, heading north from Florida on the 95, getting pulled over let's say around Woodbine, GA and trying to explain that, "I don't have any idea officer Buford how that got here!"............... By the way how far is the glovebox "suppose" to open when you hit the switch? Just a bit or completely? I agree with James Woods, that it seems quite ridiculous if it only pops open a bit.....What's the sence? Kerry
