Your glove box sag was caused by removing the glovebox from the air vent panel and not getting the hooks properly aligned or breaking them when reinstalling. To prevent this, you should always remove the glove box and air vent panel AS A SINGLE UNIT.
This is not necessarily the case. I'm the original owner of a 98 M3/4 It came with the glovebox slightly sagging. I also owned a '93 E36 325i before that and it too had a slightly sagging glovebox from the factory. It was never perfect. The door also starts to delaminate with age and the weight of it also pulls the frame of the glovebox opening away a little bit over time
its odd anything changes if you just drill and screw what already in place an causing a problem. You demonstrate that down pressure is required to close the gap, then just drill and screw anyway. Its hard to understand how that changes anything
The glovebox on my 1999 e36 M3 was fuhhhhhked up, lol. When restoring the car, I ended up buying 3 different gloveboxes just to make one good one. I used this technique to make it perfect. It works but follow the directions to the letter.
Tony Montana Countersink? Notice in the video I say not to do that because there isn’t enough material. You risk burning through it! Risky move. If you want to try it, be my guest. But I’d rather be safe and teach others to be safe rather than having people be upset they just blew a hole through their dash.
@@MasteringHow-To Excellent info. Maybe paint the screws in sort of the same color as the glove box. I have a black one, easier for me to camouflage. Great vid anyway!
before i tried this it would latch. after however it would just fall back down after pushing at any pressure. I tried backing out the screws a little which worked, but it would start to sag, and got a little touchy. considering buying a used assembly and switching out the lock.
Not sure. High chance the new one will do it too... they don’t make these anymore. So most likely the new box will have the issue. You could try to find one at a junk yard... but chances are taking it all apart in the process will break some clips
I take the time to make this video to help people. You’re screwing into your dash. I want to make sure you take your time so you don’t make a mistake. Instead of appreciating it. You gotta comment something like that?
