what have you done to your car today ?

[MoToJoJo]

Yup, front passenger door was locked shut.

The rears are worse?
How is that possible?

Front: Take everything off, look at lock, smash lock, open door.

Rear: Take everything off (including faffing about with the pin holding the glass in place, take out the rest of the small glass piece that’s a bitch to refit, ease the glass out with much swearing). Then get a dremel with a cutting disc on an extension to the mechanism that you can’t see because it’s buried, take out piece after piece until door opens

 

[Thai-wronghorse]

Also worth noting that's its incredibly easy to break the rear window regulator slider clips off whilst removing or installing the plastic locking pin.
If you break this then you'll need to take it all apart again to fit a replacement.
I've stripped loads and it's still a gamble as to whether I get them apart without breaking them - fvcking things!

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[smutts]

Just in case you use insulating tape to hold the glass up in the door, whilst removing the door steel card.
It held the glass up fine.
It also pulled off some of the rather tired silver paint from the frame.
Not that I could give a toss. But if you suffer from polishititus it might worry you.

 

[Rich.T]

Great!
Ordered a new lock for the osr.
Looking forward to fitting that now!

 

[iammooks]

Also worth noting that's its incredibly easy to break the rear window regulator slider clips off whilst removing or installing the plastic locking pin.
If you break this then you'll need to take it all apart again to fit a replacement.
I've stripped loads and it's still a gamble as to whether I get them apart without breaking them - fvcking things!

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I was wrestling with the window and the regulator just to fit the peg and dowel that the garage didn't replace - so it's made my blood run cold to find out that I dodged a massive and expensive bullet through sheer dumb luck.


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[Manic172]

Will just leave this here

 

[Scotty_b]

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It will work so much better if fitted...


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[Sl1ced]

It will work so much better if fitted...


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Haha comment of the day


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[Manic172]

It will work so much better if fitted...


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Could say that about every thing I have bought lol and the car it's self

 

[Manic172]

Does look good there tho

 

[MoToJoJo]

Finally had enough of this

So now it looks like this

 

[Scotty_b]

Finally had enough of this
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So now it looks like this

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Nice, what glove box is that out of?


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[Rich.T]

What happened to the cd player?
Replaced with a cd head unit?

 

[MoToJoJo]

Glovebox is out of an A3, even the shelf underneath the glovebox is lined. Only problem was the airbag switch was a different size so may adapt that or just move it.

Changer was made redundant by a CD head unit many moons ago, now the head unit’s been made redundant by the stripped interior

 

[Thai-wronghorse]

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[iammooks]

Finally had enough of this
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So now it looks like this

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Holy crap - you can take them out? I just thought I was stuck with the most useless glove box that ever existed.


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[MoToJoJo]

Holy crap - you can take them out? I just thought I was stuck with the most useless glove box that ever existed.


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Been a while since I did mine but I think I just opened then CD changer door and pulled it out. Don’t quote me on that though.

Oh, and anyone considering the A3 (I think TT may fit as well) swap, unless you want to relocate the airbag switch (mine is where the head unit used to be atm) or trying your hand at adapting the opening, Thai’s bit is your best solution

 

[Rich.T]

Holy crap - you can take them out? I just thought I was stuck with the most useless glove box that ever existed.


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And nowhere to store your cd's lol

 

[iammooks]

It's not something I ever thought about - since I owned the car, I've had a little cubby on the right hand side and the CD changer slot on the left, and it's never been much good for storing anything. I don't know if there was ever a CD changer in the car, but now you're talking about it, I'm wondering if all of them came like that or if the changer got taken out before I bought it.


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[MoToJoJo]

If there's nothing at the back (like in my first pic) then someone took out the changer