Lots of stories of cracked dashes here. Haven't seen too many broken glove boxes...

Mine broke as I drove into a parking space at a local grocery store. It wasn't open, I didn't touch it, etc. etc. The freakin' thing just broke.

My series of truck comes with a glove box in four pieces. The outer skin, an inner skin, the latch and the glove "box" portion. The outer skin has three "tabs" that line up to three corresponding "rods" built into the lower dash. The outer skin broke where the middle tab was. The lower dash broke where the two outer rods were. Obviously I'm not buying a new lower dash and a new outer cover for the glove box. Hell, I'm cheap. My solution? Lowe's Hardware of course.

My repair list:

(2) Strong-Tie FB24Z fence rail hangars $.67 each
(2) 1/4 X 1 1/2 inch roll pins $.76 for a pkg of 2
(4) #10 X 1/2 inch self tapping screws. Less than $1


Broken lower dash:



Home made fix in progress:







Final version of the fix:



Finished! And not bad for about $10.

 

Ought to be a sticky? Great fix and with pictures too!!
I have saved it Just in case this happens to me.

 

How about a fix for the drop down cup holders?

My fix was to put a stick shift in and leave the thing latched up!

 

I am leaving the cup holder out and will be installing the radio(s) in its place..

 

Mine doesn't have the cup holder. In that place I have a little cubby hole, that is almost worthless.

So far I've done the upper dash, the glove box and I just rigged up a zip tie fix for the plastic trim around the seats (which of course is broken plastic crap). Next up is some work on the headliner and visors, which have begun to distort. My mirror in the passenger side came loose the other day.

Surely that's all that can go wrong.

 

What are you going to do when all 3 tabs break off the outer skin? That's where I'm at now. Glove box is sitting in the back seat.

 

That's nice work!

Simpson fasteners have all kind of potential uses.

 

Buy a dash compartment out of a manual shift truck. Remove cupholder assembly and install cubbyhole compartment.

No more cupholders, but, no more problems.