If you own a G35, chances are the vinyl covering your upper glove box compartment has warped, rendering it useless. To replace it completely, you basically have to remove the entire center console and put in a healthy amount of work.

This is a quick fix to making your G35's upper glove box functional, and hopefully, also aesthetically pleasing. The idea is to drill a large headed screw into several spots in the vinyl pulling it back into place with the plastic.

First, measure out about 7 markers for where the screws are going in. Be precise.



Then, drill pilot holes with a pin vice for where these screws are going to go. You'll feel it go through the vinyl, then through the plastic. This is essentially in ensuring the final screws stay in place and don't strip.

Finally, drill the screws in. Make sure these screws are some sort of trust-head screw, or a large washer, because anything else will eventually tear or lose the vinyl it's trying to keep in place.



The final picture uses stainless steel screws, but if you find black anodized screws or paint them black yourself, it's barely noticeable. I like how the silver looks, so I kept it.

It took about 20 minutes, and it was an adequate enough fix for me to use the glove box in the future, and I don't ever have to worry about the vinyl adhesive warping again.

Hope that helps!

 

thanks for the DIY but even with black screws, its not going to look right imo.

 

Yeah, not my cup of tea...

 

At first I found it a bit jarring myself, but I've definitely warmed up to it. If it's between this and never having the adhesive wear, or ripping apart my dash every 50k, I'll take this. It's understandable it doesn't work for everyone.

 

i think it looks kinda cool like that.

 

its really not that hard to take out the glove box.

Takes about 10 min.

The glue drying is the longest part.

I used a few drops of gorilla glue and about 2 hours later I was rolling with a nice flat navi disc door.

 

Mine started to peel back about 2 years ago, about a year ago I removed the upper glove back and used high strength adhesive spray to put it back in place. the heat in the car has made it peel back again. I want to get another one on ebay but afraid its going to do the same thing soon. I like your idea actually because it wont peel again

 

If the color of the screws is close to the center stack color it should look okay.