Glove Box Mod: felting the inside, DIY

[RabbitsKin]

Here is a neat trick if anyone happens to be installing a lower glove box.

I've done this on both my MKIII's, people seem to like it so I figured I'd post how to do it.

Starting with just the lid, carefully removed from the shell:

Get some nice black felt, cut slightly oversize. Precisely cut a hole in the felt where the little divider rib is going to stick up through. This takes a little practice, depending on your manual dexterity . I measuread and drew it out as a template on a piece of paper first, lightly glued it to the felt, then cut out the hole with a ruler and an X-acto knife:

The idea is to make the slot look as factory as possible. Using 3M Spray 77, glue the felt in place. I saved the gluing of the folded-over parts for later. Now the tricky part -- working around the edge, tuck the felt into the little seam in the glovebox door. I had to use a couple of small screwdrivers and the back of the X-acto blade. It's a tight gap.

But it looks great when it's all done! In the corners I used a little bead of glue, and you can see where some of it seeped through the felt, so be careful. Here is the finished product installed. It is a little touch that no one but you will notice. But at least now your tire gauge and sunglasses won't be rattling around in there as much .

[BlueDevilCabby]

[heatsneakersXordinaires]

How do you get blunt guts out of the felt?

[BuzzKilla]

im not gonna lie, i hate when crap rattles around in my lower glove box, and i would have never thought of this.

i think i may apply this to my upper glove box, since most of my tools are in there anyways.

[jettajake00]

Quote, originally posted by heatsneakersXordinaires »

How do you get blunt guts out of the felt?

vacuum

[redskinsboy326]

i've thought about doing this...

i probably will.


Modified by redskinsboy326 at 11:35 AM 7-31-2008

[Dan J Reed]

Nice!!

[Naredmr2]

wow nice. Very cool little DIY. I might give this a shot

[Scooch]

That's pretty cool

[n0rdicalex.]

felching?

[nap83]

sweet stuff

[ThatGuy]

Like a mk5 right?

[RabbitsKin]

Quote, originally posted by heatsneakersXordinaires »

How do you get blunt guts out of the felt?

whatchootalkinabout?

[Mace_Windu]

that looks awesome.

flint is pimp

[98GTI2.0L]

box is too small already, i like it but can't spare the 0.8 cc of space.