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YOUR RESEARCHGlove compartment retrofit for early 996?
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the "I fixed it" was the home made repair not Porsche's failure to provide cup holders and a place for food
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the "I fixed it" was the home made repair not Porsche's failure to provide cup holders and a place for food
Still can't believe Porsche would not have included a glove compartment for 996 until 2002 model year, I have not attempted to remove the lower cover below the passenger side airbag compartment of my 2000 to see if the space behind the cover is hollow.
Has anyone considered or attempted to fit a glove compartment from 2002+ 996 to the pre-2002 996? Is it even possible? i.e. airbag mechanism does not protrude below into that space behind the lower cover?
TIA
Yes, glad you agree that Porsche failed in a big way for not providing a glove compartment like all other marques, truly a failure of major proportion.
Now is there another link that actually deals with if a glove compartment can be deviced?
Yes and most of us still live in igloos too, are there special curved shingles we can purchase and install to avoid the melt-down during summer time here? And how would we attach these compound curvature shingles?
It's August 20. I figured you guys would be shoveling and plowing by now.
Seriously, I think you would have to buy the whole dash for replacement. Cutting into your existing dash would require mad fabrication skillz.
I did not misread your post, my posting was intended to be just as tongue in cheek as your initial response, I just figured a senior member with as many post as you have would have had a more constructive post.
Agreed, and perhaps that's why Porsche didn't initially put in a glove compartment, but they added it in 2002, must have recognized the demand for it.
It seems to be possible, although this is more involved than I had hoped for so unlikely to proceed with this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Porsc...item519a986811
, while this is the MK II item, there is a statement in the ad that it can be retrofitted to earlier MK I cars "with additional parts".
Hopefully this will be an useful info for the next person who asks this question, unlike a couple of the responses I received in this thread.
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