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Title: 131 Brava Glovebox rattle
Post by: leeputmanjr on June 01, 2011, 06:25:39 PM
My 131 Wagon has the later Brava style 'slider' glovebox.  It works properly, but rattles horribly.  How does one solve this?

Thanks!

-Lee


Title: Re: 131 Brava Glovebox rattle
Post by: mirafioriman on June 01, 2011, 06:59:31 PM
It is screwed to the main dash from underneath. My guess would be the screws are loose, missing or one or more of the mountings are broken. I take it it is empty and still rattling?


Title: Re: 131 Brava Glovebox rattle
Post by: leeputmanjr on June 01, 2011, 08:16:40 PM
Yes, it's the two sliders rattling in it's tracks...and stuffing a matchbook in it doesn't really help :(


Title: Re: 131 Brava Glovebox rattle
Post by: mirafioriman on June 01, 2011, 09:12:35 PM
Perhaps there is a part broken or missing in the slider mechanism then.


Title: Re: 131 Brava Glovebox rattle
Post by: david on June 17, 2011, 07:26:38 PM
I remember removing the dash boards on these mk2 131's to rectify this problem and there were two types of clips.
As I recall there were four plastic type clips (that had a ball bearing each) per lid so eight in total but these would fail with age and Fiat changed them to a totally metal type clip after the first year (which wasn't as smooth an action as the earlier type and didn't have a ball bearing as I recall ?) so they must have had some of the original plastic type clips fail during fist year?
I did have some spare later metal type clips somewhere but god knows where but I will look over the weekend if you like but can't promise anything as they may have got lost ?