Glove Compartment Button
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2004 S55 ///AMG, 2007 E350
Glove Compartment Button
The black paint on button that opens the glove compartment(below the lock) is flaking off.
Besides changing the whole unit which includes the button and lock ($250), do you have any suggestions as to how cure this minor issue?
Thanks.
Besides changing the whole unit which includes the button and lock ($250), do you have any suggestions as to how cure this minor issue?
Thanks.
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Corsa, if you are referring to the stickiness of the button, take some alcohol and apply it to the button, keeping the solution off the leather. It takes some rubbing but it cleans up nicely. When done, apply a little Armor All to the button. I did mine and it came out better than new. Now I've got to do the steering wheel buttons.
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2004 S55 ///AMG, 2007 E350
No, not stickiness Jud, the black paint on the button is flaking off and exposing the white plastic underneath. An accidental scratch by a key must have removed a little paint thus more is flaking off now.
Of course there is no functional harm just cosmetically bothersome for an otherwise perfect car. I will probably just buy the part and replace it myself, the lock gets taken out of the old unit and inserted into the new one, so I don't have to change keys for glove compartment.
Of course there is no functional harm just cosmetically bothersome for an otherwise perfect car. I will probably just buy the part and replace it myself, the lock gets taken out of the old unit and inserted into the new one, so I don't have to change keys for glove compartment.
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2020 AMG GT-R PRO
samething happened to mine, and well i still haven't fixed it... mine actually *bubbled* from the inside and i haven't came to a sense of spending 250 dollars on a button..
still trying to find ways of fixing it!
still trying to find ways of fixing it!
