Rebuilt interior plastic parts (glovebox)

[s8ilver]

Man this stuff is great!

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Now a vote: black or beige screw caps? You know, since I now actually have something to put the screws into...

Beige:

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Black: (haven't tried these yet but you know what black looks like)

Next up, black center console and door hockey sticks. Black glove box is about ready to go in too, reinforced and Plast-aid'd.

[KJ79]

Man this stuff is great!

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Now a vote: black or beige screw caps? You know, since I now actually have something to put the screws into...

Beige:

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Black: (haven't tried these yet but you know what black looks like).

Go with what you like obviously, but, I think my preference would be black. I can't find a clear online pic example with a beige dash and dark lower half, but, the entire point of the caps is to not draw your eye to the screws and holes "pay no attention here" so to speak, to blend and appear seamless. It goes against that mindset and creates its own unique look. Which isn't bad, just different.

[s8ilver]

Go with what you like obviously, but, I think my preference would be black. I can't find a clear online pic example with a beige dash and dark lower half, but, the entire point of the caps is to not draw your eye to the screws and holes "pay no attention here" so to speak, to blend and appear seamless. It goes against that mindset and creates its own unique look. Which isn't bad, just different.

Yeah I've never really seen a pic either, but I wasn't about to pull the dash and go black there. Since the black speaker grills tie into the black vents, I figured black hockey sticks and glove box/under panel made sense too, but if I hate it I'll just change it back. The edge of the hockey sticks flare out to line up with those panels.

I'm inclined to agree with the black caps, but I only had the beige on hand so figured what the heck, I'll give them a try. My black console came without an OBD cover, so either I find a black one or rock the beige there too.

[BimmerBreaker]

Those caps are meant to hide the screws. Using beige caps in a black part draws more attention to them.... To be perfectly honest it looks really bad. No caps would look better

[Vintage42]

Man this stuff is great...

The plastic repair kits are quite good. I have not used Plast-Aid, but have use Plastex which is similar. But even with some smearing, their repairs are little more than butt welds which are no stronger than the original plastic, if that. For strong mending of broken screw tabs, I use the plastic repair kits only to set the broken parts back into alignment. The repaired tab can easily break again under the stress of installation. So I coat the repaired tab with a jacket of JB Weld, engulfing the metal screw clip but leaving the hole open, far back into the main body of the panel.

[s8ilver]

Those caps are meant to hide the screws. Using beige caps in a black part draws more attention to them.... To be perfectly honest it looks really bad. No caps would look better

Black caps were delivered today.

The beige caps still hide the screws though, attention grabbing or not. But yeah, they draw attention to the mounting location. I'm still missing a driver's side door panel, so my eye only goes there right now.

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The plastic repair kits are quite good. I have not used Plast-Aid, but have use Plastex which is similar. But even with some smearing, their repairs are little more than butt welds which are no stronger than the original plastic, if that. For strong mending of broken screw tabs, I use the plastic repair kits only to set the broken parts back into alignment. The repaired tab can easily break again under the stress of installation. So I coat the repaired tab with a jacket of JB Weld, engulfing the metal screw clip but leaving the hole open, far back into the main body of the panel.

That's not a bad idea. The driver's side panel went back in just fine and nothing else broke, but I may encapsulate the glove box tabs' screw clips before tossing that back in. I bought the black pieces second hand for super cheap, so I was ok experimenting with a repair.

[sandbarbound]

Bringing this thread back to life. I am going to have to rebuild the tabs, but also on the dash itself I have nothing there to mount to. As the glove box came out I had crumbled plastic everywhere. This car sat mothballed in the South Carolina sun and it really took its toll on the plastics.

Anyone have any pictures of the dash itself where the two screws in the glove compartment mount straight upwards to?

[sandbarbound]

Here’s where some mounting tabs should be, I just have no idea what they’d look like

[yinzerinmass]

Pretty funny I was doing the exact same thing and stumbled on this post. I was repairing my sagging glove box with the ND kit and fixing the temp control knob and found the glove box mounting tabs crumbling or disintegrated. Here's my take on the repair:

I used some tiger hair epoxy filler to reform the mounts in a similar way that you did. I also reinforced the abs by heating up a small washer and melting it into the abs before building up new tabs, don't get too carried away on this part and make a mess. For anyone trying this out, you can use foil HVAC duct tape (real duct tape, not cloth) to create a form to build up the tab.

When the epoxy hardens it wont stick to the foil tape. Then use a dremel and utility knife to bring it into shape. Here's a couple pics, and the OP's strength test.
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[DonM3Z]

Some great advice here! Going to try this out on my M Coupe. I removed the glove box and just as expected one of the mounting tabs is broken.