I noticed the glove box sags just a little on the left side—just like the glove boxes on my Miatas did. (Push up a little under the left side and the sag is easy to see.)

There was a fix for the sagging Miata glovebox on miata.net:
http://www.miatanet.com/garage/glovebox.htm

Anyone handy know if this would work on ours? (Or maybe I have the only 8 with a crooked glovebox.)

 

Yeah it sags a little on the left.

 

Its not just you. Mine was bugging me since I got the car. It was just like that miata glovebox. So I bended the lock a little inward, problem gone:

 

I just checked mine and it sags a bit too

 

My glove dont sag at all

 

Mine sags as well. I'll have to try the bend the clip method.

 

I never noticed it before, but now it's going to bother me.

 

Mine sags as well. Visually it's pretty annoying.

 

i never really mentioned it on here. i'm extremely **** & this has been bothering me since i got the car!

 

The bottle opener to the left of the glove box is a nice touch.

 

Booz hounds lol

 

I hate the sagging box - looks like I'll try the fix.

 

Damn must be Mazda's trademark or sumin. My second gen rx7 had the same problem.

 

tried bending that metal clip, its extremely hard to bend!

any ideas?

ps OLLLD thread i know haha...

 

I figured out that my issue with a "sagging glove box" isn't actually the glove box itself. It is the dash. Take out the glove box by unhooking the dampener, pinching the side walls of the box, and pull it out. Look for a Philips head screw on the left side of the opening that secures the bottom section of the dash. It is one of two visible screws that holds the bottom section of the dash which the glove box attaches to. One on the left and one on the right. My problem was the left screw. It may be loose as it was on my 8, allowing the plastic dash piece to sag. Push the dash upwards and tighten the screw. Reattach the glove box, and viola.

This made me wonder how many other screws/nuts/bolts are loose on the car. Thank you NYC and your lovely shitty roads <3 . Makes me wish Mazda put lock-tight on every possible applicable location. But then again, that would probably raise the MSRP by $1500

 

Mine has sagged since I got my car about a year ago. And also the center console button sticks up some on the left side as well. Also, my horn button rattles. It's the little things that bother me.

 

u can fix all of that with a screw driver, basically do what sntp did, take it out, push it, tighten it. done.

loctite on all of them? lol

not only will it raise the msrp by 1500. it will also cost u 1000 bux every time u want to remove the dash, cuz u simply can't take it out and gotta heat every single nut with a torch, which destroys the dash lol

 

Should have been a recall...lol