The glove box of our 250 SL is the victim of someone else's upholstery person and I don't think he did things quite right. In particular, when we remove the glove box, there is a switch on the right side of the dash that would ordinarily be pushed by the glove box door when it is closed. But the glove box was upholstered everywhere, including along the right edge where it joins the rest of the dash, so the switch is covered and always in the depressed position.
We tried cutting a small hole in the vinyl where the existing larger hole is about the size of the bezel for the switch, and since the bezel is chrome, our assumption has been that the bezel goes on the outside of the glove box upholstery such that you would see it when you open the glove box. The problem is it seems impossible to push the switch far enough forward for the threads that connect to the bezel to make contact with the bezel. It might be easier to push on the switch if the car didn't have AC, but it does.
Can someone post a picture of what the switch should look like with the glove box door opened? I still think I have the right idea and assume that I can't get it in place because some metal was bent or something creating a space between the glovebox and the surface that it mounts against.
comments?
thanks
Scott
