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The outter material is crap. You can't make crappy material better. Your best bet is to strip the front and put on a new layer. Vinyl, pleather, or real leather and some upholstery adhesive are your best bets. I would be blown away if someone could fix the stock material.
Options are:
1. Ironing or using some injected glue, opinions and pictures from those that allready solved likd this
2. Replace the original vinyl with another material, vinyl or real leather, an upholsterer told me that the final result may not be what i aspected
3. Order the piece from US, but its a bit complicated because US dealers or vendors don't deliver in Europe.
I'm a Honda fun, that Legend its my second Honda after an Accord(TLX) that i still own, but this situation is annoying.
Hi guys, i'm from Europe, and I own a 2008 Legend with the same problem, bubbles on the glove box cover. As you may know in Europe prices are double than US, so this piece costs over 1000$ here . I'm interested if ironing the cover does solve this problem, or other option like injecting glue. Thank you.
Please inform us about you solution.
I'm in Turkey...
same here.. it sux.. it also dents very easily.. I never noticed it on any other car I, friends, or family had owned; and the RL was the best of the bunch..
same here.. it sux.. it also dents very easily.. I never noticed it on any other car I, friends, or family had owned; and the RL was the best of the bunch..
Got it done at my local upholsterer with much better vinyl. Cost was pretty good $220
when we got our 05 RL the glove box was bubbled up just like everyone is describing, only it appeared that the previous owners passenger also liked to use it as a foot rest and made big indents. the material was so soft you could mold it like playdough. i took a putty knife and spent about 2 hours scrapping off the old material and in the process took a few chunks of the foam with it. i used some bodyfiller and gave the whole cover a light coat to fill in the holes i made then i used some Duplicolor Truck Bed Coating to go over the whole thing. i have used the truck bed coating on several things and it has a texture thats a close enough match and looked much better then it did before. i build a lot of speaker boxes for friends and i use this stuff to coat them and thats what gave me the idea to use it for the glove box. you can get it in spray cans, quarts, or in a gallon, you will need a special gun to spray the quart or gallon.
here is what the dash looks like now, not an exact match but it sure beats what it looked like before.
My 2005 RL with Parchment interior has it bad as well . I have removed the door and taken it to a fabric store but couldnt find a match! Does anyone know where to possibly get the material online?
when i scraped all bubbled up crap off mine with a putty knife it was a gooey mess, it was very soft and very sticky. and it was soft and sticky all the way down to the foam and was a real challenge to scrap off. i wish i would have taken some pics of the progress, it was a pain but i am glad i took the time to do it. using the truck bed coating over mine worked great because it becomes hard and can stand up to abuse.
the other thing i think might work well would be Plasti Dip because it turns into a rubber type material when it dries. and you can tint to just about any color so you may be able to come pretty close to matching your tan interior.
Last edited by cyberquest; 12-01-2016 at 03:38 AM.
Just upholstered my glove box with vinyl. Got the material from a local fabric shop that was a perfect match to the lighter black and pattern. After removing the rubber mold that acura used to cover the glove box, I repaired the foam on the glove box with expanding foam and reshaped it. The hardest part of the repair is heating and stretching the vinyl around the handle.
I've read about this problem in recent threads, and have seen that various other people have had this problem. The glove box feels like it has melted. Any suggestions or sites to replace the cover. Acura quoted me $300 with labor, and Ebay $250 which are both high for just a glove box cover. Any suggestions?
Had the exact same issue on my 2009 RL. Was in the dealership getting my oil changed one day and the factory rep was standing at the counter talking with the service manager. I put him on the spot and asked him if this was the quality work that Acura stood behind. He warranty claimed mine that day. Had it installed by the dealership a few weeks later when the part came in. Right place at the right time.
Disclaimer -- do not try on your own unless you're confident with your skills, and are sure you have the correct replacement part.
I finally took the plunge and ordered and installed a replacement glovebox for my 2006 RL. I couldn't stand what was really just putty for the door. Every touch left a mark, it was sticky, and I could imagine the material starting to get on clothes and staining them. It was actually fairly easy to remove the old glovebox and put the new one in (if you search online you can find instructions for removing and replacing the glovebox in the Acura Music Link installation guide).
The challenge for me was to replace the lock cylinder. There's a youtube video that shows putting a hook behind the lock and removing a clip, and it can be done that way if you're willing to really break into plastic that surrounds the outer latch. I ended up ripping apart the old glovebox, unscrewing the oozy front panel, prying it away and unscrewing the inner screws to remove the latch assembly. It made it easier to get to the clip that holds the lock in place. I carefully put the lock in, correct side up and reinstalled the unit. Looks like new (hence no pictures).
I plan on keeping the car for the foreseeable future, so it was worth it. Expensive, but much cheaper than the dealer quote for the part and their labor.
Noticed 05+ RL's are getting into the junkyard now. Each of them has had a blister glovebox. Very odd. Didn't know about this issue so I searched and came here.
I have the same problem: the vinyl on the glove box door has bubbles. I am sure it is heat related. THe car has been outside in Dallas and Albuquerque for the last 5 years, Would like to get a replacement.
Where did you get the work done, how did they do it?
I live in Turkey and an airbag/dashboard repair shop has done it. They completely removed existing vinyl, filled the damaged area with a gummy silicone and covered new vinyl. I was in doubt about handle area but it's surprisingly great. It took 2 days and I paid 70 US Dollars for it. From now, I will never keep close the glove box door during parking in summer. The f**ing wood-look console causes this. The temperature is very high under sun shine and that part is impossible to touch. IMO that's why the silicone inside the glove box is melted.
For anyone who has the time, you can recover the glove box with vinyl for about $25.
Just finished recovering the glove box on a 2005 Acura RL with vinyl. Removed glove box, then disassembled, including removal of handle/lock. Then scraped off the soft material down to the foam backing using putty knife, kitchen spoon, and whatever else was helpful. Took a lot of patience: I did it over the course of several days, at night. Got some of the gunk on my shorts, and it won't come out. It's a sticky mess. And, you can't get it all off: some is embedded in the foam.
The vinyl was very inexpensive online from Vogue Fabrics. For an adhesive I used DAP Weldwood Contact Cement (The Original). Watched a video of a guy recovering a dash on Youtube that was helpful. He stressed doing small areas at a time.
The part that didn't turn out as I wanted was the recessed area for the handle. I couldn't stretch the fabric enough to go down into the recessed area. I cut out the hole in the vinyl, leaving enough for a 1/4" overlap around the sides. Then I used some paper to create a pattern for a piece to go in the recessed area. Again, patience: took 30 minutes or so to get it right. Then cut the vinyl. It comes up to about 1/8" from the top all around. Glued it in place 1/3rd at a time. Thought about finding some kind of braid to go over it, but decided it's not that noticable, especially now that it's in the car. Also had to cut some excess material off where it bunched up at the sides, but still it's much better looking now than before.
One other thing to do is to smooth the surface before putting on the vinyl (I used heat gun and putty knife) because the imperfections will show through the vinyl.
i JUST scraped all the shit off mine last night - i have a video of it, its nasty shit. There is some (alot) residue after, and if you use acetone and give it a good scrub it seems to take off the stickyness and gets down to the foam. Also, i used a heatgun on the lowest setting and it seemed to come off a bit easier. Someone on the Facebook KB1 group mentioned he epoxied the foam, which i happen to have some West Systems around for that at the moment.
Getterdun - how does the color match the rest of the interior? Were you able to find an exact match?
thats what i thought too, just didnt know how somthing like that could of happened. I guess i have to go interigate my wife and son....thank guys...oh appolagies Heavy, I wasnt trying to sound like a jerk. I always appreciate all your feedbacks.
bubbles in glove box...mine completely melted!!! They wont replace. You can draw in it with finger!!!
It's literally melting. Open blisters and bubbles. What really disturbs me is that I replaced my glove box in 2009 for exactly this same reason. It seems like a manufacturers defect to me
I cant seem to figure out how to post my picture(s)
It's literally melting. Open blisters and bubbles. What really disturbs me is that I replaced my glove box in 2009 for exactly this same reason. It seems like a manufacturers defect to me
I cant seem to figure out how to post my picture(s)
11-18-2015, 09:33 PM
. I'm interested if ironing the cover does solve this problem, or other option like injecting glue. Thank you.
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