Ipod Wire In Glove Box

[04 Honda Civic]

I want to relocate my ipod wire to my glove box. However I am unsure of how to get it to stay in the glove box and not have it fall inside the dash. How do you guys manage to do this?

[rgarjr]

don't understand how it would fall, zip tie or get creative.

[04 Honda Civic]

I havent really tried it yet, but I was just curious what other people have done to make it stay in there

[dianebrat]

I havent really tried it yet, but I was just curious what other people have done to make it stay in there

I think we're all stumped as to why you think it's going to be a problem

[04 Honda Civic]

lol I just supposed that the hole by the glove box would be too big? Is that where I am supposed to put it? Like on top of the glove box?

[Riverman]

Do you have a light in your glove compartment? If so, you can probably pop the light out and using a Dremel tool, carve out a little spot big enough for the cable next to the light. Then you just push the cable through the hole and snap the light back in place.

[1loudls]

most glove boxes are "droppable" meaning that you can squeeze a release and it will just drop, this is easy, just run the cable over to the spot and have it drop down into the glove box, i have never had a customer come in and say that it fell back behind there (if it does just drop the box again and pull it out)

 

a lot of newer cars have a "sealed" glove box which means that the space itself is completely sealed off from behind it, if this is the case, then you will either need to drill a hole, or find a removable panel that will come out and then run the cable through there, unless there is something pulling on the cable, it should never just fall back through the hole. but if you make the hole just barely bigger that the plug (make it tight enough as to where you have to press the plug through just right)then it should be even more difficult for it to fall back.

 

also as Vblue mentioned, zip ties can also be real useful here, if there is not a place to zip tie it to, then drill two real small holes(just big enough for the zip tie) close together and run the tie through one hole and back through the other to hold the cable.

 

 

when drilling in cars always make sure that you know what is on the other side first before drilling and finding out the hard way as there is usually a air bag and SRS cables very close!

[drodge]

I've been using mine in my 04 Civic for years. I just routed the cable to the glove box and hung it over the side. It's never fallen out once.

[1loudls]

lets just say for a minute that you do have a drop out glove box (since those are the only one that even have the slightest chance of falling behind) and you just happen to be the one in a thousand that the cable falls back behind the glove box.

 

you would have to take five seconds to re-drop the glove box and pull the cable back out, so it wouldn't really be a big deal at all if it did fall back there.

 

 

for the record, in the past 7-8 years that i have been running cables in to glove boxes of ipods or media players (hell back in the old days, Ive even ran a couple of aux cables for portable cassette players)i have yet to have one customer come back because of there cable falling back somewhere.