Claire’s friend Mo is tall. He got into the yellow jeep the other day, and his knee caught the glove box latch, and it snapped off. The latch was already skewed and protruded a bit when we bought the jeep, so no surprise.

Mo put the latch, broken pin, and spring back in the glove box, which I retrieved today to see if I could repair.

The photos below show how I drilled a hole in the pin and latch, creating a metal pin out of a nail. Kind of like a pin in a broken leg. Contact cement held it all together. I repositioned the spring, which was a bit of a puzzle. The latch is actually better than before Mo’s knee encountered it. It no longer protrudes!