Anyway - once the rain, snow and hail had stopped I nipped out to have a check up on some of my gripes.
Dropped the glovebox door down to see the fuses, checked fuses 37 and 14 for continuity, all ok, so swapped them for fresh ones anyway. Checked fuse 14, live only with ignition as it should be. Checked fuse 37, permanently live. So everything is all good at that end. My next job later in the week is going to be to check the terminals at the horn end to see if any power is coming down them when the horn is pressed...
But for the time being - I have found the resolution to my glovebox issue. On the right hand side of the first image you will see a black plastic tube moulded into the glovebox lid within which sits a brass pivot bush, this slides over a peg allowing the pivot.
On the second image you see where the fault is! The right hand side tube has become damaged and the top half of the tube that retains the brass pivot bush. Luckily the bottom half has remained intact, so a quick fix with a cable tie was carried out, wrapping it around the brass pivot bush and the remaining section of the plastic tube that the pivot bush sits unti.
I still ideally need to adjust the latch at the top as you have to give it quite a stern push to get the glovebox to shut properly.
Hopefully somewhere along the line someone will find these helpful
P.S. Sorry about the terrible photo quality, for some reason I picked up my iPad instead of my iPhone.
