Modern Vespa

I just wanted to fill the forum in on a recent repair made to my scoot. Recognizing and fixing the problem early may be your best bet.

THE PROBLEM: Within the last two weeks, I've started to notice that my glovebox lid is giving me problems when trying to close it. Basically, it feels like it's not quite aligned and won't close. After a minute of fiddling, it closes... until yesterday when I went to give Beulah a bath. After opening it to remove items for washing, the lid would not close or open. Stuck half way. I CAREFULLY worked it open, but stripped the paint on one of the two glovebox lid pivot arms.

THE REPAIR: No fear; as I have my trusty GT200 Service Manual in PDF form (Thanks, MV!)! I went upstairs and printed off a few pages for reference, then returned to the garage for the repair.

After removing the horn cover, knee panels, coolant lid, and glove box body panel assembly, I could inspect the glovebox lid mechanism from the inside. There's basically a pivot point where each of the two glovebox lid arms attach to the inside of the glovebox body panel. (It looks a lot like the pivot point that allows the little legs to swivel out from the bottom of your keyboard.) Each pivot point is held in place by a metal retainer clip. Somehow - DURING THE COURSE OF NORMAL USAGE - the clips had worked loose and allowed the glovebox pivot arm to become dislodged.

I reset the pivots, tightened the retainer clips, and replaced all the body panels. Good as new.... EXCEPT for the pivot arm which is stripped of paint.

Good to know, thanks

Did w take any pictures cause mine does the same thing

I didn't take any pictures, but there's a pictorial how-to in the Projects section on how to remove the glovebox assembly.

As far as fixing the glove box flap and pivot arms, it should be pretty straightforward one you get the assembly off and can see the parts.