This morning Heather called me at work to tell me that she had made tortilla soup and ask would I be interested in having her over to share the meal. Uh, yeah! 😉
Heather met me at my house and immediately got to preparing the meal. It’s times like this that I wish I could cook.
Heather heats up the tortilla soup she made last night and prepares slices of avacado, sour cream and cilantro to add on top. Mmmm... =)
It tasted even better than it looked (I know, is that even possible?). =)
Heather also invited Jeffery over so the four of us got to enjoy a wonderful home cooked meal while watching episodes of Police Squad (hilarious) and Stacked (always good for a laugh).
Heather, Jeffery and Me
After dinner Jeffery offered to install the lock chassis that just arrived for the Jetta. After breaking yet another piece we at least got the automatic trunk unlock function working. Hurray! Thanks Jeffery.
At this point it was about 7:30 and Heather and Jeffery had headed home. Since I wanted to fix the trunk lock and glove box door at the same time I decided to break out my Jetta manual and get started. It was way more complicated than I had originally thought but that didn’t deter me. First up, removing the front console.
In order to remove the console I had to take out 5 screws, remove the lighter and change drawer, take off the automatic shift knob and then carefully rock the plastic housing until the tabs released. Ok I admit, I did snap a few plastic pieces. The car is almost 10 years old so the plastic is brittle.
I can't believe I actually decided to strip the car down to this level. I hope it all goes back together ok.
The whole reason for removing the console was to get at this one screw that held the glovebox in place. Thank goodness I had the manual otherwise I probably would have just snapped this piece off not knowing it was actually screwed in.
So all that work was just to be able to get access to a screw....one screw.... That's a lot of work for one screw (tewwible!). 😉
Seven more screws to release the glove box and then I was finally able to tackle replacing the front door.
I spent over an hour trying to get the old door off and then new one secured in place. Turns out that the holes on the hinges of the door were too small and off center so the pins wouldn’t go in. After giving up on the brute force approach I grabbed my Makita and drilled out the holes so they’d accommodate the pins. Success!!
Ignore the RAID in the background. Yeah, we have ants again. Boo... =P
After about 3 hours of scratching up my knuckles and letting out more curse words than I care to admit I was finally able to get the Jetta back together and looking pretty good might I add. It was a lot of work but totally worth it. =)
Looks good right? =)
Although I was a bit bummed about not installing the trunk lock bracket myself I completely forgot about that after tackling the glovebox. It was a huge challenge and I did it!! Now I just need to fix the leaky radiator problem (I’ll probably have to take the car in to the shop for that but at least all the other parts are fixed now). Until the next Jetta crisis this is Jettagirl saying Peace Out and VW for life. Goodnight! =)
Yeah you know you're rolling hard when you're driving a Jetta. VW 4 Life baby. What what?! =)
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