I started to get tired of seeing the light in my glovebox at night so I decided to add switch that would turn the light off when the glovebox is closed. At first my plan was to drill a hole along the side of the glovebox and add the switch there so that it would get pressed when i closed the box. After I popped the box down, I found an even better alternative.

With the glove box down (press in on either sides to pop it out) you will see that there is a wire tie in a hole on the left side. The switch fit perfectly in the hole. The hole is a bit recessed so I had to put a piece of foam on the back of the glove box so it would reach the switch when I close it.

Here is a link to the switch I bought. They have 2 kinds. This one is "normally closed"
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062540&cp=&pg=4&sr=1&origkw=switch&kw=switch&parentPage=search

Here is the switch installed
http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/340/swtichaa9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Here is what I am using to press the switch. I didn't plan to di it this way so this is not permanent.
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6966/presstheswitchrn6.jpg

The switch was pretty much straight forward to install. I put it inline the ground wire of the of the bulb.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9216/wiringfs6.jpg

And that is my first write up yay!! :banana:

I don't really see the light in my car. If I did I'm sure it would bug me. Slick little mod.

You could just replace the weatherstripping foam along the top with a better one, from Home Depot - Works like a charm for me :)

nice mod, i would do it, but my glove box doesnt have light leaks


those are the same switches i have sitting right here on my desk :thmsup:

I'm really suprised Honda stoped using the switches in the glovebox on the Accord (and other models?) mine has the switch. Stupid cost cutting measures :thumbsdow

Stupid cost cutting measures :thumbsdow

By them cutting out the light and switch I guarantee they saved more than you will ever make a year. Pretty smart imo.

By them cutting out the light and switch I guarantee they saved more than you will ever make a year. Pretty smart imo.


lol true


however, sometimes it comes back to bite them in the ass...back in the early 90's there was a suit against mcdonalds because some old guy spilled his coffee on himself an was burned....he sued saying that the coffee was to hot...and guess what...he won..and was right

mcdonalds had found out that if they raised the degree of the coffee by a certain amount, they would be able to make more coffee with the same amount of materials...or something along those lines....shortly after the suit, they lowered teh temperature again, and posted "Hot" warning lables on the cups, counters, and drive-tru windows

however, sometimes it comes back to bite them in the ass...back in the early 90's there was a suit against mcdonalds because some old guy spilled his coffee on himself an was burned....he sued saying that the coffee was to hot...and guess what...he won..and was right
How is he right...coffee is HOT we all knew that. You'd have a lot more problems if you served me COLD coffee (unless I asked for iced coffee)

How is he right...coffee is HOT we all knew that. You'd have a lot more problems if you served me COLD coffee (unless I asked for iced coffee)

He was right becasue no one is responsible for their own actions anymore. It is pretty sad that someone can file such a law suit and not get laughed out of court.

He was right becasue no one is responsible for their own actions anymore. It is pretty sad that someone can file such a law suit and not get laughed out of court.
Very sad indeed...and you know we're the one that end up paying for it too

coffee was unnaturally hot

What? Whats the natural temperature of coffee? Do we regularly break out our thermometers to measure the temps of our coffee to make sure its not beyond the point of natural hotness? Coffee is normally HOT, whats so hard to understand about that.

Sorry, I just dont know if your being flippant or serious with that comment. Do you actually agree that the hot coffee guy should have won that suit over McD's?

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no i dont, im just saying that the decision they reached was that the coffee was "unnaturally hot" ...as in it was above the temperature coffee should be served at....and the guy got a multi-million dollor settlement...

its like the textbook case of a robber jumps someones fence to go rob thier house, but breaks thier leg doing so..so they sue and win....that the amrican justice system for ya

The switch was pretty much straight forward to install. I put it inline the ground wire of the of the bulb.

You should have put it in line with the hot wire...

:stupid:

Great diy. I have one question... When you say press on either side to pop it out, do you mean to pop the glovebox out? I've tried to get in there to see what's going on with that light, but haven't taken the glovebox out as I don't want to break any of the horribly fragile fasteners that honda uses. Can you give more precise directions on taking the glovebox out please? Thanks.

This might help:

http://www.micronair.us/assets/pdfs/85.pdf

Courtesy of SilverPilot03 in a previous post.

perfect, thanks R.

I actually already put better weatherstripping foam to replace that which was already on the glovebox, but the fact that I know that the light is on all of the time really bothers me for some reason, even if I can't see it when the glovebox is closed even when I'm as close as I can get.

How is he right...coffee is HOT we all knew that. You'd have a lot more problems if you served me COLD coffee (unless I asked for iced coffee)

I guess in US you can sue whoever you want for anything :dunno:


:D :D

This is cool! I was thinking on doing this myself! :) Now with the solution written out - might as well just follow the directions :)

I hate that light - I always see it since my glove compartment is for all but gloves. My girlfriend even keeps peanut-butter and jelly in it! O man! :)

I had this same problem in my 7th Gen . I adjusted the bracket that the glove box latches to . I will post a DIY from my 8th gen if its the same procedure . I will also make it a totally new thread so it will be easier to find .

Well , the 8th gen is different . The latch doesn't appear to be able to be adjusted up and down . It is however adjustable left and right , which will not help you close a gap if you have light shining through when your glovebox is closed . I'm sure you could cut or remove the plastic centering tab (circled in red ) and then be able to adjust up or down .
http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr135/Weezypics311/8th%20gen%20glovebox/IMG_7817a.jpg
Hope this helps . And who the hell is that staring at me ? :wave:

This might save my marriage. I cannot see the light from the driver's seat, but it drives my wife crazy, its easily visible from the passenter seat.

I thought, my switch must be messed up, until I opened the box and realized, there is no switch.

I would like to de-sag the door (though it's NOT bad) but cannot find a good way to do it, everything is plastic on plastic. I think I will do the switch.


On a related note, I am am not sure if it's still this way, but it's common in cars for lights to be switched using the ground wire, so he was just using standard practices. They do this for one reason because ground is everywhere, so if you need 1 light (say the dome light) to come on when ANY door is opened. This way, you only run 1 hot wire, and just give many alternate paths to ground. It seems backwards until you think about it. In this case, the light and switch are a 1-1 relationship so it doesn't really matter which you do.