VW Golf MK4 Automatic 1997 (P Reg) - Help with my amazing (if strangely humorous) FAIL

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Thu 24 Jun 2010 20:56
VW Golf MK4 Automatic 1997 (P Reg) - Help with my amazing (if strangely humorous) FAIL - thriftyman

Hi all. Lovely forum you have here

Just need some help with probably the most daft mistake I could have made.

I have a VW Golf MK4 Automatic.

I opened the door and put the keys on the dash.

I put my luggage in the back.

I shut the back door.

The vibrations then caused the keys to slide down the dashboard and into a mysterious place in the right hand side of the front window.

Now i tried a pipe-cleaner / stick up the side trim to try and hook them out and unscrewing the plastic below the steering wheel. Ideally I need the top of the dashboard off.


Has anyone any answers?

Cheers all

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Thu 24 Jun 2010 21:42
VW Golf MK4 Automatic 1997 (P Reg) - Help with my amazing (if strangely humorous) FAIL - Avant

Might be worth driving over a bumpy road and seeing if they fall down any further, so that you could get them out by unscrewing the bottom part of the dash plastics.

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Thu 24 Jun 2010 21:46
VW Golf MK4 Automatic 1997 (P Reg) - Help with my amazing (if strangely humorous) FAIL - acornarms

hi

if you can see the keys try a magnet to hook them out or if belonging to any breack down service call them to try and get them out

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Thu 24 Jun 2010 22:00
VW Golf MK4 Automatic 1997 (P Reg) - Help with my amazing (if strangely humorous) FAIL - Gregory II

You might be able to try a magnetic stick with a retractable top - a bit like an antenna on a radio;

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Thu 24 Jun 2010 22:31
VW Golf MK4 Automatic 1997 (P Reg) - Help with my amazing (if strangely humorous) FAIL - oilrag

Welcome to the forum, Thriftyman.

If you can`t get a magnet ended rod down due to the ridgidity - I would epoxy adhesive a strong magnet onto a length of strong string and lower that down.

Please let us know how you resolve it ;-)

Edited by oilrag on 24/06/2010 at 22:32

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