Passenger airbag are lifted on dash

it's probably just deformation of the dash material from heat. the previous owner must have parked directly in the sun a lot.

 

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I actually think this is caused by the spring from the upper glove box

 

interesting idea, never had mine apart to check and it is in the same location on both cars...

 

Does your upper glove box flap open and stay up without issue?

 

one yes, one no..i will press down on the budge and see if it stays open on its own

 

This is correct. It is possible to fix that by re-securing the end of the spring. My 2004 had the same issue with the bulge in the dash panel. After I fixed the spring, the bulge gradually disappeared as the plastic slowly resumed its original shape.

 

Looks exactly like mine when it had broken upper glovebox spring mount. Dash itself did get back to correct shape after parking it into direct sunlight for half a day. Here that required rare hot and sunny day (wouldn’t have worked this summer). But there probably any day is fine…

I did the fix almost as on that video.

 

Nice video! I'm tempted to fix this on my 2005 but I really never open the glove box. I guess I'll make it a project if I'm bored one day.

 

great find, I think im going to use plastic wall anchors in the hole for more support, I think the spring tension will break the plastic again over time

 

My 2005 has the same issue, always wondered what was causing that. Will fix this as it has always bothered me!
Thank-you for posting this!

Cheers