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VW Tiguan. Lost item gap in Dash at Windshield

Dennis H

Dennis H

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Any advice on retrieval? Elderly Mom borrowed POS VW visiting in Pittsburgh vicinity. Can’t get the crippled parking card out. Went to VW Dealer. They can’t help. Only the Germans would pull **** like this. Drove it ten miles and the oil light went on. Low, made an add.
 
Can you even see it? Or even an edge of it to be able to grab it?

Sounds like you might have to rip the damn dash apart.
 
Dennis H said:
Any advice on retrieval? Elderly Mom borrowed POS VW visiting in Pittsburgh vicinity. Can’t get the crippled parking card out. Went to VW Dealer. They can’t help. Only the Germans would pull **** like this. Drove it ten miles and the oil light went on. Low, made an add.
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Something like this?
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Completely lost sight of card. Internet says the Golf and other models have similar circumstance. Gonna try 2 sided tape. Other owners say eventually enough stuff is lost that it piles high enough to be seen.
 
Guess it’s not just Chrysler Dealers who are useless.
 
Dennis H said:
Completely lost sight of card. Internet says the Golf and other models have similar circumstance. Gonna try 2 sided tape. Other owners say eventually enough stuff is lost that it piles high enough to be seen.
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:BangHead: :BangHead: :BangHead: :BangHead:
 
Dennis H said:
Completely lost sight of card. Internet says the Golf and other models have similar circumstance. Gonna try 2 sided tape. Other owners say eventually enough stuff is lost that it piles high enough to be seen.
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Well fiddlesticks
 
My Son used to own one. He "lost" several items there. Compressed air worked once for his employer ID card. The other thing he lost was his campus parking permit. When they tried to have it towed, the rollback operator was kind enough to use a really thin slim Jim and he got it out.
I thought they were really good cars, then his showed a lot of metal shavings at the last oil change. He traded it, and we learned less than 5k later it went boom. It only had 81k when traded.
Good luck Dennis
 
As soon as I read the title of this thread,I had flashbacks of the M&Ms going down the defroster vents in the 67 GTX convertible in the movie Tommy Boy!
 
VW.
People want to love them. It's this concept in their heads, a pre-conceived notion that they will love the VW. Not of it's own merits, nor some profound proof found during ownership. But, they love it.

Aaaaaaaaand they trade it in.
 
Dealer probed around, then tried compressed air. They gave up. Hillcrest VW in New Kensington, Pa.
 
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Fitted with a demolition blade. :p

Compressed air might work.

Vacuum cleaner with a drinking straw attached - you'll need some duct tape and some patience. Plastic straw will work best.....it may need some minor trimming to make a pointed end if that helps. Flatten the straw also might get it down the gap if it's that tight.
 
Go to Walmart, park next to another card holder.
Most never lock up.
She gets caught just have her smile and say she thought it was her car.
 
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