Hello yorkshire1979,
Assuming you have a right hand drive audi, open the front passenger door and you should remove the side panel similar to the one on the drivers side that you would remove to gain access to the fuses. With the panel removed open the glove box and you will see one of a couple of things. The worst would be to see that you have somehow broken the shock absorber that holds the glove box and allows the slow motion movement to happen. However if you are lucky then just like me you will find that either you have broken/dislodged the plastic black pin that joins the glovebox to the shock absorber. Just align the holes and replace the pin through them and bingo. At no time did I need to remove the glove box which was a result.
I hope this helps.
Check out the link below.
http://www.audi-forums.com/b6-forum/...per-fault.html