How to repair your cupholder & make $ doing it
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How to repair your cupholder & make $ doing it
I just bought my F150 about a month ago. Upon purchase, the dash cupholder was stuck in a depressed state in the dash. The owner told me he lost the spring from the back of the cupholder. So, I went to a local Pull-A-Part wrecking yard and removed this dual ash tray/cupholder combo unit from an Expy. I paid $1.60 with tax for it. (That's their standard price for an ashtray).
After getting it home, I took my dremmel tool to the back of it and cut the rivets out that were holding it in place on the ash tray combo unit.
Then I took my original ashtray and drilled two tiny holes and picked up a couple of 1/4" screws from my local hardware store.
Then I screwed the spring to the back of my original cupholder:
Then I put the ashtray combo unit that I purchased for $1.60 (which now has no spring) on ebay. It sold for ~$40..
Pretty crazy to me that someone will pay this much for a dirty springless cupholder set. I think I listed it fairly though, I show pictures of it being dirty and specify in the listing that the spring was removed.
After getting it home, I took my dremmel tool to the back of it and cut the rivets out that were holding it in place on the ash tray combo unit.
Then I took my original ashtray and drilled two tiny holes and picked up a couple of 1/4" screws from my local hardware store.
Then I screwed the spring to the back of my original cupholder:
Then I put the ashtray combo unit that I purchased for $1.60 (which now has no spring) on ebay. It sold for ~$40..
Pretty crazy to me that someone will pay this much for a dirty springless cupholder set. I think I listed it fairly though, I show pictures of it being dirty and specify in the listing that the spring was removed.
Last edited by DonkeyShark; 10-08-2010 at 08:28 PM.
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there are two plastic parts to press down while sliding it out, one on each side on the top of the cupholders, just stick two flathead screwdrivers in there and press down and pull the cupholders out
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How I removed my cup holder...
First, pull out as far as the cupholder can go.
Now, from underneath, squeeze two plastic clips inward/toward each other.
(One clip on each rail.)
Pull the cup holder completely out while holding the plastic clips.
Drill/screw the spring back in place, reinstall the cupholder.
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Thanks, DonkeyShark, for your post. I was definitely yelling quite loudly with this thing (Never seems to help, though). Got it all fixed thanks to you and others on this post.
I hope you don't mind, but I grabbed one of your pix and pointed out the tabs that have to be depressed. Hopefully you can see it below.
Cheers->
HobsonDude
I hope you don't mind, but I grabbed one of your pix and pointed out the tabs that have to be depressed. Hopefully you can see it below.
Cheers->
HobsonDude