Cup Holder/Center Console ..

[PakaloloHonda]

I took a picture of this so as to not confuse anyone ...

Apparently the owner before me drank alot of cawfee, or something lol!
But the part where the cups sit .. (outlined in red) is so fugged up ..
I even tried cleaning it .. then I thought .. cut a piece of peel off carbon fiber and ..
No wait .. maybe a piece of textured rubber? What are some of our members ideas?
And show pictures if you've filled that area in with something .. lets see what we come up with.

[Quashish]

I was just thinking about this. I used 3M rubbing compound on mine but I want something to keep my phone in place there and not slide around.

My idea was remember in elementary school when you put elmers glue on the top lid of a rubbermaid pencil box and let it dry? We would use them as a book mark when they dry. I was thinking of just pouring a bit of elmers glue on there or something. Not rubber but almost the same kind of texture

[Straight Success]

Take out the console. Get some masking tape and black paint (for plastic) of your choice, and go to town on the FUBARed area. Clear it for protection. $10 bucks or so 'ill have it looking like new OEM.

[islandhopper]

I just used one of those rubberized pads that people put on their dash to keep their phone from sliding around. Works just fine. As for looks, polish it or paint it.

[reklipz]

Take out the console. Get some masking tape and black paint (for plastic) of your choice, and go to town on the FUBARed area. Clear it for protection. $10 bucks or so 'ill have it looking like new OEM.

This is my recommendation as well. Do it right or do it twice.

[PakaloloHonda]

Nope, not gonna paint it .. that's out of the question.
I'm with Quashish. I don't need to be pickin shit up off the floor that slid all over the joint!
I do plan on taking it apart and "doing it right" with whatever concept I come up with.
But it's not going to be painted. There's a material/plastic/rubber/foam .. something out there.

Just brain storming.

[mtnbikaah]

bah, before I read that you won't paint it I was going to suggest Plasti-Dip.

Oh well, I said it anyways .

[buzz11]

Why not grab a spare at the junkyard? I had an idea and i'm just waiting to go on a jy run to grab one and test out my idea

[PakaloloHonda]

Why not grab a spare at the junkyard? I had an idea and i'm just waiting to go on a jy run to grab one and test out my idea

Pretty hard to mess one of these up, lol .. then again, I don't know what your idea is.
Care to share? I was just thinking of leather myself.

[buzz11]

I'm trying to incorporate a better cupholder so that it doesn't get in the way of the radio. But I dont think its going to workout because underneath that area are the shifter cables, i believe

[Quashish]

plan on taking it apart and "doing it right" with whatever concept I come up with.
But it's not going to be painted. There's a material/plastic/rubber/foam .. something out there.

Just brain storming.

Read this and thought plasti dip

bah, before I read that you won't paint it I was going to suggest Plasti-Dip.

Oh well, I said it anyways .

But I was beat to it

I'm trying to incorporate a better cupholder so that it doesn't get in the way of the radio. But I dont think its going to workout because underneath that area are the shifter cables, i believe

Cup holder would be sweet. I never use mine because nothing fits in there. But I dont want to just dremel it out. Or find a VW cup holder that could somehow go in place of the cb7 cup holder. But thats off topic

[islandhopper]

This is what im talking about...a rubber pad that sticks to flat plastic/metal surfaces.



Here it is held at as vertical an angle as possible...it's not going anywhere.



yeah...i rock an old school click-wheel ipod. 20gigs...can't complain.

[drew12000]

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this is what i did. but i grabbed two, and cut them to shape. these things are crazy sticky! but don't leave a residue.

[buzz11]

i was thinking of geting one of these and putting them on the dash near the middle vents. But i dont think its a good idea because its being exposed to the sun and can get a bit dusty around the dash. I ended up getting a phone clip that clips on the vents

[schierholz]

Lmao.. I dont know about about that mabe for spill clean up...... what i do is i took my Secutrity light built into one of the Blockout things for the foglight swich area . i took a iphone 3G otterbox clip and took a block out thing for the pci card slots on a computer case and bent that so it slid in there with the security light pannel bent a 90 degree in it and cliped the clip onto it holds my phone right over the Blower speed control but i don't mind.

here is what I did


yeah yeah i know im not going with a dubble din unit but Il say it looks good in your car though