charliem
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What you will need:
1 x Cup Holder (requires both front mount clips, and the rear mount lugs in tact)
1 x Phillips head screw driver
~10 minutes of your time
This is about as simple as it gets, even still this page is going to be image heavy (ive down-sampled them to all around the 50kb mark for the unfortunates still living in the dark ages of the internet)
Keep in mind that all the screws in this DIY are unique to the location they came out of, try to remember where to put them back in (theres only 8 screws, so its not that hard)
The centre console is in two pieces. A front piece, and the rear piece. We have to take the rear bit apart first.
In the rear bucket...
...there are two phillips head screws. Unscrew them, put them in a safe place.
Now that they are out, you can lift the rear console section out. Lift it UP by the front of the segment, not sideways. This is clipped into the front segment, if you move it any way but up, you are likely to damage these clips. Dont be afraid to yank it with a bit of force, the only thing holding this sucker down is those two screws, and some retention clips at the red line shown below.
Under the rear mount, at the floor, youll see two more phillips head screws as seen in the pic below. Undo them, put them somewhere safe.
Up under the foot well, either side of the console (below two pics highlight the position), youll see two more screws. Remove them, put them somewhere safe.
For drivers side:
For passengers side:
Now unscrew the shifter. Lefty loosey, righty tighty.
Take the nut off the shifter also (a spring washer may or may not fall out of the shifter knob, DONT LOSE THAT!!)
Now its ready to come out, this is probably the hardest part (more a pain in the ass than hard). You may need to pop the front panel (thats holding the radio and ashtray...remove the ashtray before you do this) out just a bit to get the clips either side out from under the front face. Some of you may have screws holding the console in under here, some may get lucky and have no screws at all, either case, popping the front piece off (even just a little bit) will be of benefit in this bit. Pay careful attention to the shifter boot. Lift that up over the shift shaft, dont damage that boot. When its out, put it somewhere safe.
Take this time to vaccum up any crap thats under the console pieces, and clean them up a bit if they have 10+ years of spilled drink residue caked all over them, due to not have a proper drink holder in the first place.
Up under the ash tray youll see a blank dust cover, thats screwed in either side with two phillips heads. Remove the screws (keep them close by, youll be using them real soon)to reveal the cup holder seat, and ditch the plate (feel free to bin it if you have no other macgyvered use for it).
Inside this area, at the back youll notice two semi-circle female lug mounts (signed below in the pic). Keep this in mind, cause where the screws go for the cup holder, you will find an alignment pin on either side.
You have to maneavure the cup holder into place such that the rear lugs sit in those female mounts at the back, AND the alignment pins sit into the front mount clips at the same time. A little bit fiddly.
When youve got it in place, put your screws back in, and reverse the process above to reassemble the console. In the pic below youll see the alignment pins under the screw. They go in the small holes at the bottom of the mount clips.
Putting the shifter knob back on might (read: WILL) require a few trys before you get the nut in the correct position....which is important.
Too low, and youll run out of thread in the shifter before you reach the nut (which uses the spring washer mentioned earlier, to hold tension on the shifter knob and prevent it from twisting when you drive).
Too high, and your shifter knob will sit up really high, and noone likes high shifters.
You may also get the nut in a spot where the shifter will sit looking sideways when you screw it down tight....just remove the knob, and give the nut a quarter turn, and then replace the shifter knob again.
Every time ive done this it takes about 3 or 4 goes before its where I want it.
...skipping the reassembly pictures....
And voilla, cup holder installed.
1 x Cup Holder (requires both front mount clips, and the rear mount lugs in tact)
1 x Phillips head screw driver
~10 minutes of your time
This is about as simple as it gets, even still this page is going to be image heavy (ive down-sampled them to all around the 50kb mark for the unfortunates still living in the dark ages of the internet)
Keep in mind that all the screws in this DIY are unique to the location they came out of, try to remember where to put them back in (theres only 8 screws, so its not that hard)
The centre console is in two pieces. A front piece, and the rear piece. We have to take the rear bit apart first.
In the rear bucket...
...there are two phillips head screws. Unscrew them, put them in a safe place.
Now that they are out, you can lift the rear console section out. Lift it UP by the front of the segment, not sideways. This is clipped into the front segment, if you move it any way but up, you are likely to damage these clips. Dont be afraid to yank it with a bit of force, the only thing holding this sucker down is those two screws, and some retention clips at the red line shown below.
Under the rear mount, at the floor, youll see two more phillips head screws as seen in the pic below. Undo them, put them somewhere safe.
Up under the foot well, either side of the console (below two pics highlight the position), youll see two more screws. Remove them, put them somewhere safe.
For drivers side:
For passengers side:
Now unscrew the shifter. Lefty loosey, righty tighty.
Take the nut off the shifter also (a spring washer may or may not fall out of the shifter knob, DONT LOSE THAT!!)
Now its ready to come out, this is probably the hardest part (more a pain in the ass than hard). You may need to pop the front panel (thats holding the radio and ashtray...remove the ashtray before you do this) out just a bit to get the clips either side out from under the front face. Some of you may have screws holding the console in under here, some may get lucky and have no screws at all, either case, popping the front piece off (even just a little bit) will be of benefit in this bit. Pay careful attention to the shifter boot. Lift that up over the shift shaft, dont damage that boot. When its out, put it somewhere safe.
Take this time to vaccum up any crap thats under the console pieces, and clean them up a bit if they have 10+ years of spilled drink residue caked all over them, due to not have a proper drink holder in the first place.
Up under the ash tray youll see a blank dust cover, thats screwed in either side with two phillips heads. Remove the screws (keep them close by, youll be using them real soon)to reveal the cup holder seat, and ditch the plate (feel free to bin it if you have no other macgyvered use for it).
Inside this area, at the back youll notice two semi-circle female lug mounts (signed below in the pic). Keep this in mind, cause where the screws go for the cup holder, you will find an alignment pin on either side.
You have to maneavure the cup holder into place such that the rear lugs sit in those female mounts at the back, AND the alignment pins sit into the front mount clips at the same time. A little bit fiddly.
When youve got it in place, put your screws back in, and reverse the process above to reassemble the console. In the pic below youll see the alignment pins under the screw. They go in the small holes at the bottom of the mount clips.
Putting the shifter knob back on might (read: WILL) require a few trys before you get the nut in the correct position....which is important.
Too low, and youll run out of thread in the shifter before you reach the nut (which uses the spring washer mentioned earlier, to hold tension on the shifter knob and prevent it from twisting when you drive).
Too high, and your shifter knob will sit up really high, and noone likes high shifters.
You may also get the nut in a spot where the shifter will sit looking sideways when you screw it down tight....just remove the knob, and give the nut a quarter turn, and then replace the shifter knob again.
Every time ive done this it takes about 3 or 4 goes before its where I want it.
...skipping the reassembly pictures....
And voilla, cup holder installed.
