Those that have modified their cup holders?

[TANK'S 250]

I just wanted to see what you guys were talking about,....know I know,....and knowing is half the battle....

[AFBLUE]

Originally Posted by MATREDGT

I checked at the dealers around my area and they all want $90+ for an 01+ cup holder. I only spent $30 on each of these two so I'm still ahead, I guess. I would post pics but I screwed the thing up worse than it was already. I tried to just sand it all smooth and paint that, but then I had sanding scratches that you could see. It has really been a pain in the ***, even though it should have been easy.

You sparked my interest here, becuase I just threw my coffee across my lap yesterday taking an offramp too fast, was pissed beyond belief!!!!! I have an 00 and its the POS cup thrower, guess what? TAN!!!!! Like they had a surplus of Tan ones so they just kept shoving that piece of garbage in till they ran out!!!

So the cup holder is black plastic, and the front handle is grey or tan textured vinyal plastic 2 different materials, that have to be glued together or something?

Get out the dremel, hack them apart and gorillla glue good cup holder to your original face. Then PM me for my address so you can send me the other cup holder you have so I can fix mine!!!!

[Blasterak]

Hmm...Ill have to do this, I hate my cup thrower, my carpet is screwed because of the damn thing, it threw a milkshake all over my floor and it smells pretty dam bad if I take my floor mat off and that happened RIGHT after I took out the carpet and got it cleaned...talk about pissed...I dont see many cupholders for sale though, ebay has a few but they go for a pretty price usually and all my local junk yards dont have many SD's to pick parts off of..anyone got an extra cup HOLDER they want to sale?

[dubl_t]

reading these posts about getting pissed off because of spillage makes me laugh and this is why... decades ago while eating lunch with my girlfriend in the truck, I spilled ketchup on my shirt. At the time I cared about my appearance and this really got to me. She just started busting up like it's the funniest thing she saw!!! THAT sent me THROUGH THE ROOF!! In my last ditch effort to save face by frantically throwing the burger out the 1/2 open window, I MISSED THE OPENING!!!! yep, looked like a ketchup bomb went off all over me and my truck. Well last laugh's on her, I married her

seriously though, I got a tan cup holder in a gray truck if you wanna trade. I ordered it from the dealer and got the wrong color, just didn't think it was important enough to exchange it.

[DCSpecial]

Yep, I hate the thrower on my 2000 F-450. Bought a holder from the dealer.

[99sd]

i need to find a 01+ gray one. mine sucks

[devo]

The last time I was there, this place had several.
Tri City Auto Parts

[texas train]

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Last edited by texas train : 01-03-2009 at 07:15 PM.

[a1l71700]

Aahhhahahaaaa... I am so glad I'm not the only one that spills my drinks on a regular basis because of this awesomely designed cup thrower!

Mine is actually custom from the factory too... yeah, if you pull on it a little too much it simply detaches I guess the engineers designed that into it so that you can throw the f@#$%ing thing out the window after it soaks your crotch with boiling hot coffee! At least they were progressive thinkers.

[99psd]

I got the lovely cup thrower....