Removeing or replaceing 99 ram cupholder
From : officer
Q: the cheap piece of &^%#%@ dodge calls a cup holder that flips up in the dash of my 99 quad cab truck has broken one of the little plastic parts off and i cannot get the thing out of the dash. my only other option is to spend the $85.00 to replace the dang thing or try to fix it myself. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks!!! .
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From : Annonymous
on sat 19 jun 2004 020244 -0400 officer guyjenkins@hotmail.com wrote the cheap piece of &^%#%@ dodge calls a cup holder that flips up in the dash of my 99 quad cab truck has broken one of the little plastic parts off and i cannot get the thing out of the dash. my only other option is to spend the $85.00 to replace the dang thing or try to fix it myself. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks!!! i have a 2001 ram when i used to take it into the dodge dealer the tech told me that the two weakest points on the truck were the rear end & transmission. the transmission went out at 42k they forgot about the cupholder. mine also broke off where the plastic hinge meets the tray. min poodle jumped on it i pulled the piece off and took it to the dealer and asked for a replacement. that is when i was told it would be $87.00 for the whole unit. the fix is posted at http//p081.ezboard.com/bfritzsrampagetechboard look under the interior group. pics are posted. bk .
From : roy
on sat 19 jun 2004 120420 -0400 nosey kfrei43@removethis.hotmail.com wrote can you e-mail a picture of that to me right now i have my cb mounted to an l shaped piece of 3/4 plywood. the horizontal bottom section lays flat on the floor and slides under the center seat section and the radio is mounted to the front side of the vertical section. it works well but there is no room on it for anything else like a brake controller or power inverter. my setup does clear the cupholder when its down but it puts my coffee cup within spill range of the cb. ken un-munge my e-mail address to reply. sure.. ill take a pic or 2 this morning... maybe ill tempt the net nannies and post it here.. *eg* fuck them bro postem roy .
From : redneck tookover hell
my only other option is to spend the $85.00 to replace the dang thing or try to fix it myself. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks!!! if a piece of plastic cupholder is that important to you you need to re-evaluate your priorities in life politics the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich. .
From : mac davisnosey
on sat 19 jun 2004 020244 -0400 officer guyjenkins@hotmail.com wrote the cheap piece of &^%#%@ dodge calls a cup holder that flips up in the dash of my 99 quad cab truck has broken one of the little plastic parts off and i cannot get the thing out of the dash. my only other option is to spend the $85.00 to replace the dang thing or try to fix it myself. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks!!! we hate the damn cup holder.... too big for just 2 cups and always squeaked when it was down... i built a center console out of scrap paneling that sits on the hump and wedges between the seat & cup holder part of the dash so i can remove it if we ever have a middle passenger.. its just a flat top box with non-slip tool box mat on top and a $5 wally world between the cushions cup holder thing... the main reason that i built it is that it was tough to find a place to mount a brake controller under the dash... and once it was mounted there was no place at all to put a cb or power inverter so theyre mounted to the box... mac .
From : terra
nosey wrote we hate the damn cup holder.... too big for just 2 cups and always squeaked when it was down... i built a center console out of scrap paneling that sits on the hump and wedges between the seat & cup holder part of the dash so i can remove it if we ever have a middle passenger.. its just a flat top box with non-slip tool box mat on top and a $5 wally world between the cushions cup holder thing... the main reason that i built it is that it was tough to find a place to mount a brake controller under the dash... and once it was mounted there was no place at all to put a cb or power inverter so theyre mounted to the box... mac can you e-mail a picture of that to me right now i have my cb mounted to an l shaped piece of 3/4 plywood. the horizontal bottom section lays flat on the floor and slides under the center seat section and the radio is mounted to the front side of the vertical section. it works well but there is no room on it for anything else like a brake controller or power inverter. my setup does clear the cupholder when its down but it puts my coffee cup within spill range of the cb. ken un-munge my e-mail address to reply. you might want to look at a center console piece on a manual transmission truck... cuz.. these plywood ls and scrap panel boxes sound ugly! my 2001 5-speed doesnt have any cupholders on the dash but there are three built into the plastic console around the shifter. it isnt so big that it wedges between the seat and dash so youd need to anchor it some other way. a cb and brake controller would probably fit in the space that the shifter normally occupies. an inverter if not too bulky could fit in the hollow space underneath. .
From : mac davis
on sat 19 jun 2004 120420 -0400 nosey kfrei43@removethis.hotmail.com wrote can you e-mail a picture of that to me right now i have my cb mounted to an l shaped piece of 3/4 plywood. the horizontal bottom section lays flat on the floor and slides under the center seat section and the radio is mounted to the front side of the vertical section. it works well but there is no room on it for anything else like a brake controller or power inverter. my setup does clear the cupholder when its down but it puts my coffee cup within spill range of the cb. ken un-munge my e-mail address to reply. sure.. ill take a pic or 2 this morning... maybe ill tempt the net nannies and post it here.. *eg* mac .
From : roy
the cheap piece of &^%#%@ dodge calls a cup holder that flips up in the dash of my 99 quad cab truck has broken one of the little plastic parts off and i cannot get the thing out of the dash. my only other option is to spend the $85.00 to replace the dang thing or try to fix it myself. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks!!! genos has a cup holder that ties into the console or whatever you want to call it. roy .
From : officer
thanks bk you are a headache saver! and thanks to all who posted a reply. .