Thread: Has anybody successfully REPAIRED a cupholder?
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Old Jul 24, 2012 | 12:30 AM
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Default Re: Has anybody successfully REPAIRED a cupholder?
I can see how this argument started, the OP used the word 'latch', and I would use the word 'catch'. The catch is connected to the silver plate, or latch to me, by a bar. Confusion caused by the perceived meaning of a simple word.

The silver plate on top of the cup holder is a lever, you can see the pivot pin in the side of it. When the CH is open and you push against the silver plate it forces the catch to lock even tighter, but if you pinch the top of the silver plate toward the black part of the holder behind it, the catch is retracted and the CH swings down easily. Quite clever really.

There is another catch than holds the CH down, this is hard to see as it is something to do with an arm that is on the front vertical face of the CH. If the CH does not stay down this is where the problem lies.

I apologize to the OP if I upset him by not seeing his problem but I am a little p!ssed that he jumped on me when I was the only one who attempted to help him, it will not happen again. Pizzaguys comments, or maybe that should be Racerguy , only added fuel to the fire.
 
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