Wednesday, January 20, 2010

DIY Dashboard Cup Holder and Storage Corolla 93 - 97

This is a DIY of a 98-02 Dashboard Cup Holder and Storage conversion into a 93-97 Corolla .

This is what my 93 corolla had in the center consule area .

Then I purchased this from E-bay . There very hard to find and very expensive . But the cup holders are bigger and this has a door . What I did was take this apart from the side brackets and prepped it.



I bought some plastic black paint from Walmart . No sanding needed . Clean and get all the grease off before painting .




Then paint the cup holder as well cause it opens up.



As you can tell the one on the right is the old cup holder that the 93-97 corolla has .



Then you take off the cover that goes around the old storage box to expose the 4 phillips screw head bolts that hold the bracket . ( Advise : If you have a magnet screw driver thats better cause the bolts tend to drop off and its hard to get your fingers in there . )




You remove the bracket from the 93-97 corolla because you have to use this bracket so that the other stroage box fits good .




You line up the holes and the peg that sticks out of the new cup holder and then screw the bracket to the new storage box .




Screw the new storage box and cup holder .




Then put the cover back on and there you go now you can get a super size cup and put it in your new cup holder . (Reminder : Your gonna have to either with a dremel or a grinder slightly grind around the area of the frame around the cup holder so that it can easily slide in and out . Test cup holder and door . In my situation I had to grind off just a little . )




Then there you have it you can put your stuff in the box.



This is what the final out look you will see and nice clean storage box .

3 comments:

  1. do you have oem cupholder for sale? i need that bottom part only, if you do, contact me at jetzah (at) gmail.com

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  2. Id just like to point out that this is the standard center storage box/cup holder on most E110 chassis corollas, and all ZZE110 North American Corollas, so every Toyota Corolla 1998 till 2002 has this box, its easy to find and not rare.
    Thanks for the right up this is exactly what i was looking for, to see if this box fits.

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  3. Id just like to point out that this is the standard center storage box/cup holder on most E110 chassis corollas, and all ZZE110 North American Corollas, so every Toyota Corolla 1998 till 2002 has this box, its easy to find and not rare.
    Thanks for the right up this is exactly what i was looking for, to see if this box fits.

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