Hey everyone, I am one of the proud & brave that bought a Catera with a broken cup holder. It took many many minutes before I could deal with it no longer. I checked ebay to find that people are willing to pay $70+ to keep a drink in their car. That's insane. So I thought up a couple good solutions for a replacement. The idea came from a Firebird that I once owned that had the cupholders on the lower part of the door (see where I'm going with this). I also remembered a dual adjustable cupholder that I once had in another car & how much I liked it. I thought to myself, that it would be perfect if I could somehow cut it in half & use one side for each door. Went to autoparts store the next day & after about an hour with a dremel (I'm sure a box knife would work too) I had cup holders. Not only that, but it worked great. I can now hold 52oz. QT sodas in my car & larger. All for about $5-10 at the local auto retailer (got mine at Advanced Autoparts/Parts America). Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures while doing the install, so I'm going to show a few stock pics & hope creativity will take over.
Here's a pic of the cupholder
First you need to cut it in half here
Next trim them to fit the doors, each side of the car will be different. I had to trim more off on the speaker side & less off on the other side (remember, it's easier to cut than add)
Then the last step is to screw it in. Conveniently, there is a screw hole in the middle of where the cup will rest & so I used one drywall screw straight into the map pocket (had to strech it out a little ways, but it worked). Then, I ran another screw at an angle through the little holes in the corner near the door like below
Here's what I ended up with
Here's a link to the cupholder on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Hopkins-SMT-CH...qid=1160446895
I also found this on ebay that looks like it would work too with less work (no cutting), but I don't think it'll have quite the same finish:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ADJUS...temZ4597406318
