honda wanting �40 for an entire new cup holder unit.

i only need the pence-worth spring clip that holds/releases the cupholder lid closed.
not sure my wire-bending skills are upto this sort of 'bodge' so does anyone have an idea on a fix?

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Silly question but is the lid refusing to close on the centre console?

 

yes, mine is busted as well, wont stay down

 

moves fine - just wont lock in it's down position. had console off and spring isnt there at all...

 

Mine was like that when I got the car. I had to unpopper the centre console at the back and lift it up and inch and then close the cup holder. Something underneath the cc was stopping it from locking closed (if that makes sense). Works to this day

 

My 05 "cup holder" thing cover stopped retracting automatically (I had to push it back) as the spring had come off. I asked Honda to re-attach it whilst it was in for a service, but they couldn't do it either. Got a new one on warranty (the whole box with lid - it all screws to the underside of the console).

The service bloke said "You'll be glad it's under warranty, guess how much" - I guesed

 

Cup holder, where's that??!!

Is it near the secret compartment?

 

luckly the AP1 cup holder is ~

 

at the risk of being branded unhelpfull (I prefer being branded as drunk and back late from the pub) why bother. a good tug on the little blighter and you no longer will have problems, think of it like a bad toothe.

Cup holders are sent from Satan and are the reserve of overweight Yanks and gullible Germans ( gullible because they think they have to have them to sell their cars to the formentioned yanks).

Where's my pint...

 

yep your unhelpful but it looks like a real easy and quick fix if you have osmething appropriate.
and even if i dont use something on my car, i still like it working (yes i very particular about some things)

no clip or spring. on mine, if you take out the cup holder, and look on the drivers side locking mechanism, is a black arm (part of the lids' pivot arm) that goes over the small grey locking arm (screwed into the side of the cup holder.
you'll notice it's loose; which is correct.

right.... remove the lid (remove the tentioned spring, the philips screw behind it and remove philips screw on other side). and gently pull the pivot arm away from it's locating pins.
look on the side of the lid where there grey locking arm would be, and on the inside of it, is a broken bit of plastic... replace that with something (not sure what yet) and it's fixed.
haynes book of lies bit: refit is reverse of removal

if you look carefully this gray locking arm has a camber on it (about 3o'clock if you hold cupholder the right way up). this now-repaired bit of plastic will drag down this, and move the locking arm to it's 'engage' side.
i beleive this is how these pins break in the first place; excessive force.

hope you understand and it's helpful to those in same problem as me.