Hi all,


After thinking way too much on how I was going to fab and secure a cupholder in my center console or on my vents or on my...whatever, I decided that I'm going to follow Suginami's lead and buy the Fischer brand cupholders. I bought mine like he did from Griot's garage, a really good web retailer for car care products. Great customer service and return policy too.

Griot's somewhat makes a half hearted attempt to rebrand Fischer's cupholder by packaging it up in a plastic bag with their instruction sheet, but it says Fischer on the inside of the cupholder. One other thread mentioned that an ebay seller named netropy sells them as well. On the pricing, Griots was a few bucks more expensive, so the risk of buying from an ebay seller who might not have the same customer service was not enough to *not* buy from griots.

So I attached a few pics for public consumption. Of note, it is very well built and perhaps overengineered. It's really thick plastic and of good quality. There's a spring hinged device that provides inward tension on whatever sized can or cup you put in there and that tension allows the cupholder to have a better fit than most generic cupholders. In one of the pics you will see that I used my thumb to press outwards.

As it is nearly midnight, I could not install it in the door. So for now, I used some double sided tape and installed it sideways (clamshell facing me---its the only way it will fit in my car). I am a morning coffee addict, so I must test this out tomorrow morning I'll post pics of that tomorrow as well as the door install. I am going to remove this from the center console this weekend, but I want to see for myself if its the real deal.

a typical canned soda fits no problem. one thing I use alot is my nalgene 32oz'er. unfortunately, this girthly beast does not fit.

on the pics: i purposely lightened the 2nd and 3rd pics from left because it was so black that you could not see the features/lines of the cupholder.

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