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I thought about commenting on this one myself. I believe the 2000 uses the updated cupholder, which really isn't serviceable in the dash, you need to replace the whole thing. On the 98-99's. I repaired alot of those, instead of replacing, there are about 3 parts you can buy to repair the old style cupholders: The spring is the main thing; the cupholders are left open and someone bangs into it with their knee when entering the truck and dislodges the main part of the cupholder, next thing the spring is gone. The other 2 parts are like a black plastic "latch" piece, which is what keeps the cupholder folded up into the recepticle, and also this neat geared wheel part, which makes the cupholder swing in a slow motion kind of move, instead of a quick "flop". These pieces are all pretty easy to install, except the geared wheel can be a pain, but not as big a pain as replacing the whole cupholder assm.. Even if the main recepticle (the part the cup actually sits in) can be removed from a whole assembly and replaced using the old receiver part, and in good conscience this is an appropriate repair, assuming all the other pieces are in good shape.
I tried looking in my info briefly to see if the 2000 had the newer style cupholders, which I consider to be "non-repairable" but came up empty handed so far. IF that's what the 2000 has, depending on the problem, you probably need to replace it. That involves removing the glove box and removing the screw over on the right side of the dash so you can slightly pull out on the right side of the dash, and get your arm in their with a teeny tiny torx socket to remove the cupholder.
If in fact you have the "first version" cupholder, then you just need the "latch piece" that I mentioned in order to fix your cupholder. I don't think they sell parts at all to repair the second version cupholder.
Gilly
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