The former owner had cup holders in the car in the past and had made the holes before me. However I reinstalled new ones. Yes there are holes in the door panel now, however I have drink holders thank God on both sides.
They come from a Marine supply store and are used in boats.
I went to the hardware and got larger screws than what came with the holders.

Haha, we should start a drink holder club. Ironically, I detest drinking inside my vehicle, but living in the desert, keeping a cold drink is necessary when you don't have working air conditioning and temperatures reach 120 degrees in the summer.

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Great. Until the first time you slam the door and your drink keeps going...

Yea I did a little testing on this very subject.
I will have to be careful, but the holders do very good holding a full cup.
Only time will tell I guess?

they actually sell that holder at the MB dealer with mb tex matching colors...

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Since you have minimized the distance between these holders and the door hinges (pivot point) you have minimized the inertia a full cup would have when the door is closed. That doesn't mean the inertia is zero, just minimized.

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Squiggle, I'm going to make that in cherry. Hopefully I have a piece that I can use off my own land. Nice design.

Squiggle will a drink stay in the one you have in the center console, if you do an abrupt change in direction or a quick stop? I looked at some others like that one that was made an wondered about it. It doesn't look really very deep for a coffee to stay in.

Sorry to say that is exactly what happened a few more times than once when I installed them in my w116.

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this is terrible, how dare you puncture or admit to having bought a car with punctured door skins! for shame




actually Im visiting west marine this weekend to get a few for my and the wifes 123s, probably for the center console area though. I want to do crank windows on mine, which would interfere with this.

thanks for posting the part number!

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Do you have the part #? I'll net they cost $53.88 apiece, but still...

All I can say is that if all he ends up with is a "1/0 0" for that, he'll be lucky.

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I had a 95 E320 that had a set of the similar cup holders, dealer installed. After a while, they would pop open after shutting the door. Annoyed me to no end.

Then when you remove them, your left with four unsightly holes in the door panels.

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This one is deep (roughly 3"/7.5cm), and the wood goes down all the way to the bottom. There is no way a drink would spill in this thing. I wish the wood was a better match, but I couldn't pass it up for the price.

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Squiggle Dog, Where did you buy this, and the cost?