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Favorite Comment: Fixer DW says, “Spoiled brats. When I was your age, we held our drinks between our legs, and if we spilled on ourselves, it was our own fault.”
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hahaha
What will happen if you do a sharp turn to the right?
Then the car will enter another dimension and promptly fuse with the cup of coffee, resulting in this:
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it will splash everywhere… what do you think? duuh!! >.<
but atleast its still better than what you get in a BMW.
This is my point. That kludge failed!
What comes in a BMW?
I *guess* you aren’t allowed to have a drink in the car in Germany, so German cars sold in the US have sort of an afterthought cupholder that pops out of the dash and is pretty flimsy. I haven’t inspected BMWs, but Audis have that, last I checked. And sometimes Toyotas, for that matter. I don’t think people look at stuff like that enough when they buy cars– you don’t miss it until you realize it’s gone. If I found myself in such a luxury car, I’d probably have to buy rolls of duct tape for all passengers, and I don’t even have to belong to the mob to say something like that, it’s that annoying.
Volkswagen Beetles also have horrible cupholders. Good thing I’m not a fast food kind of person and don’t need them.
German/ Swedish cars sold in Europe don’t have cupholders, as people over there do NOT drink anything while driving. When they sell them here, they tend to have either totally unusable cupholders (my wife’s Jetta has them just below the ash tray, so that the only thing that’s short and thin enough is a pop can, but barely) or they have horribly made ones that break off within a week or so of purchase (Audis, some newer BMWs, Saabs,) Or, they sometimes… still… don’t have them at all.
And yes, Toyotas often have the pop- out- of- the- dash types, but they tend to be better made than European car cup holders.
Wait, they have ashtrays, but no cupholders? I should take up smoking while I sit in traffic, and give up caffeine, I guess.
my dads BMW has cubholders that go abit towards the driver.. horrible.
but there is still nothing worse than Renault cubholders. (my car) the Clio’s cupholder is fixed in the dash board and if you put a can in it, you can bet your life it will fall over at the slightest turn on the steering wheel.
But whilst its useless at holding drinks, its still very useful for holding loose change, receipts, cans that have no been opened, pens, cards, wallet, phone, glasses, the moons core. PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING EXCEPT HOLDING A DRINK TO BE HAD ON THE JOURNEY>>>
even if it still hold the drink steady, its not in a convinenet place to get the drink when driving at 80mph down the motorway.
“Cubholders?” What kind of cubs? Bears? Lions? Zombies? (That one is for ‘Rob n Coffey’.)
“have you ever Heard of useing it for nose wipe”
“why don’t you keep your reference to zombie to your self! I’m real sick of it , thinks”
I get it now–’Ron n Coffey’ has a COLD, and he is out of Kleenex, just has some TP handy now. Might even be saying things like, “cubholders” himself, actually, what with those stuffed-up sinuses. I’m sorry. Get well soon. O_o
If you are doing 80 on the superslab, the cup is conveniently at hand in case of an emergency. As well as the roll of Charmin to the lower left.
You will wish you had opened it and it spilled on your lap instead. then you will have oodles of time to sit in hospital spam all the cheeseburger sites as well as set up a fictional zombie log.
Ding! Or rather sizzle or crack
why don’t you keep your reference to zombie to your self! I’m real sick of it , thinks
well hopefully the “TAPED” evidence doesnt hold up in court when you have a accident.
… until it doesn’t.
Way to use tape without waste. Well done.
good kludge. please allow contents to cool before applying to lap area.
Such an engineering opportunity wasted. He should have run the tap THROUGH the roll and affixed it to the to and bottom of the dash. It would have been far more secure.
Also, why isn’t that DUCT TAPE?
This is the solution I have been looking for! The ’90 Sentra (pictured, or identical) has no cupholder and has resulted in some bad spills. **Looks for that near-used roll of duct tape**
yes! that’s my car, except mine came with a cup holder… right about where the toilet paper is jammed in the center console.
haha I also drive a sentra (’94) but I use the seatbelt to hold my drinks
Does that qualify you for using the HOV lane?
I have a ’93, and that dash is pretty damn familiar. Unfortunately, my seatbelts just hang limply from the doors, only slightly less useless than the cupholders. I have to tuck them back into their slots every time I get out of the car or the metal thingie swings just right so that the door bounces back open. Not sure how to successfully work duct tape into this one…
No, no, no– you need a heavy, wide roll of duct tape, and then you set it on the seat, so it doesn’t swing or slide around. Amateur!
The Maxwell roast they started selling at 7/11 is so good. It’s good to the last dro…AAAAAHHHHHP!!!!! IT BURNS! OH GOD IT BURHERHERHERNS!!
I hope spills are why the toilet paper roll is being stored in the lower part of the console. If it isn’t the reason why, I don’t want to know!
hahaha you’re right! i hadn’t even noticed the toilet paper.
honestly, what would happen if he made a sharp turn (like first comment) or just suddenly had to slam on the brakes?
I thought it was paper towels, to deal with all the coffee that’s sloshing around.
Hope they have rubber floor mats.
have you ever Heard of useing it for nose wipe
Must EVERYTHING be improvised in here??
I bet he put the icecream-sticker left of it so the coffee would cool down before it hits the driver in case of a hard turn right. Sadly for the passenger seat, there is no sticker protection what-so-ever.
the 7-11 coffee must give them the runs….there’s toilet paper stuffed in the dash beside the “cup” holder
This may be a quick fix but a quicker one would have been to skip the tape and just dump the coffee out on the carpet yourself.
In it’s attempt to escape the confines of the vehicle, the cup designed rappelling gear out of a roll of packing tape. Ingenious!
There’s an idea that’ll stick.
i like the toilet paper roll Lol
I’d fix it on the sides as well . Not to have my precious coffee all shaken
I want to see the holder he made for his mama’s spit cup! I bet this guy has a mullet.
Also available in duct tape gray or black matte.
Is it just me, or is that cup in the perfect position to dump a steaming load of boiling coffee onto the driver’s nuts the first time he takes a hard corner?
Not only is this dangerous, but I think it was rather disgusting to employ a used condom to attach this device to the dash.
Looking at this suddenly makes me want to sing.
(to the tune of Duck Tales)
Life is nothing but a Kludge
On the dashboard!
Ice cream sticker, roll of brown tape
It’s a small hoard!
Might hold my coffee
And keep it off me!
Duct Tape! Woo-oo!…
I like this. No one ever applauds when I happen to sing in here, but I’m not disgruntled about it or anything…
it appears to be a Honda Accord dash, I’m guessing about 1992. Notice the handy roll of toilet paper stuck in the lower dash (below HVAC) for handy clean up in an emergency!
I would say it is mazda mx3 1993
’73 Buick
Honey, I’m so glad you came with me on this road trip. How about some nice, hot McDonald’s coffee next time?
That Ice Cream sticker must remind him that he can put his ice Cream Cone there to. Along with everyother thing that you can put in a cup holder.
This is a new way of birth control. “OUCH MY ****”
No kids for life =D
Good God I wish I’d thought of that! neither my ’86 Honda Civic nor my ’86 Volvo 240DL have had cup holders! My road trips in the Volvo (The “Tub”) will be MUCH better this summer! Can’t wait!
What strikes me isn’t the duct-tape holder, it’s the ridiculous size of the cup. Maybe a regular sized cup would actually stay stable in any holder the car has, or just on the passenger seat. There’s no need for something with the height of a radio tower and the stability of a Windows 98 PC.
I like my coffee shaken, not stirred
Spoiled brats. When I was your age, we held our drinks between our legs, and if we spilled on ourselves, it was our own fault.
…and we LIKED it!
I’m sorry but this is not my cup of tea.
Interesting. Reading the comments, this appears to be a common Fuji motor company dashboard in the early 90′s (I have a `93 Subaru Legacy with the same layout). Yes, the pop-out cup holders it comes with are pretty much useless (designed for holding 12oz cans and nothing else), and probably removed when he installed the aftermarket radio.
I’d probably add some tape to the bottom so it would hold a bottle as well. Maybe some other supporting tape so it doesn’t swing going around corners and frost heaves. Once again, intelligence begins with a roll of duct tape (or in this case, packing tape).
In my first car “drink holder” was a title. “Here, hold this drink for me.”
ok, im sure this is a nissan sentra because i drive a ’92. My car has cup holders, two of em….like right under where that nice toilet paper roll is.
I have that same stereo faceplate!! Is it weird that I am this excited because of it?
genuis. just plain genuis.
About 20 years ago, I had a 1969 Mercedes-Benz (yeah, it was old and falling to bits, but it still went). It had proper cup-holders, and ashtrays, in all front and back seats, not to mention front- and rear-seat cigarette lighters. Then, sometime in the ’90s, the health-and-safety spoilsports decided that hot drinks and driving did not mix. Hence, modern European cars do not have real cupholders, but they do have sophisticated stereos, trip computers, sat-nav etc. These, of course, are far less distracting than a cup of coffee and a cigarette
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I love this! it reminds me of my first husband, who was always thinking up stuff like this. I think it’s clever as can be.
The kludge, or having more than one husband?
My question is why they have toilet paper there.
Okay — let me clarify on foreign car cupholders.
1. They do drink coffee and drive. Some Europeans live on a coffee I.V. However, they don’t drink ANYTHING in the size of 44oz. Most coffee comes in tiny cups (think 6oz). Therefore you don’t need anything ridiculously sturdy to hold it. So they put them in, cause it is handy, but they don’t realize that in the US most people drive around with cups that hold over a liter of fluid.