who knew that you can take out the bottom piece of the cupholder to reveal a deeper cup holder on the cup holder nearest to the center compartment...

i didn't know....just wanna let you guys know...

 

I noticed that as soon as I got the car home.

 

ooh! ooh! I knew! um.... ok, someone actually pointed it out in one of these boards a few months ago... but, it's still a nifty find!

 

Just a little side note about this lovely feature. I haven't used it too much, but I do often have a drink in that slot. This weekend, I was cleaning up my car, and I pulled that out to wipe the plastic down with armorall (I don't know why but that SP just looks wrong to me). Anyways... Long story short... I noticed a fair amount of water built up in the bottom below that piece. You all might want to be careful of this. The condensation from your drinks has to go somewhere... apparently that's where it's going. Pull that out and whipe it all down every now and then... otherwise, I could see where mildew or other science projects might begin to form if it's left long enough.

 

It still amazes me that this has been discussed over and over for almost a year now. Anyway I removed mine and never put it back in. No point for it unless you are driving with 2 cans of pop.

 

The great cupholder controversy that just will not die!

 

I've seen it a million times too. A little TOO much. Yet, this new discovery deserved at least a note, I thought. If you take out the spacer, there's not much to worry about.

 

I guess not many people actually read the owner's manual, that's how I learned about the cupholder insert and some other tricks that people have posted here as interesting "discoveries"

 

yup, me 2

 

I noticed it right away because my focus had removeable inserts so you could clean them easier, and I thought my mustang would have the same. When I pulled the tab I was expecting something to come up that stretched across both cupholders.

Now i have a great sunglasses holder.

 

Its a great place to stash really small valuables too.. Say if you wanted to stick 5-10 bucks in the car for emergency gas money. Its an easily overlooked spot, even if the car were broken into.

 

bad karma thoughts, bad karma thoughts... no one wants to break into our beautiful machines... no one wants to break into our beautiful machines.

 

Ya know Ive always wanted to connect the positive terminal of a battery to the chassis of a car and see what happened for anti theft... Nah, no good, no good.