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I've been working on installing a cup holder in the useless air bag blank space and have been pleasantly surprised by how well my mkII prototype is working. After a spirited drive to work along dual carriageway, A and B roads and a couple of roundabouts, I only had a minor spillage from a full cup






It's still a work in progress and needs some (a lot!) of refinement, but it's not working too badly for a bit of sponge, wire and an Aldi bag liner

Looks good but why remove the air bag or wasnt there one there in the first place ?

I think the base models only had the drivers airbag fitted.....

Yeah, unless your cover has SRS on it, it's just a blank.

This is an innovative idea to utilise this for a much needed facility. Even the mk2 cup holders in the arm rest are insecure.

And SNA400!

Very nice Jan, looks really good.

Can you give details on how you made the "hinged" for the air bag blank?

I never had an airbag in there Tibs


Mowog it's not actually hinged as such just yet, it more 'suspended' on a piece of fairly sturdy wire.

I drilled a hole into the side of the blank, threaded a bolt through it and used a nut to hold a loop at the end of the wire. You can just about see it on the side of this pic:





Essentially, I just cut down a car washing sponge to measure and roughly cut a couple of holes into it.






As said, it needs refining but the idea works ok