Centre cup holder add on

Is anything like this available to buy? I don't have a 3d printer but would really like this for mine.
 
@bfayers I've created a shorter version without the front cubby section. If you print it, please share a picture. I've also made the slots longer and wider for bigger phones.

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MG4 Front Cubby Cup Holder Short by dsimpkins
 
Fireman frog said:
Afternoon all,

Given the strange position of the cup holders, has anyone found an insert for the storage area to give you two additional (useable) cup holders for the front of the car?

Hopefully that makes sense.

Thanks
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Does this help? You would need 2 (1 for each side). As you can see it even holds a 1 litre bottle whilst freeing up the cup holder. Rubber strips stick to sides of insert, then twist base to expand until tight & swivel top to required position. Temu about a year ago, bought for my Skoda Enyaq.
 

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dsimpkins said:
@bfayers I've created a shorter version without the front cubby section. If you print it, please share a picture. I've also made the slots longer and wider for bigger phones.

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Uploaded to Thingiverse here:
MG4 Front Cubby Cup Holder Short by dsimpkins
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Printed!

Generally fine, arguably not wide enough; but i looked and it fits the rubber mat in the bottom of that area so not sure what could be done about that really.

Only other issue is that where the lip is for the change in height is too far forward so not perfectly stable, but drinks would probably hold it down anyway so I'm not too concerned for now.

I also modified it in slicer to have a much larger front cupholder for my big water bottle.

Ended up printing this one in two parts and glueing together due to printing issues of my own fault;
First time using PETG and was printing too fast, you can see remnants of that issue further towards the front of the holder in my images, slowed it down and it's fine but I was too far into the split in half prints by then to re-start a second time, and then I messed up the retaction settings for the back half too. Should probably give it a good sanding and maybe it hit it with some spray paint at some point but good enough for now.
 

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bfayers said:
Printed!

Generally fine, arguably not wide enough; but i looked and it fits the rubber mat in the bottom of that area so not sure what could be done about that really.

Only other issue is that where the lip is for the change in height is too far forward so not perfectly stable, but drinks would probably hold it down anyway so I'm not too concerned for now.

I also modified it in slicer to have a much larger front cupholder for my big water bottle.

Ended up printing this one in two parts and glueing together due to printing issues of my own fault;
First time using PETG and was printing too fast, you can see remnants of that issue further towards the front of the holder in my images, slowed it down and it's fine but I was too far into the split in half prints by then to re-start a second time, and then I messed up the retaction settings for the back half too. Should probably give it a good sanding and maybe it hit it with some spray paint at some point but good enough for now.
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Thank you for sharing!
Maybe i can remix a new version with the right sizes of the car. For PETG i recommended 50 mms print speed. Needs very long but good results!
 
paswotz said:
Thank you for sharing!
Maybe i can remix a new version with the right sizes of the car. For PETG i recommended 50 mms print speed. Needs very long but good results!
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Yep I was trying to print at about half of what I print PLA at (which is about 250, so I was trying 120) and that didn't go too well; second (rear) half printed much better as you can see and that was at 80mm/s, but I messed up with retraction and lowered it too much (evidently 0.4 was nowhere near enough, back up to 1.4 now)
 
bfayers said:
Printed!

Generally fine, arguably not wide enough; but i looked and it fits the rubber mat in the bottom of that area so not sure what could be done about that really.

Only other issue is that where the lip is for the change in height is too far forward so not perfectly stable, but drinks would probably hold it down anyway so I'm not too concerned for now.

I also modified it in slicer to have a much larger front cupholder for my big water bottle.

Ended up printing this one in two parts and glueing together due to printing issues of my own fault;
First time using PETG and was printing too fast, you can see remnants of that issue further towards the front of the holder in my images, slowed it down and it's fine but I was too far into the split in half prints by then to re-start a second time, and then I messed up the retaction settings for the back half too. Should probably give it a good sanding and maybe it hit it with some spray paint at some point but good enough for now.
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Thanks for the feedback, and great photos. I used the rubber mat in the bottom for sizing it, thought, but didn't realise how big a gap either side that would create.

I can make changes in Fusion 360 easily if you can give me some measurements. Looks like you can get a straw either side, so I guess it's what the diameter of those are (unless they're a bit squished, plus how much I need to move the step backwards. I could also make a longer version with larger cup holes, I based the holes on the maximum of all the coffee cups/water bottles we had in the house.
 
dsimpkins said:
Thanks for the feedback, and great photos. I used the rubber mat in the bottom for sizing it, thought, but didn't realise how big a gap either side that would create.

I can make changes in Fusion 360 easily if you can give me some measurements. Looks like you can get a straw either side, so I guess it's what the diameter of those are (unless they're a bit squished, plus how much I need to move the step backwards. I could also make a longer version with larger cup holes, I based the holes on the maximum of all the coffee cups/water bottles we had in the house.
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They are a bit squished, I'll go out to the car tomorrow with some calipers and try to get all those measurements.

I wouldn't worry too much about my very large water bottle, I suppose quite a lot of people may have bottles that big though, for reference the hole I cut out in slicer was more of an ellipse at 92x95mm

Also, personally, the slots on the side aren't particularly useful to me but that's because my fold is quite thick, I considered filling them in using the slicer but didn't want to mess up the top being flat.

Other than that, actually having more cupholders & the ability to hold my large water bottle is great.
 

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