I broke my in dash cupholder in a 2004 Audi A4. Ordered another cupholder, and googled (http://www.audiworld.com/tech/int60.shtml) how to remove old one, and install new one. Looks like I'm going to have to take off the dash trim above cupholder to get to and remove it. I've removed the actual broken cupholder, but not the enclosure, which is essentially the important/troublesome part. The enclosure has some tabs which makes it a burden to take out. I'm concerned about damage to trim if I do it myself, anybody got any advice or think they could do it for me? I've got some pics below, the old/damaged cupholder and my new one, it's retractable, and also a picture of vacant cupholder with console/trim above cupholder enclosure.
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12/28/2009 10:24:52 PM

somebody show him Gronke's cupholder.

12/28/2009 10:27:32 PM

If the cup holder was the broken part, then why not slide out the new cup holder and put it in the old hole?

12/28/2009 10:31:37 PM

^^ EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT!

12/28/2009 10:58:39 PM

i'm having trouble seeing how the old one would come out w/o taking the trim off, but putting the new one in requires that the trim be removed

12/28/2009 11:23:47 PM

Take a 2L bottle and cut strips out for protection which you can use as a tool to slide in cracks or as as protection to cover the trim from a metal blade.

If you can just replace the cupholder, that'd probably be easiest.

[Edited on December 28, 2009 at 11:44 PM. Reason : New Coke bottles suck for this.]

12/28/2009 11:44:09 PM

Has to be whole enclosure....I need to get the old enclosure out, and if I what I'm reading is correct, the new enclosure (with cupholder inside it) will just slide in. Anybody taken apart the dash trim above cupholder before?

^^, I just used a screw driver and worked it a bit to get the actual cupholder out. Enclosure is in there with tabs abovie it that secure it in.

[Edited on December 29, 2009 at 12:16 AM. Reason : .]

12/29/2009 12:13:07 AM

oh, i see.

it looks to me like you could just grab and pull

12/29/2009 12:18:25 AM

The pics are on TWW somewhere. I might have them buried on my computer. I'll take a look.

12/29/2009 10:27:34 AM

From my experience when working with stuff like this you'll probably have to take the trim off but it should only be clipped in. I thing that part covers the part that screws into the dash itself.
I could be wrong but it doesn't take much force.

12/29/2009 10:36:21 AM

Quote :

"it looks to me like you could just grab and pull"

I wish, the enclosure is actually a little bigger than the vacant hole in the dash, which is why I have to either remove the dash trim above it, or the radio below it, otherwise I would gladly just pull and negotiate it out, which is what I did with the actual cupholder.

12/29/2009 10:43:52 AM

i meant that you can probably just grab the trim piece and pull it off

12/29/2009 8:35:12 PM

^yes you can i see what you said there.

12/30/2009 12:59:58 PM