Miata Mailing List: December 1992, Message #26
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   From: (none)
Subject: bogus cup holder to avoid
   Date: (none)

I recently ordered the expandable/collapsible cup holder from MM Marketing,
and it's a total piece of junk.  

First, it doesn't open all the way unless the passenger seat is all the way
back (if there's a box of tapes behind the seat, you're out of luck.)
Second, it doesn't lock in to position horizontally, so it's really easy to
"expand" it by wiggling the cup as you put it in, meaning the cup will fall.
Third, it doesn't lock in to position vertically, so it's really easy to
collapse the cup holder if you bump its rim with your cup.  This means that
you have to actually *look* at the cup holder to put a cup into it, you
can't do it by feel alone.  (I've had it for a few weeks now, so it's not
just a matter of getting used to it.)

I also ordered their mercury-switch trunk light, which is a reasonable device,
but came with the worst of all possible mounting instructions.  I would have
done much better if I had realized from the start that I should just ignore
their badly xeroxed illustrations from the start.  

Here's the best part: one section said "attach it with the provided screw to
the existing hole.  But if the hole is too big, drill a new one next to it."
The hole in question is in the stamped sheet metal of the inside of the trunk.
Why do I find it hard to believe that there's *any* variation in the size of
this hole, and that they knew it wasn't going to fit?

	-- Jamie