Cup holder inserts?
 

I pick up the new girl in the morning, a 2016 BRZ limited. It will be good to be back in a twin since I parted ways with the 2013 FR-S a while back. Question though, has anyone found a solution to the cupholders? As wide as they are cups of coffee tend to move around a lot resulting in significant spillage of blistering hot liquid during even moderate cornering or speed changes. Huge cups fit great, water bottles flip around a little, but is there an insert or something that someone has found that makes it more coffee friendly?

Just cut some foam and line it. That's what i did for the water bottle holder in the door to keep the water bottle from moving around so much.

Coffee mug cozy?

You're doing it wrong:
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I guess there was a failed kickstarter for this:
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This is a driving machine, not a cafe.

Get a cup with a lid and don't drive crazy when it's full.

What this guy said. Also a guy a few months ago was trying to solve this exact problem. He put 2 layers of Velcro inside the cup holder to fill it out

http://initiald-movie.com/?p=1253

You need this app

Jk aside, you can just get a coffee cozy O.o I saw a few at ross for like 5 bucks or less before. lol

I don't allow any uncapped drinks or eating in my car. my buddies all say I'm too anal about it lol,

Nice.

It's not even an uncapped issue. A covered coffee makes a mess when it tips over because of the over large and under deep cupholders. I was just wondering if there was a ready solution. I can craft something if I need to which it kindof seems like is the case.

We didn't come up with an answer for the last guy either, he used Velcro. Any foam or whatnot would work. Now... You could design and 3d print an insert for your cup holder... make it as tall as you want

I have already started on a design that would replace the factory tray. I have some ideas so we'll see if there's something worth sharing so others can 3D print their own when it's over with. Hopefully I'll be reporting back on this in the not too distant future.

It does seem to be a wide spread problem. Shouldn't be too hard to design

Quick update
 

Today was the first commute with a stop for coffee. I haven't had time to solve the problem with an elegant solution so an old bar towel that lives in every car I've ever owned got stretched across the cup holder and served as an insert to stabilize the cup. This will do for now, but I do hope to find a more elegant solution as time permits.

I figured this out the other day. I put a micro fiber over my cup holder, then put the cup in! Its great because when it spills it absorbs it. Now to find a way to keep atleast half the coffee in the cup

LOL I just read this I should have read your post before I posted

Great minds thinking alike or something. :)

I might try to model something up for this. Are thermal cups all about the same size?

All cupholders are designed to fit McDonald's drink cups FYI. That is the benchmark cup size :lol:

Yeah but I was thinking of making something taller than the cup holder to reduce the top heaviness

Not a bad idea! A cup holder sleeve!!

Do you have a thermal cup? Can you measure it at the base and say... 5 inches off the table? I need diameters. If you don't have calipers, can you use string and calculate diameter from circumference? I need a diameter on the cup holder itself too(my car is at the shop)

I drink Tim Horton's so I dont have a thermal cup. You can wrap a string around it then measure the string to get the diameter. I can probably measure the cupholder at some point

Why does the brand of coffee matter? I don't have a cup to measure, I don't drink coffee, just trying to help

I get paper cups lol, I dont own a thermal cup. oh man this project is not going anywhere fast :lol: lets get on kick start

Well step 1 is too buy a thermal cup. Step 2 measure it. Step 3 I design something in the next 2 weeks, step 4 you pay for it to be made or find someone with a 3d printer to make it. 5, use it, discover you're better off without coffee and throw it away

Sounds about right. What if we just put beer koozies on the thermal cups?
http://bensbargains.com/thecheckout/...06/koozie1.jpg

Well we all suggested that but the guys with the problems don't like that so I foolishly tried to solve someone else's problem that has already been solved life 10 times

or put one of these bad boys on the passenger headrest. Its not like your drifting and drinking coffee at the same time on the way to work.

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You don't?

That vtec bro

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Still don't understand that. I think everyones just mad Honda came up with it first

I thought it was GM that came up with it and sold it to Honda?

I doubt it but I've never researched it. Why wouldn't GM use it? Surely they had an need for greater fuel economy and a little extra power on demand

Wikipedia says Honda did. Good enough for me

I think it was because they could never get it to work. but if memory serves me right GM came up with the concept and failed then some guy from Rhonda made it work?

LOL yeah good enough for me too hahaha! And have you ever been for a ride in a VTEC car? I think its the most underwhelming thing I have ever experienced in my life. Everyone hypes it up so I went for a ride and was like WTF was that did you just hit your powerband? My FRS kicks harder when the tune switches from open loop to closed loop hahahaha

I have never. But 10-15hp is better than none. On some of the lower tier cars that's a 10% bump. I'll take that. Shit people put CAI on the FRS for a 2hp bump and are excited about that, at least the Honda guys didn't spend 400$ on theirs.

And is it hyped that much by the Honda guys or everyone else who needs to find a way to justify making fun of hondas?