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Originally posted by TrouTrout:
Originally posted by RawBurt:
Well thanks for the absolutely pointless input... 
Let's see.... Spills drink twice, and breaks cupholder to fix. OR... Spill drink once, and drink out of plastic bottles from now on.
I'd say that's good input! Who knows how many more people there are on here like you?! 
I'm just trying to save their carpet. 
The cup holder is not broken... the plastic piece comes out and can go back in! As easy as that! Oh and my poor carpet.... who would know that SPRITE would stain a midnihgt blue interior!  Once again thanks for the absolutely pointless input.
I would appreciate it if from now on you just didnt reply to my posts. Hopefully this may avoid some conflict. Thanks for your cooperation...
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I had that fold out cupholder in my 95LX... and it was the worst cupholder i have ever seen. if i went around a right hand corner then bottle/can would weigh enough to flip the cup holder straight up and it would fall out... One time i had one of thoes taco bell cups and it fell over right onto the floor under my feet.... i got soo lucky and the lid stayed on (it was a full cup)
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Originally posted by chill1110:
Now that were on this weird topic...what is the little flip out plastic tab right beside the glove compartment latch? for Are you supposed to hang clothes there? If so maybe baby clothes of miget clothes....odd.
It is a litter bag holder. It is ment for plastic grocery bags.
I don't think it is in a convenient spot though. My wife bought a "litter chute" made by case logic at Target for our Escape. I liked it so well that I bought one for the Contour. It hangs behind the seat from a strap that goes around the headrest bars. When it is time to empty it, you remove it from the car, undo the velcro at the bottom and dump it into the trash. When she forst got it I laughed at it but I soon found it to be easy to use, just about the right size, and not obvious. They come in black, gray, tan, and hawaiian print. Now the hawaiian print would probably be more than a bit noticable.
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Originally posted by Big Jim:
Originally posted by chill1110:
Now that were on this weird topic...what is the little flip out plastic tab right beside the glove compartment latch? for Are you supposed to hang clothes there? If so maybe baby clothes of miget clothes....odd.
It is a litter bag holder. It is ment for plastic grocery bags.
When they first launched the Con-tique, Ford marketed it as a "purse hanger" - women drivers apparently hated that their purses went from the passenger seat to the floor.
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You reminded me of a High School auto shop thing. I was assigned to do a tune up on a car belonging to one of the women teachers. I did and confirmed that all the settings were correct. Point gap, dwell, timing, idle mixture and idle speed, etc. Road tested car with shop instructor and all seemed well.
The teacher returned about a week later saying that her fuel milage was very low. I went back through my work to see what went wrong. This was, after all, a "come back" and I was still just a student, not a "real" mechanic. I found the plugs lightly fouled with black soot. I cleaned the plugs and carefully disassembled the carb for inspection. Finding nothing wrong, I put everything back together and road tested the car. Pulled a plug for inspection and it was burning correctly. Shop instructor road tested the car and released it to the teacher.
She returned a few days later and said it was no better, perhaps even a little worse. Before going any further, the shop instructor asked if they could go on a road test, with her driving. She said yes. As they got into the car, she pulled the choke handle most of the way out and hung her purse on it.
Maybe you need to be old enough to remember manual chokes to really understand this.
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i don't personally remember manual chokes(im 27) but my dad told me about them. as for the cupholders, in my 99csvt the right one holds an airfreshener that fits perfectly. the left holds the small mic for auto tuning my head unit. i find them worthless for anything else. as for drinks....the barrels i drink out of are too big to fit any where but the passenger, seat belted in so as not to fall during a quick stop. if im on a trip then i use a 1L or 1.5L bottle of water and place it between the seat and the door. fits perfectly.
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Originally posted by Big Jim:
You reminded me of a High School auto shop thing. I was assigned to do a tune up on a car belonging to one of the women teachers. I did and confirmed that all the settings were correct. Point gap, dwell, timing, idle mixture and idle speed, etc. Road tested car with shop instructor and all seemed well.
The teacher returned about a week later saying that her fuel milage was very low. I went back through my work to see what went wrong. This was, after all, a "come back" and I was still just a student, not a "real" mechanic. I found the plugs lightly fouled with black soot. I cleaned the plugs and carefully disassembled the carb for inspection. Finding nothing wrong, I put everything back together and road tested the car. Pulled a plug for inspection and it was burning correctly. Shop instructor road tested the car and released it to the teacher.
She returned a few days later and said it was no better, perhaps even a little worse. Before going any further, the shop instructor asked if they could go on a road test, with her driving. She said yes. As they got into the car, she pulled the choke handle most of the way out and hung her purse on it.
Maybe you need to be old enough to remember manual chokes to really understand this.
That is hilarious.   I'm 29 and I remember manual chokes, I had one on my '85 RX-7. I'm not sure it was stock, though.
By the way, I bought the cupholder mod from my nearby Ford stealership, and I can drive spiritedly with anything from a skinny Red Bull can to a super size McD's drink in there (as long as it has at least a couple gulps out of it.) I thought the part # was in the FAQs.
Edit: the part # is indeed in the FAQs...
Last edited by Tavis426; 11/18/04 02:35 AM.
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Originally posted by Tavis426:
Originally posted by Big Jim:
You reminded me of a High School auto shop thing. I was assigned to do a tune up on a car belonging to one of the women teachers. I did and confirmed that all the settings were correct. Point gap, dwell, timing, idle mixture and idle speed, etc. Road tested car with shop instructor and all seemed well.
The teacher returned about a week later saying that her fuel milage was very low. I went back through my work to see what went wrong. This was, after all, a "come back" and I was still just a student, not a "real" mechanic. I found the plugs lightly fouled with black soot. I cleaned the plugs and carefully disassembled the carb for inspection. Finding nothing wrong, I put everything back together and road tested the car. Pulled a plug for inspection and it was burning correctly. Shop instructor road tested the car and released it to the teacher.
She returned a few days later and said it was no better, perhaps even a little worse. Before going any further, the shop instructor asked if they could go on a road test, with her driving. She said yes. As they got into the car, she pulled the choke handle most of the way out and hung her purse on it.
Maybe you need to be old enough to remember manual chokes to really understand this.
That is hilarious. I'm 29 and I remember manual chokes, I had one on my '85 RX-7. I'm not sure it was stock, though.
By the way, I bought the cupholder mod from my nearby Ford stealership, and I can drive spiritedly with anything from a skinny Red Bull can to a super size McD's drink in there (as long as it has at least a couple gulps out of it.) I thought the part # was in the FAQs.
Edit: the part # is indeed in the FAQs...
I'm 20, not sure if they had stock manual chokes back in 1984, but my parents used to own 60's chevy trucks with manual chokes... so I actually know how to use one  (isn't that amazing!)
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a damn purse hanger aka garbage bag holder???? couldn;t Ford come up w/ somethin better to spend $ on and give us an actually decent mod??? oh well ill eventually find a GOOD use for it.
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So has anyone actually come up with a solution that doesn't involve the updated cupholder ? I don't mind modding the drivers side, but I need the passengers side to hold something other than my cell's charger. I carpool and it sucks that I have to tell the guy not to use what "seems" like a perfectly good cupholder.
P.S. Yay !!! I'm not a newbie anymore !
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