Anyone ever mod their Sonata with a new dash kit?
 

I broke the plastic cup holder on my 2002 Sonata and to fix it my dealer
quoted me nearly $250. Seems outrageous for a piece of plastic that
probably cost $10 to make. There's a place that makes very slick looking
dash kits, anyone tried one of them? It would be from this place:
http://www.wooddash.com/item/HYUNDAI...TA_2002_2005_2

Cheers

- Pavlov

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Re: Anyone ever mod their Sonata with a new dash kit?
 

why cant u get it covered under warranty??
"Pavlov" <x@x.x> wrote in message
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>I broke the plastic cup holder on my 2002 Sonata and to fix it my dealer
> quoted me nearly $250. Seems outrageous for a piece of plastic that
> probably cost $10 to make. There's a place that makes very slick looking
> dash kits, anyone tried one of them? It would be from this place:
> http://www.wooddash.com/item/HYUNDAI...TA_2002_2005_2
>
> Cheers
>
> - Pavlov
>
> Check out my pics!
> http://www.neiu.edu/~akkoziol

Re: Anyone ever mod their Sonata with a new dash kit?
 

These look like stick-on veneers. Caveat emptor.

Re: Anyone ever mod their Sonata with a new dash kit?
 

"Pavlov" <x@x.x> wrote in message
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| I broke the plastic cup holder on my 2002 Sonata and to fix it
my dealer
| quoted me nearly $250. Seems outrageous for a piece of plastic
that
| probably cost $10 to make.

Dunno. I've got a 2000 Sonata. My cupholders are a particularly
dumb design in an even dumber center console -- anything I want
to put into the cupholders seems to be the wrong size; and if two
people, let's say, get identical sawdust shakes, only one will
fit -- the other one won't. With the cupholder door closed, the
slippery, sloped, oh-so-deco contoured surface makes anything
placed on it it slide off. The swing-open compartments are too
low and too far back to support my elbow.

So if your console is as good as mine, why not get out that
hacksaw, mix up some epoxy, and go to it!

Richard

Re: Anyone ever mod their Sonata with a new dash kit?
 

>why cant u get it covered under warranty??

Because it didn't break by itself. I had placed a bushed aluminum cup
in there and the grip handle pushed against it inadvertently cracking
it. It's so paper thin I am not surprised it cracked.

- Pavlov

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Re: Anyone ever mod their Sonata with a new dash kit?
 

>Dunno. I've got a 2000 Sonata. My cupholders are a particularly
>dumb design in an even dumber center console -- anything I want
>to put into the cupholders seems to be the wrong size; and if two
>people, let's say, get identical sawdust shakes, only one will
>fit -- the other one won't. With the cupholder door closed, the
>slippery, sloped, oh-so-deco contoured surface makes anything
>placed on it it slide off. The swing-open compartments are too
>low and too far back to support my elbow.

That's kind of the problem with modern cars. All the molded plastic is
very sensitive and there's no one-size-fits-all on the cup holders. My
2002 Sonata also has the one big one small layout. Two of the same
would have been just fine. It still blows my mind that the replacement
plastic costs as much as it does.

>So if your console is as good as mine, why not get out that
>hacksaw, mix up some epoxy, and go to it!

Ha, don't tempt me. It'll do it up like a Mad Max mobile or something!
Extreme Hyundai makeover. Cheers.

- Pavlov

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