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Idea for another repair method
Hey guys,
I’m new here & new to the BMW world, fell in love with a mates M3 so decided to give a BMW a go as my next car, got my hands on an 07 335i e92, gorgeous car, finding a lot I love about it, however over my month of ownership I’ve found plenty of things I’m going to need to fix, the fix I just did was on the cup holder, let’s just say I was less then elegant, did this method, not very well clearly, didn’t really want to fork out close to $300 AUD for a new part that will probably just have the same thing happen to it in the future, defiantly a major design flaw, my cup holder now functions, closes & ejects (albeit when I eject it only comes out around 10-15% of the way) got me thinking there has to be a better way that’s more elegant, functional & easier been spitballing for about half an hour & started thinking maybe something along the lines of a very small brake line style retention c-clip on the unmolested parts, would basically be the same process but no bending, just clipping the spring back into the hole then putting the clip on to retain it, I would feel a lot better if I hadn’t broken anything in the repair & managed to get it functioning properly, I believe a solution like this may have worked, after some searching I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for parts wise, but I’m considering contacting a manufacturer to do a run of custom parts possibly.
Just wanted to get thoughts from other people, do you think this would be a viable solution ? Or just leave well enough alone ? Anyone else have any similar ideas ? Look forward to hearing people’s thoughts
Hopefully the attachments worked, apologies in any hiccups with the post, been a long time since I’ve posted anything anywhere 😂
Regards
Josh
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