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Got the chance to finally install my Oversized cupholders from Z Precision yesterday and while there’s a few steps required, it was overall a pretty seamless and easy install so I decided to make an install guide while I was at it! Lol
But first! A picture of the finished product!
Love how it turned out and super happy to have the larger cup holders and to do away with the OEM ones as one of those tabs have already broken off and went in to the center piece of the console so I was happy to get rid of that OEM design and try something new...although I feel like larger cup holders should just be standard in these trucks at this point! Lol
For the install, it took about an hour and only a few tools were required:
#2 Philips screw driver,
Small flat head screw driver
¼” Ratchet and an extension
10mm & 8mm sockets.
Besides this, Z Precision provides the 5 additional screws and brackets needed to bolt the new cupholders in place.
Step 1: So starting out, you will need to empty out the center console and remove the piece of felt at the bottom to expose the (4) 10mm bolts which you will then want to remove. (Pictured below)
Step 2: After this, you will need to pull up on the trim around the shifter just enough to expose the next (3) 8mm bolts that you will now remove. (There are 4 tabs that hold the trim around the shifter but once you get one of the corners popped out, it is pretty easy to gently pop out the other 3 corners.)
Note **You do not need to fully remove this piece, you just need to move it enough to get access to those (3) 8mm bolts (circled in red, pictured below)**
Step 3: Next you will want to move your passenger seat all the way back to get to the small piece of trim that you will pop out using the small flat head screwdriver. This will then expose the next (2) 10mm bolts that you will be to remove. (Pictured below)
Step 4: Once all the bolts are removed, you will want to gently pull on the handle on the end closest to the cup holders to pop it out of place enough that you can gently lift up the center console to gain access to the two wire harnesses. You will need to disconnect these before removing the center console completely and moving on to the next step. (pictured below)
Top Picture: Showing handle popped out.
Bottom Picture: Showing the two harnesses that you will need to disconnect located under the center console.
Step 5: After the center console is removed, you will want to unclip the wire harness from the old cupholder by squeezing the two tabs on the end of the clip. From there, you will use a Philips to remove the 4 screws on the underside of the cupholder (circled in red, pictured below). Once all 4 screws are removed you will then remove the silver trim piece on top of the cupholder by using your flat head screwdriver to pop out the 9 clips all around the underside of the cupholder (examples of the clips are circled in green in the picture below. These clips run all around the underside of the cup holder).
Step 6: Once the trim is fully removed, there will be just one last clip holding the cupholder in place (circled in red in the photo below). You will want to use the flat head to release this clip and remove the old cup holder completely.
Step 7: Now you will begin installing the brackets provided by Z Precision on the back side of the cut out for the cupholder on the center console (pictured below) the two smaller brackets will be placed closest to the center console. (there is a cross shaped side on the bracket that lay on top of the cross shaped posts on this end of the cup holder cut out). Lastly the larger bracket will fit across the bottom of the cupholder cut out. You will use the (4) OEM screws that you removed in Step 5 to secure these brackets in place.
Note **It’s a good idea to leave the 2 screws in the bottom longer bracket a little loose till after the new cupholder in is place in case you need a little wiggle room**
*center console is upside down position in picture below*
Step 8: Now pop in the new Z Precision cupholder (as if you’re dropping it in from the top with the text on the bottom of the cup holder right side up, facing you—it can only fit in one way so if the text is upside down, it will not fully seat). You will then use the 5 screws provided to secure the new cup holder in place and tighten up the two screws in the larger bracket (if you left them loose in the previous step).
(I apologize for the horrible photo! I noticed that 4 of the screws that you will be adding in Step 8 are not visible in the photo I took so I circled the area of where the screw is located)
Step 9: Once the cupholder in place and all the screws are tightened down, you can begin putting everything back together. Drop the center console back in place and make sure to reconnect the two harnesses.
Note: **since there is no bracket to pop the harness back in to, it will be just kind of hanging there**.
From there, you will slide the console back into place, making sure to align the hooks into the slots of the forward part of the console. Once it is in place correctly, it should sit flush, and the bolt holes should align where you removed the (3) 8mm bolts in Step 2. You can then pop the handle back into place that you popped out in Step 4. At this point, you can begin putting all the bolts back in place and tightening them down—the (4) 10mm bolts inside of the center console (reference Step 1), the (3) 8mm bolts under the shifter trim (reference Step 2), and the (2) 10mm bolts securing the side of the handle (reference Step 5). Once all the bolts are back in place you can then pop the trim cover back in place from Step 5, put the felt piece back into your center console and snap the shifter trim back in place and you are officially done and ready for big cups!
I tried to explain this as well as I could and also could only add a total of 10 pictures for reference so I will leave the YouTube video provided by Z Precision below just in case!
But first! A picture of the finished product!
Love how it turned out and super happy to have the larger cup holders and to do away with the OEM ones as one of those tabs have already broken off and went in to the center piece of the console so I was happy to get rid of that OEM design and try something new...although I feel like larger cup holders should just be standard in these trucks at this point! Lol
For the install, it took about an hour and only a few tools were required:
#2 Philips screw driver,
Small flat head screw driver
¼” Ratchet and an extension
10mm & 8mm sockets.
Besides this, Z Precision provides the 5 additional screws and brackets needed to bolt the new cupholders in place.
Step 1: So starting out, you will need to empty out the center console and remove the piece of felt at the bottom to expose the (4) 10mm bolts which you will then want to remove. (Pictured below)
Step 2: After this, you will need to pull up on the trim around the shifter just enough to expose the next (3) 8mm bolts that you will now remove. (There are 4 tabs that hold the trim around the shifter but once you get one of the corners popped out, it is pretty easy to gently pop out the other 3 corners.)
Note **You do not need to fully remove this piece, you just need to move it enough to get access to those (3) 8mm bolts (circled in red, pictured below)**
Step 3: Next you will want to move your passenger seat all the way back to get to the small piece of trim that you will pop out using the small flat head screwdriver. This will then expose the next (2) 10mm bolts that you will be to remove. (Pictured below)
Step 4: Once all the bolts are removed, you will want to gently pull on the handle on the end closest to the cup holders to pop it out of place enough that you can gently lift up the center console to gain access to the two wire harnesses. You will need to disconnect these before removing the center console completely and moving on to the next step. (pictured below)
Top Picture: Showing handle popped out.
Bottom Picture: Showing the two harnesses that you will need to disconnect located under the center console.
Step 5: After the center console is removed, you will want to unclip the wire harness from the old cupholder by squeezing the two tabs on the end of the clip. From there, you will use a Philips to remove the 4 screws on the underside of the cupholder (circled in red, pictured below). Once all 4 screws are removed you will then remove the silver trim piece on top of the cupholder by using your flat head screwdriver to pop out the 9 clips all around the underside of the cupholder (examples of the clips are circled in green in the picture below. These clips run all around the underside of the cup holder).
Step 6: Once the trim is fully removed, there will be just one last clip holding the cupholder in place (circled in red in the photo below). You will want to use the flat head to release this clip and remove the old cup holder completely.
Step 7: Now you will begin installing the brackets provided by Z Precision on the back side of the cut out for the cupholder on the center console (pictured below) the two smaller brackets will be placed closest to the center console. (there is a cross shaped side on the bracket that lay on top of the cross shaped posts on this end of the cup holder cut out). Lastly the larger bracket will fit across the bottom of the cupholder cut out. You will use the (4) OEM screws that you removed in Step 5 to secure these brackets in place.
Note **It’s a good idea to leave the 2 screws in the bottom longer bracket a little loose till after the new cupholder in is place in case you need a little wiggle room**
*center console is upside down position in picture below*
Step 8: Now pop in the new Z Precision cupholder (as if you’re dropping it in from the top with the text on the bottom of the cup holder right side up, facing you—it can only fit in one way so if the text is upside down, it will not fully seat). You will then use the 5 screws provided to secure the new cup holder in place and tighten up the two screws in the larger bracket (if you left them loose in the previous step).
(I apologize for the horrible photo! I noticed that 4 of the screws that you will be adding in Step 8 are not visible in the photo I took so I circled the area of where the screw is located)Step 9: Once the cupholder in place and all the screws are tightened down, you can begin putting everything back together. Drop the center console back in place and make sure to reconnect the two harnesses.
Note: **since there is no bracket to pop the harness back in to, it will be just kind of hanging there**.
From there, you will slide the console back into place, making sure to align the hooks into the slots of the forward part of the console. Once it is in place correctly, it should sit flush, and the bolt holes should align where you removed the (3) 8mm bolts in Step 2. You can then pop the handle back into place that you popped out in Step 4. At this point, you can begin putting all the bolts back in place and tightening them down—the (4) 10mm bolts inside of the center console (reference Step 1), the (3) 8mm bolts under the shifter trim (reference Step 2), and the (2) 10mm bolts securing the side of the handle (reference Step 5). Once all the bolts are back in place you can then pop the trim cover back in place from Step 5, put the felt piece back into your center console and snap the shifter trim back in place and you are officially done and ready for big cups!
I tried to explain this as well as I could and also could only add a total of 10 pictures for reference so I will leave the YouTube video provided by Z Precision below just in case!
