Is there anyone who knows what the square part of the DA dash mat was designed to hold?? its slightly shorter than a credit card, by slightly longer than a credit card and has vertical rubber embossed lines on the 4 sides for holding something in place!
Pictures my friend! The OEM dash mats are rare enough in itself. Thanks!
It has 2 inserts. One that has a large enough space to hold a pack of cigarettes and the other insert is for a pop up cup holder large enough for a can coke. Its one of the rare jdm parts. I have only seen 3 up for sale in 2 years. There aren’t any USDM dash mats to my knowledge.
Cheers for the replies!!!
I dont actually have a pic, but i do have a badly damaged one, the previous owner of my car decided to mount an oil pressure guage on the dash, so in order to do this he drilled a hole in the dash under the square pocket of the mat and carved a large hole in the mat itself :sick:
What im looking for is something to put into the mat that will fill the square and hide the hideous hole in the poor thing!! I was wondering what the pocket in the mat was for, you say its for a pop up cup holder? like an access part?? but if this is true, then why have cup holders in the armrest? or was there even cup holders in the armrest?? im certain i remember seeing a pic of an armrest that had a bit attached to the inside of the lid that you could fold down that had 2 round cup holders in it?? JDM armrests of course as my car is a DA6!
:dozing:Just scrolled through the rare parts thread and found a pic of the cup holder your talking about, all i have to do now is find one as i could really do with one for the drive to work, its not the easiest driving through town with tea in one hand and a cigarette in the other
The armrest do have pop up cup holders but its hard to find both the usdm armrest and even more the jdm armrest with working cup holders. I have 2 jdm armrest one with a complete cupholder and the other with 1/2 of the cupholder. The spring up portion is missing or broken off which is common. As for the cupholder that goes in the dash mat, its going to be tough finding one. Ive seen one on jdmpartsunlimited.com about a year ago and was going for $100 for both the mat and cupholder. I wish you good luck tracking one down. I would have bought that one I mentioned but the insert for it is the opposite in shape here in the USA.
Oh my… Haha I was so misled. I thought you were reffering to the actual OEM dashboard mat:
When you were actually referring to the RHD Dash Mat insert:
My apologies man, I assumed the wrong thing. Finding the RHD dash mat it pretty rough, you’re better off sourcing it from Japan or the UK, somewhere where XSi’s were plentiful. They were a Honda Access option. The ones with the flip up cup-holder are even more rare. I’ve only seen one in person my whole life and none for sale. Good luck!
Thats the one im after, luckily i live in Ireland where we have a lot of JDM imports but very few DA6’s are left around that i know of, that cupholder from the dashmat probably would have been one of the first things to get thrown out the window as well when they first started getting imported! I have the dashmat but as i said earlier it has a gaping big hole in it and i need something to hide it!
As for that complete dash mat thing wtf?? must have been to stop the dash from getting faded!