this spring came out the back of my cup holder when i was closing it.is this thing suppose to be on the back of the cup holder or is it just something that the owner before me lost back there?heres a pic of it.

 

Looks like the spring for a clothes pin....... does your cupholder still do what it's supposed to?

 

same thing happened to me. I have not been able to get it back on.

 

seems to be ok but since it did it to you to it has to be some sort of part thats on the back of the cup holder i cant figure out where it goes.ya it does look like a clothes pin spring lol but i dont think it is.

 

The thing is, I don't even know which way it goes in. I remember it came off because the cupholder was pressed down past where it should go and the spring flew out. So, you would probably have to push it down to get it back in.

CUpholder still works the same, it just does not have the spring to dampen the cupholder.

As long as you don;t have anything in the cupholder when you are rock crawling, you won;t have any problems. Just keep it in the glove box until you want to spend a few hours trying to figure out how it goes in then put it back in.

 

Mine came out too lol, but cup holder is since gone anyway.. mounted another radio there

 

lol ok but where on the back of the cup holder does the spring go?guess ill have to take the cup holder apart to see ugh.i might just leave it be.the cup holders down for now so i can put a cup of coffeee or whatever on it..you happen to have a pic of where that thing goes?

 

oh hell you have a 2000 so you dont have the in dash cup holder. on the 2002 it goes in the back you will see a little stub it goes on.. no real need for it that ive noticed...

 

you don't need the spring. It will close without the spring.

 

It does go to the cup holder, and the whole unit needs to be removed to reinstall it. And if it fell out, I'm betting the tabs that hold it in are broken anyway.