Unfortunately discovered my seat heater elements are kaput so that sucks.

My day just got better. Super score on this rare piece. This makes up for the seat heater elements tho

 

Did you pay extra for the mold?

 

I think it is ash or fire extinguisher dust. Pretty sure the truck was on fire at some point because the entire cab was covered in it

 

Where did you find the cubby! Hope you didn't pay the crazy prices we see on ebay. Mine is empty but on a single cab you have to crane your neck to see the gaping hole. Thinking about cutting a piece of plexi for a blank to mount my subwoofer volume switch.

 

I spend an inordinate amount of time looking for these stupid *** parts. I found this one on car-part.com $50 for the whole center console yes please! It looked better in pictures but was trashed when I got there.
Was waiting for them to pull it for me and they said they couldn’t do it call back in the morning and if it’s not done then they’ll give me my money back. Keeping the cubby.

I also pulled all the rubber mats out of it as well so it was definitely worth it.

 

If you have an old broken one you can send me, I can design and 3d print custom fillers to hold whatever guage or switches you want. I did it on project fenrir for the fuel pressure gauge.

 

There is a guy that sells these that are 3D printed on eBay. The cubbies aren't impossible to find but the mats are. I plan on taking some measurements of the mat and replicating them out of TPU. I don't know how to get a good grippy feeling though

Also this is in the rear of the cubby so can't really see the gauges there

 

You could try a textured surface on the print to add grip. or you can print a base plate and put a layer of plastidip over it to get that grippy feel.

 

Plastidip was something I read about. I have yet to print in TPU (mostly print in PLA+) so I am unsure exactly how it feels but I have heard it is not very grippy. I just want a base plate that can bend like rubber slightly.

 

Yeah all the little rubber mats were discontinued for the center consoles a while back. I was able to source an OEM for my truck. It was for the inside buckets. They cut the pocket and mounted some garbage for DVD/TV's in there. I was able to get a good pocket at the junk yard but the mats were always gone.