I am looking for recommendations for a good quality replacement for the stock center console in my 1993 YJ. I’ve seen some reviews of aftermarket options that say they are tight fits and get chewed up from seat belt plastic sleeves and seats. I’m hoping to find so that offers a decent measure of security, at least from a less determined thief as well as good cup holders.
1993 Center Console Replacement
- Thread starter rbbremer
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zebraranger
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Not a good pic, but I also have one of the Tuffy's. Its heavy duty steel with a key lock and fits perfectly between the seats.
ACKyj
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Agreed with above. Save your pennies and get a Tuffy. I'm not as concerned about security, they can have whatever is in there on a day to day. So I use a 20mm ammo can in the center console of my CJ5. I, never got around to putting in a cupholder.
marcb
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I added an ammo cam. Self tapping screws, after checking underneath that I would not hit anything.
SquareFace
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This looks nice and high. Did you do anything to raise it from the original position?
That looks like original position to me. Here is a pic of mine from years ago with stock seats. I always found the armrest to be at a mostly decent height.
SquareFace
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Awesome. Looks like you have plenty of room for the shifter. Did you have to adjust its location for the cupholders and shifters? Or did it bolt right where it was supposed to?
Also. What seats do you have now?
I'm not the guy you quoted originally....looks like he has Corbeau seats. I have stock seats, which are shown in the photo I just posted, and I still have them but they are covered with Bestop seat covers now.
Console mostly sits where it's supposed to, but it's a bit of a pain to get it centered on the floor hump and get the bolts drilled evenly. Because the console sits on a bracket that raises it up in the rear, it's also a bit diffcult to transfer the holes from the console off the floor down to the appropriate location on the floor.
I set the console in place, marked the front bolt and drilled it, then I dropped the rear two bolts in their holes and let them land on the floor. Then I colored the floor with sharpies where the bolts hit the floor. Then I drilled there.
Most cups clear the shifter fine. I keep the cup holder on the lowest height (there are 3 heights depending on which sets of holes you bolt it to). The shifter would hit cups when I had a B&M short throw shifter. With stock, it's no issue. The console in mine is mounted to where the back of it just barely sticks out past the backs of the seats, with the seats slid all the way back.
I can grab some more photos when I get home this evening.
SquareFace
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Ok that’s very helpful. Trying to figure out what I’m getting myself into. Thanks again.