Hello,

I have a 93 RX-7. On my drivers side inside door pull cup, the antistatic pad has come loose. So basically I have a hole there now. Should I reattach with superglue or something else? Is there another fix that I am not thinking of?

Thanks,
Drew

 

Superglue won't work, maybe 2 part epoxy. I used UV cure glue, it worked great.

 

New door cups from Ray don't have the hole in them.

Seems like they are like $25 each new.

Feels more solid without the hole, not sure how important the anti-static idea was.

 

My JDM FD doesn't have these and I've never had any issues with static. On my UK FD which had them I just stuck them permanently in place with plast-aid.

 

Where do you get UV cure glue?

 

New ones are much pricier, I think like $80 or some crap.

I fixed a friend's 93 pull cup this weekend. Here's my procedure -

First, get a soldering iron. I have this -

Shop Weller Electric 25-Watt Soldering Iron Kit at Lowes.com

Yes, got it at Lowes, it's actually a pretty good soldering iron. It comes with different tips, I screwed on the one that looks like a flathead screwdriver.

I got a spare bit of interior plastic - it was a center speaker cover, of which I have many and they aren't worth much.

Now, take the pad and put it in place. Where the stock attachment points were, the little round spots, melt them with the soldering iron and fuse it into the plastic of the pull cup. Kind of spread it out, make sure the plastic on the cup side melts some so they fuse together nicely.

To reinforce it, I cut off a few small pieces of plastic from the center speaker cover and melted that in place. You may need to cut some of the rubber coating that sticks up off, that won't fuse, you need plastic on plastic.

It was much easier than I would have thought and worked great. Haven't used the cup a whole bunch but it seems solid now.

Dale

 

Right, I checked my invoice and the new ones were $59 each from Ray.

 

I would really like to try to fix mine first. Is there any certain type of glue or epoxy I should try? I know it would have to be pretty strong.

 

^Read what I said about doing some plastic welding. That's going to be far stronger than glue.

Dale

 

Dale is right, the best method for fixing this type of thing is plastic welding it back together. Just make sure you do as he says and get some extra plastic bits from another piece of interior trim that is the SAME TYPE of plastic. Also, I've found that using the iron tip to "mix up" the melted plastic on the repair spot works best. You don't want to simply melt on a blob of plastic to the surface. You need to have some penetration, just like with metal welding

 

I'm bringing this one back from the dead.. I just bought a set of chromed door pull cups out of a 2001 FD and they dont have the static pads in them, they do not have anything.

My 1992 car has the static pads in the cups (and in perfect condition too, never repaired!)

Is the static pad thing really required? Does it do anything of note?

I am going to pull out my good 1992 cups with the static pads, and store them away and use the chrome cups, if there's no difference?

 

I always wondered what that part was for. Now I know.

 

The new ones you get from Ray do Not have them either.

 

seems like its a neat idea, the static pads, but its a 1993 (92, or V1 in the rest of the world) thing, the 94's don't have em

 

Much worry about nothing.
Show some initiative, glue the bloody thing back on.


Maybe glue on some glitter.

 

My '94 has them.

The driver's side pad popped off and I glued it back together with 2-part epoxy. That lasted about a year. I glued it again earlier this spring, taking greater care this time. It has held so far. If it comes off again I'll try welding it.