Materials:
sandpaper (grinder preferred)
Ford/Mazda/Mercury DIN radio removal tool
tow hitch or similar heavy piece of metal
Steps:
1) Find a 2nd gen Ford Taurus, years 1992-1995
2) Using the Ford DIN removal tool, remove the stock coin and cup holder from the car
3) Remove the empty plastic holder, if its there
4) Using the grinder carefully grind away 1 or 2 mm from the sides of the holder, you can round the corners if you wish
5) Compare the holder to the empty space in your dash, if it doesn't fit repeat step 3 until it does. Its helpful to reverse the holder so that the front faces in, that way it isn't a pain to remove completely every time you need to correct it
6) I used the tow hitch, but I'm sure something else will work, looking into the now completely empty whole you will see a support bar running straight down. Using the tow hitch, place a few good hits to it. You need to do this because the bar is not parallel to the face, and is forward a few mm more than it needs to be. This doesn't seem to affect the stability, and if you don't do this the new holder won't sit flush with the center piece.
Support bar:
Using the tow hitch:
7) Slide the holder into place. You can make this easier if you grind off a little bit from the bottom of the holder. Either way, pop open the cup holder part and place one of the open spots over the shift knob. Once this is completed slide the entire holder into place. It may take a little bit of jiggling, but don't force it. If you need to you can "squeeze" the bottom of the holder to make it slide into place easier.
8) Step back and take a look at it. If it isn't flush with the center piece, remove it and repeats steps 6 and 7.
Also, the coin holder will work no problem, but unless your shifter is shorter than stock, whether through a short shifter, or a shorter shift knob, the cup holder will still come out and work, but you won't be able to shift into 1, 3, or 5 without it hitting the cup holder. Its only about 1/2 inch too tall, so if you are feeling lazy autozone sells a $10 shift knob that you can modify for it to fit.
