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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 02:01 PM
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Good solution for the phone mount Mercedes C class W205.
I want to share it because it is simple and it is clamped in position, without drilling or gluing to car parts.

1. I bought on Ebay
Gravity Automatic Locking Car Phone Holder for iPhone 7 6 Plus Samsung S8 Huawei
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gravity-Auto...72.m2749.l2648

2. The spring clip were removed from the back of the holder (by removing the black rubber, and unscrew two small screws)

3. I Cut a black plastic spoon handle, and then fixed rubber sheet with double side tape.

4. The spoon handle is clamped between back of the screen ans the dashboard (at the right end). At the left end it lays on the clock housing (again with rubber protection).

5. The phone holder is fixed to the spoon handle by two nylon cable ties (I drilled two holes in the holder's fixation part) and some rubber between.

6. The results are on the pictures
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 03:36 PM
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Of all the kitchen-implement based phone mounts this one definitely has the biggest spoon. 😉
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 03:45 PM
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Genius! Now make sure the missus doesn't know what you did with her spoon...

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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 05:01 PM
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Doesn't look like it will fit those with bigger nav screen.
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 05:17 PM
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Does it come with a cheese burger?
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 09:00 PM
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car already come with navigation, this is a quick way to make your Mercedes looks cheap
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by JG030
Good solution for the phone mount Mercedes C class W205.
I want to share it because it is simple and it is clamped in position, without drilling or gluing to car parts.

1. I bought on Ebay
Gravity Automatic Locking Car Phone Holder for iPhone 7 6 Plus Samsung S8 Huawei
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gravity-Auto...72.m2749.l2648

2. The spring clip were removed from the back of the holder (by removing the black rubber, and unscrew two small screws)

3. I Cut a black plastic spoon handle, and then fixed rubber sheet with double side tape.

4. The spoon handle is clamped between back of the screen ans the dashboard (at the right end). At the left end it lays on the clock housing (again with rubber protection).

5. The phone holder is fixed to the spoon handle by two nylon cable ties (I drilled two holes in the holder's fixation part) and some rubber between.

6. The results are on the pictures
I think I've been blinded.
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Old Aug 17, 2017 | 08:30 AM
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This may only work for iPhone 7 plus users:

I wedge my phone in the large gap in the steering wheel, fits perfectly!

It blocks the view of the dials but not really an issue for me, great when using waze!
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Old Aug 18, 2017 | 02:24 AM
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Originally Posted by netboy
car already come with navigation, this is a quick way to make your Mercedes looks cheap
Cheap look?
Not at all.
You do see the phone holder, but the structure and connections behind are concealed.
(Also, I didn’t glue, or drilled any of the parts in the dashboard, and the whole thing and could be removed without any traces)

Additionally the Garmin navigation uses terribly outdated maps.
(e.g. I just got an update and major highway modifications that was built and completed 18moth ago was not in the recent update.)
So I have to use WAZE and Google maps instead.
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Old Aug 18, 2017 | 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by netboy
car already come with navigation, this is a quick way to make your Mercedes looks cheap
and the oem navigation in our cars is a total piece of absolute ***** compared to google maps on most smartphones.

real time traffic is also a joke. real time my A$$. most of the time data is delayed and not accurate.

google maps or waze traffic is pretty darn accurate.

Also, i can enter a destination on google maps in less than 10 seconds compared to the WTF entering system in the oem navi.

Is not even a comparison, the oem navi is a joke.
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