Telephone Mounting for $3
02-07-2019, 02:38 PM
#1
Telephone Mounting for $3
This one is silly but I wanted to pass it along.
I live in my car for work-I fight speeding tickets in the NYC area, so there's a lot of driving, about 30k/year. (no lease here) Bluetooth and connectivity is something I'll pay for. I run an apple phone but it doesn't matter for this story.
I plug in the phone, with the very impressive MB iPhone cable...it is just long enough for the phone to rest on the tiny shelf behind the Comand screen. The phone is out of the cup holders and out of the way of the passenger and the wire doesn't cross anything. Perfect !
The only problem is that a hard left turn (not that I'd ever be shooting my well known reference roads) the phone would slide off and end up in the passenger door pocket. Not Good.
A trip to the big box store for some felt pads produced a round one inch pad with sticky on one side. Looking behind the comand screen, there is a lip on the shelf where two assemblies meet. I put the round felt there, just before the lip. Put phone back in slot, making sure it is "caught" by the raised felt pad.
Again shot the reference left turn ramp at speed, er, drove very carefully, and the phone stayed in place.
Best of all, it's out of the way, easy to grab if you need to while not moving, and the phone's antennas are up on the dashboard, not behind a metal door. There is zero damage to the car, and if you lease or sell it, no one will notice.
Hope this helps someone......
I live in my car for work-I fight speeding tickets in the NYC area, so there's a lot of driving, about 30k/year. (no lease here) Bluetooth and connectivity is something I'll pay for. I run an apple phone but it doesn't matter for this story.
I plug in the phone, with the very impressive MB iPhone cable...it is just long enough for the phone to rest on the tiny shelf behind the Comand screen. The phone is out of the cup holders and out of the way of the passenger and the wire doesn't cross anything. Perfect !
The only problem is that a hard left turn (not that I'd ever be shooting my well known reference roads) the phone would slide off and end up in the passenger door pocket. Not Good.
A trip to the big box store for some felt pads produced a round one inch pad with sticky on one side. Looking behind the comand screen, there is a lip on the shelf where two assemblies meet. I put the round felt there, just before the lip. Put phone back in slot, making sure it is "caught" by the raised felt pad.
Again shot the reference left turn ramp at speed, er, drove very carefully, and the phone stayed in place.
Best of all, it's out of the way, easy to grab if you need to while not moving, and the phone's antennas are up on the dashboard, not behind a metal door. There is zero damage to the car, and if you lease or sell it, no one will notice.
Hope this helps someone......
02-07-2019, 07:33 PM
#3
This one is silly but I wanted to pass it along.
I live in my car for work-I fight speeding tickets in the NYC area, so there's a lot of driving, about 30k/year. (no lease here) Bluetooth and connectivity is something I'll pay for. I run an apple phone but it doesn't matter for this story.
I plug in the phone, with the very impressive MB iPhone cable...it is just long enough for the phone to rest on the tiny shelf behind the Comand screen. The phone is out of the cup holders and out of the way of the passenger and the wire doesn't cross anything. Perfect !
The only problem is that a hard left turn (not that I'd ever be shooting my well known reference roads) the phone would slide off and end up in the passenger door pocket. Not Good.
A trip to the big box store for some felt pads produced a round one inch pad with sticky on one side. Looking behind the comand screen, there is a lip on the shelf where two assemblies meet. I put the round felt there, just before the lip. Put phone back in slot, making sure it is "caught" by the raised felt pad.
Again shot the reference left turn ramp at speed, er, drove very carefully, and the phone stayed in place.
Best of all, it's out of the way, easy to grab if you need to while not moving, and the phone's antennas are up on the dashboard, not behind a metal door. There is zero damage to the car, and if you lease or sell it, no one will notice.
Hope this helps someone......
I live in my car for work-I fight speeding tickets in the NYC area, so there's a lot of driving, about 30k/year. (no lease here) Bluetooth and connectivity is something I'll pay for. I run an apple phone but it doesn't matter for this story.
I plug in the phone, with the very impressive MB iPhone cable...it is just long enough for the phone to rest on the tiny shelf behind the Comand screen. The phone is out of the cup holders and out of the way of the passenger and the wire doesn't cross anything. Perfect !
The only problem is that a hard left turn (not that I'd ever be shooting my well known reference roads) the phone would slide off and end up in the passenger door pocket. Not Good.
A trip to the big box store for some felt pads produced a round one inch pad with sticky on one side. Looking behind the comand screen, there is a lip on the shelf where two assemblies meet. I put the round felt there, just before the lip. Put phone back in slot, making sure it is "caught" by the raised felt pad.
Again shot the reference left turn ramp at speed, er, drove very carefully, and the phone stayed in place.
Best of all, it's out of the way, easy to grab if you need to while not moving, and the phone's antennas are up on the dashboard, not behind a metal door. There is zero damage to the car, and if you lease or sell it, no one will notice.
Hope this helps someone......
https://www.mobilezap.com.au/iottie-...-charger-65675
02-08-2019, 03:13 PM
#4
here's the photo. I suppose if you had any sort of rubber bumper or other "foot" for an appliance or computer parts with an adhesive back it would work the same..its just a small enough bump to keep the phone from sliding off.
02-08-2019, 03:42 PM
#5
