GPS Dashboard Mount

[goatherder]

Hi,

I don't have the luxury of Satnav in my car (although I hear that its pretty poor anyway!) and I haven't had to use my portable Garmin as yet. However I'm off to France at the end of the month so will need to take the Garmin with me - I'm not keen on sticking it to the screen due to visibility and the chance that it may fall off and hit something!

Anyone used a dashboard mount in their Mas? although I'm a little nervous about sticking something to the dashboard!

Any recommendations?

GH

 

[conaero]

I stick my TomTom 730GO to the screen and hard wired the 12v lead to a female 12v socket in my glove box, but I did get this with the unit also, and no reason why I cant use that. You would have to Scotch pad it to the dash, so it is semi permanent:

You could then use one of these to wiring it to the concealed 12v socket:

I use this one:

Funnily enough we were discussing this at the Malt Shovel last week, and all suction cups fall off the coupes windscreen, we all decided that it is due to the curvature of the glass.

To hard wire it, I removed the dash top (10min job) and threaded the cable to the glove box, then back up through the central air vent so it pokes out the back. You then have to buy a 12v female socket and wire that to the light in the glove box so it goes on and off with the ignition:

 

[GhostyDog]

Have a word with these guys

http://www.dsldevelopments.com

 

[GDL]

Very useful link - Thank you

Gordon

 

[safrane]

Stuck mine the the plastic screen next to the speedo on my trip

 

[Parisien]

Try this.......

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_703695_langId_-1_categoryId_165679

P

 

[goatherder]

thanks all some good links - will try a few things this weekend..

Although I'm not as confident as you Conaero! If I took the dash top off I'd never get it back on!

 

[Parisien]

"Funnily enough we were discussing this at the Malt Shovel last week, and all suction cups fall off the coupes windscreen, we all decided that it is due to the curvature of the glass."

If glass has been cleaned with some cleaners......it won't let suction type devices stick to them!

P

 

[safrane]

I am surprised that no one has made a mounting point similar to a USB point on the top of dash, with a number of desk top adapters that suite most GPS units so you can just clip it in and charge on the move too. That way you would have factory sat nav for just a couple of hundred pounds and could up grade with time and only have to change the mount.

 

[GDL]

Why would they possibly do that?????

When they can charge you over a thousand quid (or more) for a factory fit sat nav that you then have to pay through the nose for updates.



Cheers

Gordon