No holes Satnav/phone mounting

[seldo]

I hate drilling holes in my car so I didn't want a permanent mount on the dash or console and also wanted it to be easy to whip it out for security.
After much umming and aahhring I kept coming back to the cup-holders since I never use them because I have a no food/drink policy in my car, and I came up with the following Bunnings' special.

I bought a short bit of 70mm PVC pipe and a blind cap for the end of it. (The suction cap won't adhere to the blind cap by itself so you have to stick-on the mounting disc that the sat/nav comes with). I then cut the pipe to length to suit the height I wanted (72mm) and, using my bench belt-sander, buffed down the outer circumference of the blind cap a fraction so that it was a snug fit inside the rim of the cup-holder (it didn't quite fit into the top rim of the cuppie, and if you leave it above it, it slops around a little).
Final step is to cut a couple of notches in the bottom lip of the pipe so that they fit snugly over the arm of the cuppie. I originally gave it a quick coat of black satin, but since this one is Mk111 I haven't got around to it.

It works quite well, although some may find it's a bit sloppy laterally, it's as good as you can get, given the natural slop/flex in the cuppie. You could improve that by packing the slot where the cuppie arm comes out of the dash, but if you do that it may cause problems if you want to fold-away the cuppie at any stage. I wanted it to be able to be removed in a couple of seconds if need be.
But I'm happy with it and it's worked well for almost 2 years now.
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[C4B]

Seldo, you do realise that suction cup thing that comes with the satnav will actually adhere to that big see through piece of glass that you look through when you drive..... :yep:

Nah, in all seriousness, very well thought out piece of kit. I especially like how you keyed the bottom of it so it wouldn't spin around during driving.

For mark XXXVII see if you can get hold of a ball bearing the same size as the ball on the end of the suction cup contraption and then make one up that doesn't even use the suction cup.

[seldo]

Seldo, you do realise that suction cup thing that comes with the satnav will actually adhere to that big see through piece of glass that you look through when you drive..... :yep:
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For mark XXXVII see if you can get hold of a ball bearing the same size as the ball on the end of the suction cup contraption and then make one up that doesn't even use the suction cup.:doh: .....Nah Geoff - I hate to see stuff stuck to the screen.

But that's not a bad idea about getting rid of the suction doovey altogether.....*goes to car get doovey to have a play with...*
If I get it sorted I'll pay royalties...;)

[C4B]

If you can find the right size ball, drop me a line and I'll weld a bit of round bar on to it so you can set it into the base (I reckon set it into some epoxy to add weight).