Ashtray Options

[RBBailey]

I want to create a hard point for mounting a phone mount to the spot where the ashtray is currently sitting.

Drilling into the ash tray itself won't work, there will be too much torque once the mount and phone are hanging on it.

Any ideas about how this might be done without damaging/modifying the dash top itself?

 

[Uncle Douglas]

there is usualy a steel insert the ash tray clicks into. This bracket is connected to the upper dash pad by a single screw on either side. If you made a bracket that fit snugly into the opening in the upper pad and then secured it on either side with a screw to lock it into position that should be a great base for a mount. This is how the Mud UK "dash pods" attach to the upper dash.

 

[Jeff B]

Like Doug said, there is solid mounting available there. I just put a Mud Pod in the ashtray spot so I can run 2 or 3 auxiliary temp gauges...

A dash dock might also be an option.

https://www.seriesdefender.com/interior/defender-dash-dock-ram-mount.html



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[rocky]

Have you ruled this out? https://www.seriesdefender.com/interior/defender-dash-dock-ram-mount.html

 

[RBBailey]

I looked at one of the Series Defender cross bar dash things yesterday, and it seems pretty good, but I don't think I'll ever have need of mounting multiple items across the whole cab like that is designed to allow.

I'll check out the Mud UK option, and I may try to fab my own, even temporarily.

 

[Napalm00]

I have this:
http://www.directcarparts.co.uk/car...agnetic-mount-for-smart-phones-and-more-p2202

Got it at Walmart, sticks right to the front edge of the upper dash pad. My phone with the plate on it hasn't fallen off even when doing 40 on washboard roads. Cheap and soild as a rock

 

[rlynch356]

You could make a sandwich style plate to mount the phone holder to.
Just a though.

 

[jafir]

Maybe attach the phone mount to the mudstuff coin holder that replaces the ashtray?

http://www.mudstuff.co.uk/coin-holder.html

 

[rocky]

I use a Ram mount for GPS/Phone set up suction cupped to windshield. Works fine even off road.

 

[rlynch356]

I use a Ram mount for GPS/Phone set up suction cupped to windshield. Works fine even off road.

I'd just do this if i didn't need to hold a tablet too - the RAM Suction Cup X-Grip works incredibly well.

The Mud stuff coin tray is just plastic and a V shape at the bottom - and sucks for trying to just "place" a phone in it... works only till the first turn

 

[Uncle Douglas]

The Mud stuff coin tray is just plastic and a V shape at the bottom - and sucks for trying to just "place" a phone in it... works only till the first turn

Wasnt suggesting a MUD Stuff product, was saying fabricating something similar to the bracket their dash pods utilze would be rock solid. Will take a picture of the bracket that gets hidden under the pod so you can see what I'm refering to.

 

[jafir]

I was suggesting a mudstuff product, but I wasn't suggesting just sitting the phone in it. I was suggesting using it to attach an actual phone mount.

My setup is a little easier, I have the MOD light switch panel, so I've attached a "niteize steelie" to the panel and I just slap my phone onto that.