Mazda5 Tomtom 930

[gerryc]

Tomtom 930 and its baseball cap.

I went for the 'minimalist' approach. easy mount easy
off.

 

[bednorem]

That really adds a sophisticated touch to your car. Sure to impress your passengers! Seriously, though, a very creative and effective solution; not to mention cheap.

 

[gerryc]

MAZDA5 Tomtom 930 (Update)

I thought I'd share this prototype mounting idea.

Materials:
1. some decent double sided mounting tape.

2. Strong 'earth magnets'. Got some from princes auto
--- If you have an old PC disk drive, you can open it
and you'll find really strong magnets inside.

3. metal plates (I cut a piece of metallic ruler).

Steps:
-- stick magnets with doublesided tape to the mount location,
-- stick metal plate with dblsded tape to back of tomtom.

-- if needing to angle tomtom towards driver, additional
layers of magnet can be added to either side.

Fortunately the compass in the tomtom is non magnetic.

 

[Pedro2NR]

very nice!!!
How's the internal speaker working? Is it still loud enough?

 

[gerryc]

Audio is ok. there is enough gap offered by the magnets. Or I can always add additional layer of magnets.

 

[Robm]

looks pretty slick

 

[equlizer]

The magnets dont interfere with any internals?

 

[equlizer]

well i just tried the magnet thing and aside from using crazy glue to attach the magnets to the gps/dashboard, this is a no go. The magnets are too strong and pull away from the tape. If i use lesser magnets, the gps slides off the dash

Great idea though but not sure how to mount the magnets to the gps/dash

 

[gerryc]

I had same problem. I don't want to use crazy glue.

I used a piece of metallic ruler cut to size and double-sided-taped it to the desired location on the dash. Then another 'metal' surface mounted on the tomtom. Magnets can now attach to metal surface, and tomtom to the magnets.. So far the mounting is still holding on. But if it comes off in time, I have spare mounting tape in reserve.

The magnets are not glued to the metal. It can move to receive
the 930 or the tomtom one.

It needs improvement.. maybe paint the metal surface black..
or I can get one of those 'no smoking sign' metalic surfaces..
and use it. I can easily move the gps to another location in
the dash..