I will post pictures of my tomtom hardwired and flush mounted to the silver panel to the left of the steering wheel - great location, super clean and unless you get right up to the car you won't see it in there (the temptation to steal a $199 nav unit is beyond me, but you gotta get yo' meth somehow, I suppose)
IMPORTANT: Some of these nav units aren't 12v, so if you hardwire them by removing the cigarette lighter plug, you might smoke them. I learned that the hard way. Fortunately it was replaced under warranty. If you are going to hardwire them, you should leave the cig plug and just mount it into an add a socket, tape it up so it won't ground out, then hardwire the add a socket.
IMPORTANT: Some of these nav units aren't 12v, so if you hardwire them by removing the cigarette lighter plug, you might smoke them. I learned that the hard way. Fortunately it was replaced under warranty. If you are going to hardwire them, you should leave the cig plug and just mount it into an add a socket, tape it up so it won't ground out, then hardwire the add a socket.
Excellent point. I checked the output with a multimeter and took a peek inside the cig plug and found nothing except solder connections, so I hardwired it to 12V. Your suggestion is the proper approach for someone who wants to play it safe.
I mounted my Nuvi 250W on the silver blank left of the steering wheel using the provided suction cup. It recieves signal fine but does reflect the image onto the driver side window, turning it to always use "night mode" helps this some, and can interfere with your view of the driver side view mirror at night escpecially with tinted windows. I ran the power chord from the outlet to towards the pedals and up into the dash then over to a hole above the fuse panel and up to the GPS. Some wiring is visible but it isn't in the way of anything that might be a safety issue.
Ok, here are the pictures finally. It is admittedly not ideal for viewing, but not bad and since I use the voice prompts mostly anyways, it works great. Showed 16 homes yesterday and TomTom guided me to everyone just perfectly - its "Itinerary" feature works really well. Have had a bunch of more expensive nav units and this cheap little TomTom One is my fav. Ok, enough of the plug, here are the pics:
I have an older Garmin Street Pilot III and mounted on the driver's side dash just next to the pillar and the grab handle. It works great since its easy to see and easy to operate.
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Ok, here are the pictures finally. It is admittedly not ideal for viewing, but not bad and since I use the voice prompts mostly anyways, it works great. Showed 16 homes yesterday and TomTom guided me to everyone just perfectly - its "Itinerary" feature works really well. Have had a bunch of more expensive nav units and this cheap little TomTom One is my fav. Ok, enough of the plug, here are the pics:
I thought you said it was flush-mounted? That is surface-mounted.
This is mine. Got this mount from Proclipusa.com, removed the suction cup from the window mount and attached it to the proclip mount w a couple bolts through holes I drilled in both. works great, dont have to look away from the road to see, and I ran the wires through the "hidden dash compartment" above the steering wheel. the Proclip mount attaches at the top of the air vent and then just behind the round part at the top of the dash.
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Those look very nice.. I like the way you select the mounts by device and vehicle. Ron
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This is mine. Got this mount from Proclipusa.com, removed the suction cup from the window mount and attached it to the proclip mount w a couple bolts through holes I drilled in both. works great, dont have to look away from the road to see, and I ran the wires through the "hidden dash compartment" above the steering wheel. the Proclip mount attaches at the top of the air vent and then just behind the round part at the top of the dash.
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I thought you said it was flush-mounted? That is surface-mounted.
I am flattered that any one was paying such close attention, lol. I guess I called it flush mounted because the bracket is flush mounted as opposed to on any type of arm. I know what you are thinking, I guess I would have called that "recessed" mounted, but at any rate I could have done that but wouldn't cut up the panel that bad for a portable GPS.
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