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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I'm not a huge fan of those ones because it requires putting something extra onto the phone unless it's a MagSafe mount, which my preferred phone case doesn't allow for anyway.
I use phone mounts that fit into the CD player tray (since who the hell uses that anymore?) and uses a spring-mounted system to hold the phone in place... not a gravity-based one, but one that applies clamping force to the phone until you press a button to release the device.
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Absolutely agree, except the point is not to use it as a magnetic phone holder. I use it as a magnetic clamp for storing things that needs to be displayed on a dash. Like a car dash grippy pad, but more useful than the pad for things like the park pass or random parking payment stubs for getting out of the parkade and whatnot.
Like, the round part of the ball bearing with the magnet is great for things I'd normally hang over the rear view mirror, but then when it's there, there might be a bigger blockier thing in my view. The magnetic part, I'll put a nickel or dime on it and use it to pinch those parking slips to exit the parkade vs fumbling around with other places to put it if the CD tray slot isn't a nice convenient location/it's windy and with the window open, stray things can blow away.
I've even considered gluing a dime on the bottom of a small toy figurine to display on that magnetic mount. Would make it relatively easy to just keep swapping to a new figurine.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
What do you use for an Apple CarPlay upgrade? I had a unit installed on an older vehicle and found it a bit annoying. Weirdly slow and didn’t like the interface when it wasn’t connected. I think it was a decent brand, Sony or whatever, but didn’t do it for me.
I’m now in a similar situation where my daily is new enough to have a good screen but doesn’t have CarPlay and I’m waffling on the upgrade idea.
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Not this one, but something like this replacement with wireless carplay/Android auto?
https://www.amazon.ca/Android-Single...DXFBPH5M&psc=1
Honestly, anything other than OEM and the interface without the Carplay/Android auto will kinda look dumb. TBH, I think many OEM interfaces kinda look really unpolished and crappy too.
I mean, one of the other options is not an internal screen, but basically mounting some type of non internal smart screen on an arm or bracket over the existing screen. That way it takes the same location, but you can move it out of the way if you need to do anything on the OEM system. Like some type of articulating tablet mount done nicely/not blocking the camera.