Hi Folks,

I was just wondering if there was a bracket or fitting that you could put in the top dashboard box that would hold a Garmin Satnav.

I tried out my satnav in the top box and it looks great there. Had to prop it up a bit but it stayed in place and was very easy to use in this position.

It keeps the windscreen clear and you just close the box when you want to hide the SatNav or when you are getting out.

I have included an image to explain what I mean.

I have had it like this for weeks and I love it there. I just need an easer way to keep it in place.

Edited 7 November, 200817 yr by DubFlyer

Can't think of anything rigid to keep it fixed, but what about those small bean bags? Photographers use them to keep their cameras still on gateposts etc.

Can't think of anything rigid to keep it fixed, but what about those small bean bags? Photographers use them to keep their cameras still on gateposts etc.

Worth a try.

It would be great if someone invented a bracket so the satnav pops up when you open the lid.

Not asking for much am I

I got an adhesive pad-backed plastic disc with my garmin which I stuck onto the underside of the top-box lid. I then suction cup the satnav cradle to this just as you would to the window.

Just loop the power cable round the back of the top-box lid, and down the the dash just to the left hand side of the stereo tp lug into the 12v socket.

Like you say, no ring marks on the windscreen, closer to hand and obscuring none of the windscreen.

Of course I still have to dismantle it all when I park up so its not on show but it still beats sticking it to the glass.

JD

Just get some double sided sticky pads from B&Q, Homebase etc.

My tomtom sits perfectly in the top box, and a tiny piece of sticky backed velco on top of the tomtom and on the underside of the top box lid keeps it perfectly still, and I can adjust the angle of it in bright sunlight too

It's just a shame more cars don't have this facility :thumbdwn:

In fact, here's a piccie of it

Edited 7 November, 200817 yr by Paul1.9L&KOct

As my navman is also my handsfree I understood it has to be in a cradle as same rules would apply to the phone.

So having failed to attach it the lid of that top-box I just put it on the screen. I had thought of the tape / velcro solution at the time, and agree it would be pretty cool if you opened the box and the satnav flipped down.

Trouble for me to do that is the antenuer(that looks wrong) aerial in other words, i have the wire coming down the driver side pillar and on the holder in that corner.I wish i could put ours where you said , only reservations would be when you brake heavy and the road humps catch you out, i even had ours jump off the cradle on one of those.

I have a similar set up (non-widescreen Garmin / VW Touran "top box").

I stuck the adhesive disk that comes with the satnav to a piece of ceramic tile, which is quite weighty and wedges into the cubbyhole.

I find i can run my satnav for a couple of hours on battery alone.

Good thing about being in topbox is that it provides a sunshade for the screen, so remains legible.

I have to look at a few of the options available here.

I completely forgot about the sticky pad that comes with the device. I just might have a permanent solution there!!!

is it not possible to run the charger through the box and connect to the battery or something? save cable running across the stereo

My Garmin 610 has a fold-out aerial on the back, so I've stuck velcro to this and to the underside of the top box. Another bit of velco locates the sat nav base to the front of the box.

My sat nav stays there all the time, and I fold it away when I park. The charger/traffic info cable is routed through a hole in the top box so that's out of sight (I had to lose the rubber mat to get enough space). The traffic aerial is patched in to the radio antenna via a capacitor - as advised on another Briskoda thread - so there's no cable on view at all.

I use the sat nav as phone handsfree, and with an external mic this works OK even with the box lid down.

Velcro sounds tatty but if you use the black stuff you can't see it at all. The only clue to the scallies is more fingerprints than usual on the box lid.

If your sat nav doesn't have a fold-out aerial, velcro a thin hinge on to it or just trust the velcro itself as a hinge.

I'm well converted to velcro now!

I've bought myself a cheap, sturdy vent holder that clips just below that, as I didn't like the way that lid was obstructing visibility around town.

With the holder removed from the base it's inconspicuous enough to be left behind. I'm preparing a hardwired charger for this as well.

My navman is flat, so I just velcroed it to the dash above the radio, so the windscreen is completely clear.

There's always option shown at the start of this thread - http://briskoda.net/octavia-ii/octavia-indash-aftermarket-gps-better-then-original-ide-say/102674/

Wonder if these would fit in the Octavia box?

Vw Golf In-dash Sat Nav

PS: Obviously too expensive if you ask me, but interest is more academic than anything else!

if you could somehow make the lid totaly vertical it would be ideal, surely it would just be a case of velcro-ing the sat nav to the underside then...

http://briskoda.net/octavia-ii/octav...de-say/102674/

What make of sat nav is that and where do you get the surrounds from????