I love my new Mk1, I want to add my phone charger in and my camera detector without having cables dangling around all over the shop.

 

First I think I'd like to put a phone charger cable in the cubby box under the radio. Is there an easily accessible power-source I can tap for this?

 

Cheers

-Rob

In the MKII's we've generally gone for a a switched live straight out of the fuse-box. There's no reason you couldn't do the same in a MKI

As above you can easily run power from either the fuse box or the distribution box under the steering wheel.

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Why not looped off the switched live on the back of the radio?

OK so getting a 12v feed doesn't seem to be too hard. Now to turn that into a 5v for charging USB. What's the best way of doing this? I presume at worst I could solder to a cigg-lighter charger?

I ran a 12v line into a 4-port power socket thingy in the glove box. Into that is plugged the usual plugs for charger and dashcam. A hole in the back of the glovebox lets the cables out.

 

FUBAR did one into the knee-box on his MKII too.

 

I would humbly suggest that this is the easiest way to go, easy install and easy to plug more in if needed.

Makes sense. I just had a look and there doesn't appear to be a nice way into the glove box without drilling holes, is that correct?

 

It's ok, I think I can manage drilling some neat holes but I wanted to make sure I hadn't missed a grommit or something.

Correct, you'll be making your own holes. I put mine in the top back right corner. The 4-port then obscured the hole

I used a 12v to 5v in line converter off ebay with a female usb port on the end of it. Works great and very discrete once wired into fusebox and behind glovebox. Look at item 321123348763 for example.

Adam

I hard wired one of these in to the distribution box under the steering wheel and located it in the cubby hole by your knees, I use it to power my dash cam and the USB to plug in my phone.