Well, I've given up. Remember that bracket idea I had for mounting my GPS to the dash a month ago? Well, that's all been for nothing. The idea was to make a cheap little bracket that would bolt behind all the plastic and give a nice platform for mounting my GPS on. That was the plan. Spend a day taking apart the dash to get measurements and make a mock up in cardboard. Then spent a few more weeks thinking about other dash designs that would look cool. Drove around with no gauges for a while too. Well, it was all for nothing.
While on a recent trip to Circuit city for there sale on DVD-R's, I started to just browse. Checked out the Digital Camera's, Laptops, DVD's and LCD Flat screens. Man, those things are cool. I'd love to have a 50" HDTV flat screen in the bedroom. It would be like Fahrenheit 157. I'd need to get 4 of them though at they aren't cheap.
I don't really like going to the car audio area since they always have the bass cranked way too high. Well this time their rooms were down so it was quiet for once. Looked at the Alarms since mine is on the fritz right now. Also looked at the GPS's. They always keep a small stock of Garmin's there.
Recently Garmin has changed their line up with many models being discontinued. Not to mention, more people want GPS's like the Tom Tom's and StreetMap's. They always had a small section of etrek's. Usually a basic etrek and a legend, both discontinued. They also had some accessories there. With both of the GPS's going out they needed to get rid of the accessories.
So to make a long story longer, they had an Etrek surface mount bracket for $4.95. When I went to buy it it was $3.96. So now it sits on my dash. I was afraid that the adhesive would come off but after cleaning the dash with alcohol, it stuck like glue.
Pictures to come... well, now sure when that's going to happen since my fancy DSLR is being sent in to get fixed. I've got a P&S here someplace though.
