Hey All,

Thought I'd share some photos of an ipad dock and cupholder I made. I can now drink coffee AND enjoy navigation in my '85 300TD!

There's a small Cobra 400w AC Converter mounted under the ipad dock. The blue pad is a cutting from a yoga mat and wood is some scrap I found laying around the farm. I used the ipad to take the photo, so you can't see it in action unfortunately.

Its mounted to an old cell phone mount from the previous owner. Got lucky there!

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Simple & effective, I like it. You might want to add some rubber corner straps to hold the ipad in place if you hit a bump or crash though.

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What was the purpose of the 400w AC converter? I would think that the direct solution would have been a 12V to USB 2.0 cable.

Thanks. Good idea on the corner straps.

I plan on having this on the open road a lot - so I'll be able to power my laptop, and whatever else as needed, without buying a car charger. The AC converter has a USB jack as well. Plus, there seems to be no intact wiring to the cigar lighter, so I would have had to troubleshoot and wire that anyway.

All I can say is............................................................SMASH!

I think the cigar lighter just feeds off one of the radio wires, which may have been cut off during a radio upgrade.