[968Syncro]

It's already a year old, but you may know that the socialist republic of California has made it illegal to hold your phone while driving.  Side note, the police have been pulling people over for this crime.

 

I just put some phone mounts in the cars (I'm always slow obeying laws), and here are a couple of pics.  My wife had bought some stuff that then sat in the garage, and during holiday cleanup I decided to put them to use.  It is simply a vacuum mount to the car, and a magnetic mount to your phone.  I could find only one place in the 968 that makes sense, and is flat enough to allow the device to hold a vacuum.  The glove box door opens fine, just barely clears the mount, and this location doesn't seem to interfere with anything except the passenger's leg space.   What do you think, any other good solutions?

 

   

 

   

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[Bulti]

When you use your phone to navigate, it would be probably better to have it in a place where you do not need to avert your vision too far from straight ahead. For obvious reasons. I use a small holder that you can put into the air vent next to the steering wheel.


These guys sell boatloads of different solutions. I use one of their products on my bike. A bit pricey maybe, but the quality is great:


Ram-Mount

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[94SilverCab]

Why talk and drive when you can just light up a joint and cruise???

 

:glare:

 

Jay

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[Rap]

As long as you're only talking and not texting, don't worry- be happy. You live in CA. after all and laws don't apply to you. Use you're sanctuary status as a citizen of CA.

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[ds968]

No texting , no drinking coffe , no eating , no smoking, no putting on make up, no shaving ( hopefully those last two activities not performed by the same person ..) hands free talking only ( Italians are incapable of that so they're excluded - sorry, had to take a shot back at Bob RAP for his cheap CA shot ) although even any phone calls raise debates about attentiveness to the road while driving , Drive the damn car , stay totally alert pay attention to everything around you, everything else can wait until you're parked .

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[Rap]

No apologies needed. Cheap or true? Out here in Pennsyltucky we gots a diferent way of lookin at tings.

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[94SilverCab]

No texting , no drinking coffe , no eating , no smoking, no putting on make up, no shaving ( hopefully those last two activities not performed by the same person ..) hands free talking only ( Italians are incapable of that so they're excluded - sorry, had to take a shot back at Bob RAP for his cheap CA shot ) although even any phone calls raise debates about attentiveness to the road while driving , Drive the damn car , stay totally alert pay attention to everything around you, everything else can wait until you're parked .

 

Easy Dan, you need to lay back on the Sativa, try a hybrid Indica

 

Jay

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[968Syncro]

I looked through the Ram-Mount web site, and Bulti is right, they have some very solid and well engineered mounting systems.

 

And because of the other comments, this morning I went outside and added some more equipment to the console.  What do you think?  You know: pretty well thought out, it's close to the ashtray, within reach of passengers, the driver can select some Grateful Dead on the stereo at the same time as grabbing this equipment, its not visible from passing cars, a good match with a tiptronic car, and will assist the browning of the classic grey door panels.  I hope you guys agree its pretty thoughtful and well designed.

 

   

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[apex]

FWIW I use the tiniest mount I could find - Kenu Airframe - which clips to the non-venting vent grille over the odometer reset button. Very happy with it - steering wheel blocks a little bit of the view but all in all it is in a very good place for visual input from a map app. Almost everything else on the market struck me as over-engineered.

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[lbpesq]

Why talk and drive when you can just light up a joint and cruise???

 

:glare:

 

Jay

What else should we expect from someone named "jay"!


As for the phone, I put mine in the cubby hole or leave it in my pocket and use the hands-free function in my stereo deck.


Bill

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[ds968]

Easy Dan, you need to lay back on the Sativa, try a hybrid Indica

Jay

What the heck are Sativa and Indica ?! They sound like a couple of nice Hindi ladies .

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[Rap]

Me think thou doth protesteth too much.

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[lbpesq]

Sativa and Indica were my feline pets:


Cattabis Indica & Cattabis Sativa. We adopted them as sister kittens. Unfortunately, Tiva never grew and didn't make it. Indy, OTOH, is now 6.5 years old and a very spoiled kitty! Sometimes she gets the devil in her and starts running around the house, seemingly bouncing off the walls. We call it "the Indy 500".


Otherwise, the terms refer to Cannabis Sativa and Cannabis Indica, two of the three recognized species of the Cannabis plant.


Bonus question: What is the third species? (And no fair just googling the answer!)

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[968Syncro]

Bonus question: What is the third species? (And no fair just googling the answer!)

 

Jack Daniels?

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[94SilverCab]

I'm a big Eagles fan...our Running Backs are Blount and Ajai...you can imagine the backfield jokes

 

Jay

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[Kim]

Technically speaking, the two mentioned are Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica.  Note the capitals on the genus name only and the italics on both the genus and species name. And I don't have any idea what a third species might be. Gotta love that Carl Linnaeus. 

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[ds968]

Given the recent discussion of this thread I think someone should look into 968 roach or hukka pipes mounts . ;-)

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[lbpesq]

O.K., I can dig the capitalize the first name only, but I have no idea how to do italics on my iPad! So, the answer is "Cannabis ruderalis"! (Please pretend it is in italics). And I'm thinking a little chamber under the hood sitting near the exhaust with a tube running back to the passenger compartment. You could fill it with herb and vaporize as it heats up! And when not in use for that purpose, you could throw a couple of hot dogs and a potato in the chamber and cook your dinner on the way home from work! Elon Musk, eat your heart out!

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[Rap]

Jeff Sessions would love to patent this for you!

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[az968]

Jay, I think it's time for the 968 Forum clips we've discussed for this summers 968 gathering in CA :-)

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