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Trying to design a custom phone holder for the dashboard of our car because it's a weird design that makes conventional ones unusable (I don't trust the suction cup ones).

Taking the measurements has made me painfully aware of just how... curved everything is on a dashboard. 🤬

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I have an older car with a cd/dvd slot in the stereo HU. I have a magnetic holder there. Is that an option?
in reply to Brian Sullivan

@Brian Sullivan I'm not sure how that would work, but I did get my measurements and I've already gone all sunk-cost-fallacy on this one.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Not to deter you from your chosen path but just to provide info this is what I have:

A sticky metal plate is attached to the rear of the phone.

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in reply to Brian Sullivan

@Brian Sullivan We've got a similar one that suction cups to the windshield. I didn't want to permanently affix the plate to my phone (especially since we have two phones between the two of us).

Thought I could get around it by putting the plate inside of the case, but it holds much less securely that way (though the suction cup has still historically been the weakest link).

Our current solution involves a wooden block and a sock. It works, but my plan is a decided upgrade.

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