E9X phone holder prototype number two had been installed in my car

"E90M3" (e90m3) 09/24/2019 at 20:39 • Filed to: None

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Now I won’t have to worry about holding my phone while driving in GA!

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Going to test out this version for a little before the final iteration gets designed and then installed in my car.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > E90M3 09/24/2019 at 20:54

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Looking good! I have a few 3D printed parts on/in my car! :)

MrDakka > E90M3 09/24/2019 at 21:01

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You’re a br aver man than me risking all that spillage using that cupholder

M.T. Blake > E90M3 09/24/2019 at 21:12

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Awesome. Now figure out how to make one fit my M5. 

Mingmar > E90M3 09/24/2019 at 21:26

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Looks great installed, he did an amazing job designing this

E90M3 > MrDakka 09/24/2019 at 21:40

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Just have to support the cup going around corners or under hard acceleration .

E90M3 > Mingmar 09/24/2019 at 21:42

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Thanks! We’re going to get some high res pictures once it’s officially finished and the final one is installed. I was a little leery about putting this in my center console, but the final result is quite nice. 

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > MrDakka 09/24/2019 at 23:39

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But it’s an M cup. Obviously made for that cup holder.

Also I’ve grown to hate that cup holder. Mine got some sticky stuff on it and now it has to pried out with a credit card. 

MrDakka > E90M3 09/25/2019 at 00:04

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So pretty much the entire drive then

Textured Soy Protein > E90M3 10/09/2019 at 16:11

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I applaud the effort, but you didn’t want to just go for the ProClip?

Personally I have this thing suction-cupped to the shelf in front of my iDrive screen. The part that holds the phone hangs down instead of sprouting up from the suction mount.

It ends up putting the phone in a roughly similar spot to where a vent mount would, except without the floppiness of a vent mount. BMW vents seem particularly ill-suited to any vent mounts I’ve attempted to use them with.

The phone somewhat blocks the left part of the iDrive screen, and that’s where most of the menus are, but I rarely use the screen for much of anything anyway.

It’s fine.

E90M3 > Textured Soy Protein 10/09/2019 at 16:14

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I didn’t really want to block anything, and since my car lacks bluetooth audio and the USB/AUX doesn’t work, I’ve got music on my HD, so I use my iDrive quite frequently. 

Textured Soy Protein > E90M3 10/09/2019 at 16:20

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Ah, yeah I have functioning bluetooth and stream all my music. But I often drive with no music at all. 

E90M3 > Textured Soy Protein 10/09/2019 at 16:22

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Unless I have the windows down, I almost always have music on; I don’t enjoy the silence. Windows down provides enough noise where I don’t feel weird.

Textured Soy Protein > E90M3 10/09/2019 at 16:41

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I love silence. But m y car is far from silent. I have turbo whooshy noises thanks to my intake, and exhaust pops and bangs and sorta-antilag noises thanks to my downpipe and MHD adjustable burble settings. The noise I could do without is from  my fucking squealy-ass StopTech Sport brake pads. Don’t buy those.