Upgrades 3. Mobile Phone Mount

There are not too many places to put a phone in the cabin without either drilling or sticking a mount somewhere. I've never liked the idea of doing that so I wanted to use the two screws on the scuttle just in front of the windscreen. Luckily a solution for this already exists and is cheap enough to buy from ebay which is basically a 3d printed mount which can then utilise the Brodit mount for your phone.

I chose to grab the one with the spacer (this is to allow it to sit over the heavy duty trim on the edge of the scuttle, which I intend to keep). I also have a Samsung S22, so I chose to get the relevant Brodit mount for that as well, which included the ability to tilt and swivel (so the passenger can use it, and so we can also rotate it landscape).

As well as the parts, I also replaced the scuttle popper bases with some black versions that I had left over from the bow side protector install, and also used 2 x No6 (3.5mm) x 19mm self tapping screws in black to finish the look (N.B. these were added after the photos were taken!)

Fitting it was fairly trivial provided you have some small offset screwdrivers, this means you can remove and replace the screws without touching the windscreen.

The next job was to install the wiring and source a suitable cigarette adapter which would be a permanent fixture for a power source. I found a small length of cable and managed to simply slot it between the scuttle and the dash (above the fuel gauge), and then slide this along so it is hidden (I've left a little bit of play on it to allow for the phone to move/rotate a bit and secured it fully with a small piece of gorilla tape.

For the USB adapter, there are so many to choose from, in the end I went for this one from Amazon. It's a GemCoo USB C 80W 3-port charger with 2 USB-Cs (Quick Charge 3.0) and one old school USB 2.0 slot. It also shows the current battery voltage. It was a little loose in the Caterham slot, so I added a tiny slither of gorilla tape along one side, which when slotted in, stopped any movement of the adapter. This can now stay as a permanent power source in the car.

As I have a master cut off switch, I'm happy to just leave it in at all times.

It is also worth noting that when sitting in the car, I can see and use all the switches on the dash with ease.