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Howdy all,
Had the 2018 SCREW 802A / Tech Pkg for a bit over a week now, starting to get things installed. One of the first things that goes in any of my vehicles is a radar detector.
But, this is California, and radar detectors cannot, legally, be mounted on the front windshield in any way. Also, at my work detectors cannot be turned on when on the facility so I powered via an upfitter switch, so I can kill it at will. And I like clean installs, I don't like anything below the mirror to interfere with my sight lines. Either remote installations or over the mirror are my preferred installs.
But there is a shortage of good, over the mirror, mounts, so I often have to make my own. This is my latest take on such a mount.
The mount is made from 1/8 inch aluminum sheet cut (just a jig saw required) and bent (hammer and vice) to shape and a small block of 1 x 1.25 x 3/8 aluminum hogged out (Dremel tool or drill press) to make a clamp. Also used a mount clip cut from a suction cup mounting rig to hold the detector to the AL mount. Grand total of parts cost is about $15, and 3 or 4 hours worth of fitting, bending, drilling, threading, and painting.
Top view here:
Bottom view here:
Two views of it mounted before sliding the detector into the mount:
And a view with the detector mounted and on.
Yes, I absolutely understand what this does to the laser detection. But realistically a laser detector hit is typically just notification that you just got a speeding tax (if you don't run jammers, and I don't), so I don't really care much about that. And there is not much laser locally so that is really only a concern when on a road trip. I did check the loss of the shaded area material to various microwave freqs though, and while there is a slight loss I think it very acceptable.
T!
Had the 2018 SCREW 802A / Tech Pkg for a bit over a week now, starting to get things installed. One of the first things that goes in any of my vehicles is a radar detector.
But, this is California, and radar detectors cannot, legally, be mounted on the front windshield in any way. Also, at my work detectors cannot be turned on when on the facility so I powered via an upfitter switch, so I can kill it at will. And I like clean installs, I don't like anything below the mirror to interfere with my sight lines. Either remote installations or over the mirror are my preferred installs.
But there is a shortage of good, over the mirror, mounts, so I often have to make my own. This is my latest take on such a mount.
The mount is made from 1/8 inch aluminum sheet cut (just a jig saw required) and bent (hammer and vice) to shape and a small block of 1 x 1.25 x 3/8 aluminum hogged out (Dremel tool or drill press) to make a clamp. Also used a mount clip cut from a suction cup mounting rig to hold the detector to the AL mount. Grand total of parts cost is about $15, and 3 or 4 hours worth of fitting, bending, drilling, threading, and painting.
Top view here:
Bottom view here:
Two views of it mounted before sliding the detector into the mount:
And a view with the detector mounted and on.
Yes, I absolutely understand what this does to the laser detection. But realistically a laser detector hit is typically just notification that you just got a speeding tax (if you don't run jammers, and I don't), so I don't really care much about that. And there is not much laser locally so that is really only a concern when on a road trip. I did check the loss of the shaded area material to various microwave freqs though, and while there is a slight loss I think it very acceptable.
T!
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