welcome back to steve rob reviews today i'm going to reviewing this this is my cell phone this is
my new cell phone holder that i'm going to put in my silverado and this thing is slick i've had this
for quite a long time now and i'm gonna take a look at this and show you over on the bench there
all the different neat features and i've had this like i said for quite a bit of time
i've used it a lot and on the bench i also got my gps unit and you know when you're looking at
a lot of vehicles today where do you mount your gps so on my f-150 i retrofitted this
to fit my silverado and uh i'm gonna show you that too but let's get to this first and how
unique this is i paid like 20 dollars for this off of amazon uh you can just search for it anywhere
and if you take a look there what is the name you can see the name right there and it's just you
green so if you google that well you'll find it and i think it's pretty slick for twenty dollars
and uh there's some features on this that i did not realize until i
you know took it out of the box and you have to put it together the only thing you have to do is
you have to just snap the head on here and it took two hands to actually snap it on it's one of the
the strongest uh units that i've seen where you snap it on but uh we're going to take a look at
the features and i would say this is one of my top buys that i've got like i said i've used
it for quite a long time it hasn't broke it's not busted it's not cheesy and i like stuff not cheesy
so let's take a look okay so let's just take a look at this unit quickly and the first thing is
you have these two jaws on either side and they will go in and out with the press of a button
and you just ratchet them into the position you need and that's it like i don't actually
move this at all i leave it the same position all the time and this is the only piece you have to
snap in and i'll tell you that's on there real good so the best part about this is the average
cup holder is about three inches and this goes to about three and a half and as you can see here you
crank this out and this grabs a hold of your the side of your cup holder there's three legs and
you bring it back in to release it if you want to take it off you know from the from the cup holder
and this little spot right in here you can move in any position you like
and the best thing i liked about this is if i loosen this all the way i can bring it down to it
completely closes this gap all together but what i do is i feed my usb cable through there first
and i bring this down just to touch the cable so that i can tighten it up and then on the far side
when the cable is sticking out it's not going to drop back in anywhere and it's going to plug in
right to my phone and there's a spot in the bottom here for it to plug right in and i
thought that's pretty slick right there so there's different types of units and of course this one
here you can put in any direction you like you know back and forth you know anywhere you want
and a lot of them had like just a cable just a wire like almost like a a lamp wire you know
where you can be flexible to go anywhere and i'm thinking okay so how would i mount my usb cable
coming in here that's gotta plug into my cell phone now the reason why i plug it in is so i
got the android auto or if you have the uh apple car play on your vehicle and the ideal thing for
me was the cord coming through the front so let's go and mount this in the vehicle and but first
what i'm going to do is i'm going to show you what i did to my gps unit and how it fits in the
silverado really slick now doesn't move around and doesn't bounce so let's get to that next
so this is just your regular gps kind of a unit and all i did was i mounted it on this this hunk
of plastic i had and if you take a look in the back the only thing unique that i did
was i got my hot glue gun and i put hot glue all the way around the back so that this will stay
rigid in one space one spot all the time will not flop around going over a bump it used to drop down
and everything and all i did you see on the back side here i just built it up now all this here
it's not wood i just spray painted this brown but this is just that pvc plastic trim that you get
and uh that's what it looks like underneath i added two pieces of foam strip and when that
sits in the vehicle like this the only thing i have to do now is turn it to the direction i want
and that's it it's you know and it mounts solid i'll show you what it looks like in the vehicle
and on the back side here this is all i've done a piece of angle iron i mounted it solid with a
rivet here through the back because this had like a suction cup on it before kept on falling off so
i just mounted it and i've got a uh a carriage bolt that goes through there with a double nut
so i can just move this in any direction i want and the screen no longer flops up and down so
let's go out to the vehicle and i'll show you how these look and how well they suit the vehicle and
their purpose is just to be stationary and work and i tell you this here and this here little cell
phone holder for twenty dollars i'm telling you is probably one of the best items i've ever bought
especially when they've got so much going in you know to having this fit in your cup holder
so nice so let's go out and i'll show you what it looks like in the vehicle okay so there it is
in the vehicle right there and you could see how the cable just comes through here so nice in the
bottom and this piece here will not go through there and i just weaved it underneath the mat
comes out to here and here's the uh the gps cable that comes along and there it is right there like
i mean i think that's pretty slick right there that's a good spot for it and i mean it's not
loose or anything that's in there pretty solid and i can turn the screen left or right and i
don't have to worry anymore about this bouncing up and down or tilting or doing anything so i think
that's a win-win right there and you know i've had this now for like i say quite a long time and
you know it's in there really solid it's not going anywhere so you know so easy just to unplug
and i just slide the phone right out and that's it so i mean there you go right there you green
well what do you think i've had that for over a year it hasn't destructed it's been in you
know like i mean it just sits there every day and it does nothing it just sits there and as
long as it doesn't fall apart well i'm happy and for twenty dollars well you tell you what
can't go wrong for 20 bucks to me i couldn't even rig up something for 20 to fit in there and it's
just in the right spot for me and you know a lot of vehicles there's nowhere to put your cell phone
i mean you can stick it in your coffee cup holder if you like but besides that you try and put a
cable on the bottom of it now it's sitting on the cable because your cell phone has to sit upright
it doesn't work in any other direction right i mean if you turn your cell phone upside
down it doesn't flip upside down now there's only one thing i didn't show is yes you can
move it you know from vertical to horizontal and it stays in the horizontal position as well except
you see the cable coming out the side instead of the bottom right but i really never use it in that
mode because whatever i have on my my cell phone whatever's there shows up on my my eight inch
display screen on the vehicle instrument panel so i'm not really using the cell phone at all i'm
just using it to display everything i want on the instrument panel itself in the infotainment center
so for me i think it was just a great item to buy so i thought i'd just share it with you today and
also share a little bit of a tip on your if you've got one of them gps's that is constantly like just
constantly flopping down all the time because you know that kind of a joint that they have in there
that just never stays in one spot well hot glue gun does great and it's not like a real heavy
duty permanent type of thing you can take all that hot blue off if you wanted to after anyways but uh
yeah i think that's another uh no brainer for me because it's a little bit frustrating going down a
bunch of logging roads and your gps is flopping up and down going sideways all the time now i've got
no time for that right okay so thanks for joining me here today i hope you enjoyed the video if you
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