A while back I rushed to get my iPod hooked up to my van before a
summer trip. I chose a stalk dock thing that fits into cig lighter and
the iPod docks onto top of  adjustable stalk, a short mini plug
connects from cig lighter plug to the aux in on the front panel of my
head unit (JVC KD-SX980).

Its a good idea and does work as advertised but for two Vanagon related
things, one is the cig lighter is shallow enough to prevent a good
solid fit. I used an additional o-ring on plug to tighten things up,
and two,  the lighter socket itself rotates on the sheet metal of the
dash. I solved that  by epoxy-ing the lighter socket in place.

But still, on rough roads the pod on stalk would rotate in the socket.
I fixed that by making a support , first out of pink styrofoam (oh, how
stevie j would groan), then later in ebonized oak. Its in the shape of
a narrow curved fin, rather like a fuba antenna.

Its mounted on the dash via an old floppy drive magnet (flat doughnut)
glued to the bottom, and supports the pod stalk quite well.

I find myself using the pod more than the cd/mp3 disc player now.

Alistair

'82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/