Here is a very slick ashtray setup:

http://www.251.org/83VgoniPod.html

Chris

On 5/4/06, Alistair Bell <albell@uvic.ca> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have my mini on a cig lighter based stalk. Has a dock at one end
> and a bendable stalk to the cig lighter end which has the mini din
> jack to head unit.
>
> 2-3  probs that you have to address:
>
> 1. the stock vanagon lighter i have seems shallower and maybe even a
> touch wider than the dock plug wants. An extra o ring on plug solves
> that.
>
> 2. the stock lighter has a tendency to rotate in the dash. I glued it
> in with epoxy
>
> 3 - optional - on rough roads the stalk will bounce a round a bit. I
> made a wooded support (quite nice IMHO, smooth shark fin like curve
> with o ring acting as rubber band to hold stalk onto end of it) that
> i stuck onto dash with double sided tape (originally used magnet).
>
> After these mods the set up works just fine. The cig stalk adapter
> was under CAD 40.
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
>
> '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/
>
> On 4-May-06, at 4:39 PM, robertmstewart wrote:
>
> Has Anyone found a good place where to located your iPod in your van.
> Currently I take the ashtray out, and put it in there while driving.
>
> I have a SONY Head unit with an aux in that I have a stereo rca wired
> into
> and works great, the problem is finding a good spot to mount the base
> station for the iPod.
>
> I thought about putting some Velcro down on the dash, just right of the
> driving console and mounting the base there, but part of me thinks that
> attaching an L bracket to to plastic to the left of the automatic
> shifter
> and placing the base station on their would be a better idea. I could
> run
> the rca cable down there and a power line from the cig. Lighter.
>
> How would I take a constant draw off the cig. Lighter and hardware
> the power
> supply for the ipod? That way the cig. Lighter could still be used for
> powering other things. Would this be difficult?
>
> I would be interested in seeing what others have done and hearing your
> suggestions...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rob
> --
> Rob
> NYC/Long Beach, NY
> 88 Wolfsburg, Silver
>