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Drives: Yaris Hybrid Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Netherlands
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DIY: Yaris 2012+: driver's side "useless storage space" as phone holder
On the driver's side there is some useless storage space on the 2012+ editions.
![]() If I put phones, cards or small coins in it, they'll slide out during acceleration. Or worse, get blown away when the window is open. I needed a phone holder though, and I don't want to waste one of the air outlets to clip a phone holder on it. ![]() So I want to use the storage space to hold my phone. I still had an old pro clip holder from my previous car so I will attach that into this storage space. I took out the storage unit. ![]() Put an plastic bag inside the storage unit and wrapped my pro clip holder ![]() Position the holder in the storage unit ![]() Fill it up with polyurethane foam ![]() After letting it harden overnight, I cut the extra foam away ![]() Put on some putty to smooth the surface. (and sand it) ![]() Find some hybrid-blue spray paint and put some color on it. ![]() Finally, installed the brodit iPhone holder on it and put the unit back into the car (this trick can be used with any cheapass universal phone holder too of course, but I already had the brodit holder with active dock for so many years and I really like it, so I want to keep using it) ![]() Looks quite ok, but I want a deeper blue. [s]And I need to sand the surface again (i was out of sanding paper) and repaint it though. I might cut out the outer side of the mild and maybe put a small box in it, so it can be used as a coin holder.[/s] ![]() Remodded it a bit. Repaint, resend and removed a part of the material to create a small coin holding place Last edited by spammerhamster; 04-27-2014 at 02:44 PM. |
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