Iphone car mount

[dave23572]

Has anyone found a good strong iPhone car mount for taking trackday footage that will be passed by MSV marshalls?

I know the MSV marshalls are very stringent about this sort of thing so while there are lots of mounts around, I don't want to waste my money on something the marshalls will tell me to remove.

I'm looking for either a windscreen mounted iphone mount or one that attaches to a bar/clamp thing that attaches to the seat headrest supports.


Dave

[wellground]

http://www.ram-mount.co.uk/apple-iphone-5-5s-holde...

Just fitted this, works very well. Used it for the first time on Tuesday at Castle Combe. I have the sticky pad version, could do with a bit better glue, that's all. This is a lap of footage taken with it on my iPhone 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BO6Cz8mWL8

Hope that helps.

Rob

[git-r]

Op - afaik MSV don't allow any type of suction mount...

Great bit if footage, sounds like a serious bit of evo 1.2 sustained on one corner, excellent! If you could get that much in all the corners you'd go even quicker

What g'box are you running?

[dave23572]

Yes I suspect MSV wouldn't allow a suction mounted camera/phone mount.

I wonder if it would help if the mount had a secondary tether?
Such as a tie-wrap through a dash vent or something?

Alternatively I was thinking of one of those headrest support based bar mounts.
Perhaps a bicycle type mount could be used on that?

[scubadude]

I use this on my bike- http://www.quadlockcase.com/

Their stock car mount is a suction cup But they do a variety of permanent mounts, stick on, cable tie and tripod mounts, one of which might be permanent enough for track use.

[git-r]

Anything on a window they won't allow. Not worth risking.

I use a Joby gorillapod for my camera and have been for years. It works fine, costs £30 from Amazon and could work with an iPhone.

I do use my iphone with a suction mount and it works fine, cost about £7 online and hasn't broken in over a years use, I use it everyday..

[Cunno]

I was looking at the same thing only the other week. In the end I bought a cheap I phone case and glued it to the back of my go pro case. So I can now use all the go pro mounts to secure the I phone. Works ok to and only cost £4.

http://youtu.be/fbHXF9rZqC4

[DiscoColin]

wellground said:

http://www.ram-mount.co.uk/apple-iphone-5-5s-holde...

Just fitted this, works very well. Used it for the first time on Tuesday at Castle Combe. I have the sticky pad version, could do with a bit better glue, that's all.

Really? I have the adhesive pad ball for the RAM system and frankly could probably hang myself off of it from the screen before it came away...?

[wellground]

DiscoColin said:

wellground said:

http://www.ram-mount.co.uk/apple-iphone-5-5s-holde...

Just fitted this, works very well. Used it for the first time on Tuesday at Castle Combe. I have the sticky pad version, could do with a bit better glue, that's all.

Really? I have the adhesive pad ball for the RAM system and frankly could probably hang myself off of it from the screen before it came away...?

Yes, not sure why, I used the wipe cleaner before I stuck it to the dash, but it came off just after I took that footage. I am going to get some more glue. Should be just fine.

[RustyBison]

Try the Spiderpodium by Breffo. I've used this for several months now and it's holding up very well.

[evilmiyagi]

git-r said:

Anything on a window they won't allow. Not worth risking.

I was using a 3M sticky pad adapter onto the windscreen at Brands and they were more than happy to allow that...

To quote "The bracket will break before the pad lets go"...

EM

[stef1808]

Was at oulton park last week with msv. Got told off for using my gopro helmet cam but no mention of my phone in a ram mount on the windshield - although they could of simply missed it. Ram mounts are awesome also btw