My only concern with the phone mount is my phone sticking up too high and obstructing any view above the hood line or blocking the air vent. Not a big deal from a safety point of view, but more of an annoyance I suppose. I'll try it out for a couple week either way.
I'll give it a try, but Spotify and Google maps only work in portrait mode for me. In order to get the proclip mount to work for me I ended up blocking the right vent but moving it as far to the center as possible while still being able to see the time on the clock. Passenger can still use the right center vent, but anytime I use a wired charger instead of the wireless charger I have mounted the cord hangs down by the automatic shifter. Not an issue right now, but I'm fixing a manual 4Runner to be my new daily so that could be a problem. I spent a lot of money (way too much money) trying out 4 different phone mounting solutions my first time around so I'm not too concerned about another $50 to try yours out.That's great feedback, thank you! Glad to hear the setup is working well for you :thumb:
That is a valid concern - I also wouldn't want the phone to block the vent of my view of the road (which I think is a major shortfall of the Pro Clip concept).
I tinkered a lot with the design to get the mounting surface to where I think is best for most folks. For ~6' person, with the phone in a portrait mode, the vent is completely unobscured, and the top of the phone sticks slightly above the hood. It might block something that is a few feet to the right/front of the hood, but in practice I don't even notice it - it is less of an obstruction that the A-pillars. If you put the phone into landscape orientation, then nothing gets obstructed:
Also keep in mind that there is some flexibility in where you locate the phone on the mounting bracket - you can bias it up/down and left/right a little to best suit you. And the RAM holder option gives you even more flexibility.
Sorry for the threadjack!
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