Sticking stuff to the dash - Tape?

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Hi all,

I am planning on relocating my Parrot car kit screen after some inspiration from a friends kit.

He had his kitted fitted professionally in his company car and the fitter had stuck the screen to the dash with double sided tape.

I always thought this wouldn't last but I guess he used decent tape as the install was rock solid.

Can anybody recommend a really good tape for this application? Obviously it can get real hot inside a car so needs to be heat proof. I imagine 3M have a perfect product?
 
3M do indeed have some great double sided tape, although I wouldn't be absolutely sure of model numbers and the like.

As I said to someone in a recent thread, if you pop into a decent model shop (that specializes in R/C cars), you should be able to pick up some servo tape which will do the job (hell, it has to hold the steering servo down in cars that have no servo mounts, so takes a decent amount of shock). Just don't buy any white coloured tape, it's useless and cheap. The decent M3 stuff we had was black with a green backing film.

I'd like to see pics of his install before you do it though, having something plonked on top of my dash, with the accompanying wires and such seems really haphazard and tacky to me.
 
paradigm said:
3M do indeed have some great double sided tape, although I wouldn't be absolutely sure of model numbers and the like.

As I said to someone in a recent thread, if you pop into a decent model shop (that specializes in R/C cars), you should be able to pick up some servo tape which will do the job (hell, it has to hold the steering servo down in cars that have no servo mounts, so takes a decent amount of shock). Just don't buy any white coloured tape, it's useless and cheap. The decent M3 stuff we had was black with a green backing film.

I'd like to see pics of his install before you do it though, having something plonked on top of my dash, with the accompanying wires and such seems really haphazard and tacky to me.
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It's going in my van, the dash is really bad with little free space. I wasn't going to plonk it down with wires hanging out, lol. I will post up some pics and see what you suggest.
 
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Oh OK. I was referring to the Parrot kits that have a screen (colour, or monochrome) that you bolt to somewhere visible :)
 
Howard said:
Oh OK. I was referring to the Parrot kits that have a screen (colour, or monochrome) that you bolt to somewhere visible :)
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Mine does have a control box that you mount somewhere visible (no screen though, its only a lowly CK3000 Evo). Only the Connects2 box sits in-line between the parrot control box and the parrot main box, and sends that info into the car's loom.

Thus everything is mounted behind the glovebox.
 
I'm sure you will already, but give the surface a really good clean beforehand, preferably with alcoholic cleaning solution and let it dry before applying tape.
 
Current Location, not the most practical as it's a bit far away from the driving position.




Centre Console.


The button cluster in the centre, the bottom two buttons are blank, one of them would have been heated rear screen in the Taxi version of the car, unsure what the other blank is. I was thinking of mounting the display in that area. There is a panel gap between the black immediately around the heater controls and the grey dash plastic so no wires would be visible. The buttons are not very flat though.

Another thing, the plastic clip frame that goes around the headunit, the thin black rectangle. It seems to of started to rattle a bit. Never used to so refitting the headunit when I move the hands free may sort it. It's a tight fit and I superglued it on. Is there some sticky-back foam damping material as I think this would sort it.
 
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Archy said:
I'm sure you will already, but give the surface a really good clean beforehand, preferably with alcoholic cleaning solution and let it dry before applying tape.
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I have a can of Isopropyl alcohol so will use that.
 
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