My New Windshield Phone Holder

Cindy asked me what I wanted for Christmas this past year and I told her I wanted a dashboard/windshield phone holder for my cellphone.

When we are pulling our travel trailer Nomad as The Wandering Wetheringtons, we have an RV GPS navigation unit attached to our windshield that directs us on routes that are safe for our travel trailer. We’ve entered the length, width, and height of Nomad (as well as our tow vehicle truck, Voyager) and the maximum speed we want to travel at and it makes sure to guide us to and over roads that can handle our equipment with no low bridges, narrow roads, dirt roads, etc. Being on the windshield at eye level makes it easy to look at it without really taking my eyes off the road.

But, when we’re NOT pulling our travel trailer we don’t use the RV GPS because it would take us on potentially longer, less direct routes that are safe for Nomad, and we don’t need that when it’s just the truck. For those kinds of trips we use Google or Apple Map apps on my cell phone with a Bluetooth connection to the truck’s sound system. Since we started traveling 4 1/2 years ago, we’ve used a WeatherTech phone holder that sits in our middle console cup holder to hold my cellphone. That works fine if you’re just listening to turn-by-turn directions, but I’m the kind of driver who likes to look at the map on the screen as well. To do that, I’ve got to look down at the phone in the cup holder, which means my eyes leave the road.

So, when Cindy asked me what I wanted for Christmas, the first thing I thought of was a cellphone holder I could attach to the dashboard or windshield. I looked at ratings and reviews for several different models and picked one I thought would work best for me and sent her the link.

Imagine my surprise Christmas morning when I opened one of my gifts and it was the cellphone holder I could attach to the dashboard or windshield, lol!

Now, I actually knew it would HAVE to attach to the windshield because our dashboard is textured and nothing really sticks to it for very long. And I knew I wanted to have it on the lower left side of the steering wheel so it would not interfere with my wider field of view through the windshield.

It’s been up now for about three weeks and has worked great for when we’re driving without the trailer behind us. It’s easy to see the screen (most of the time-a couple of times the sun has hit it just right and caused a glare) and I just feel a lot safer not having to look down to see the map.

Thanks to my wonderful wife for this great gift of a windshield phone holder.