Where do you put your phone in your car?

[Cookie Monster]

Next to the e brake handle

I see you've done the manual to auto swap. Couldn't handle a real transmission, huh.

[Eye of the Tiger]

I use my phone for GPS too, so it needs to be where I can see it.

I turn on the lady's voice so I don't have to see the map. The lady goes in my cupholder and talks to me.

[93JC]

For all the folks that stash em away... u dont use GPS?

Nope, I know my way around.

Listen to music? I have my phone out a lot for that

Bluetooth.

[CJ]

I put my phone in the cup holder, wallet in the door handle, and keys in the small change holder in front of the cup holder.

[FoMoJo]

For all the folks that stash em away... u dont use GPS? Listen to music? I have my phone out a lot for that

Don't have a phone.  I just turn on the radio.

[MX793]

For all the folks that stash em away... u dont use GPS? Listen to music? I have my phone out a lot for that

In this state, it's illegal to handle your phone at all while driving, be it for texting, calling, or using it as a GPS or music player.  Unmarked Tahoes everywhere patrolling explicitly for ticketing people using cell phones while driving.  I don't have a windshield or dash mount for it, so it stays tucked away. 

I've never actually used the GPS feature on my phone.  I generally look at and memorize the route I want to take before I leave, or pull over and check google maps if I get lost.

I don't use my phone as a music player ever.  I'm not one of those people who needs to have music in their ears all the time, and so don't feel at all compelled to have music (and earbuds) on hand at all times.  Mustang can play music off a thumb drive.  I've got a few gigs of music on a memory stick in that car.  The Mazda didn't have an Aux input, so I just relied on good old FM radio, a CD, or nothing.  Jetta also doesn't have an Aux input, but it will play MP3s off of CD and has a 6 disc changer, so I've got some CDs loaded up with MP3s.  Enough to not have to hear the same song twice in any given trip I'll take with it.

[68_427]

Yeah NYS will fuck you up if they even think you were using your phone

[hotrodalex]

What a miserable place to live.

[MrH]

Ohio is super lax. If I'm at a standstill, I'll send texts or change music from my phone.

I think I like that air vent mount idea. Looks really clean.

[Raza]

Pocket.

Under the handbrake if I'm using it as a nav system. 

[Raza]

In this state, it's illegal to handle your phone at all while driving, be it for texting, calling, or using it as a GPS or music player.  Unmarked Tahoes everywhere patrolling explicitly for ticketing people using cell phones while driving.  I don't have a windshield or dash mount for it, so it stays tucked away. 

I've never actually used the GPS feature on my phone.  I generally look at and memorize the route I want to take before I leave, or pull over and check google maps if I get lost.

I don't use my phone as a music player ever.  I'm not one of those people who needs to have music in their ears all the time, and so don't feel at all compelled to have music (and earbuds) on hand at all times.  Mustang can play music off a thumb drive.  I've got a few gigs of music on a memory stick in that car.  The Mazda didn't have an Aux input, so I just relied on good old FM radio, a CD, or nothing.  Jetta also doesn't have an Aux input, but it will play MP3s off of CD and has a 6 disc changer, so I've got some CDs loaded up with MP3s.  Enough to not have to hear the same song twice in any given trip I'll take with it.

Your Jetta is a MkV, right?  I thought all the early models had them in the glove compartment?  My Jetta had it in the center console storage, but I think that was new for 2008.

[Rich]

Why don't you just keep it in your pocket if you're doing spirited driving?

Taking it in and out of pockets to edit music is a pain in the butt. When the roads get twisty it's easier for my to chuck it between my legs

[cawimmer430]

[SVT666]

That blocks your view Wimmer. 

[NomisR]

Not really sure what it's for originally, but I put it in the little space just behind the window switches (left of them in the picture)

Yeah, I keep my phone on the door, easier to grab when getting out of the car and won't get in the way.  It's only on the center consol when charging, although i'm thinking putting a Qi charger somewhere there so I can just put my phone there

[2o6]

In between my legs or on my passenger seat

[MX793]

Your Jetta is a MkV, right?  I thought all the early models had them in the glove compartment?  My Jetta had it in the center console storage, but I think that was new for 2008.

Poked around the glove box and found nothing there.  The head unit also doesn't have a button for for Aux; just AM/FM/CD.  According to some posts I found in the VW boards, '07 was the first year for Aux inputs on the MkV.

[12,000 RPM]

Civic has so many pockets I dont know what to choose

[Byteme]

In this state, it's illegal to handle your phone at all while driving, be it for texting, calling, or using it as a GPS or music player.  Unmarked Tahoes everywhere patrolling explicitly for ticketing people using cell phones while driving.  I don't have a windshield or dash mount for it, so it stays tucked away. 

I've never actually used the GPS feature on my phone.  I generally look at and memorize the route I want to take before I leave, or pull over and check google maps if I get lost.

I don't use my phone as a music player ever.  I'm not one of those people who needs to have music in their ears all the time, and so don't feel at all compelled to have music (and earbuds) on hand at all times.  Mustang can play music off a thumb drive.  I've got a few gigs of music on a memory stick in that car.  The Mazda didn't have an Aux input, so I just relied on good old FM radio, a CD, or nothing.  Jetta also doesn't have an Aux input, but it will play MP3s off of CD and has a 6 disc changer, so I've got some CDs loaded up with MP3s.  Enough to not have to hear the same song twice in any given trip I'll take with it.

I use the TomTom I keep in the car for in car navigation.

In the M-B I use the radio or plug an MP3 player into the aftermarket Jack I installed.  I've used the in trunk changer twice.  It's just too inconvenient tucked away back there. 

The 6 does not have an aux input jack, but does have an in dash 6 disc changer.  In town I usually listen to NPR on FM and on a trip, if we don't take the M-B, I take several CD's.  I might mount an Aux input jack somewhere in the 6.  The one I mounted in the M-B I got from Crutchfield and it works like a charm.

[r0tor]

Ohio is super lax. If I'm at a standstill, I'll send texts or change music from my phone.

I think I like that air vent mount idea. Looks really clean.

It works great and doesnt look like an 8th graders erector set project... even when im driving fairly "spirited" it keeps my phone planted.

Damn good product

[Raza]

Poked around the glove box and found nothing there.  The head unit also doesn't have a button for for Aux; just AM/FM/CD.  According to some posts I found in the VW boards, '07 was the first year for Aux inputs on the MkV.

I didn't know that. Interesting.

[Madman]

I'm having a hard time finding a place in the car for my phone.




It's a bitch to text on this thing, too!

[CALL_911]

My cupholder

[Xer0]

The Civic's USB jack is in the armrest, so I'll usually keep my phone in the cupholder connected in.

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

The Civic's USB jack is in the armrest, so I'll usually keep my phone in the cupholder connected in.

WOW! Honda didn't move the shifter closer to the driver in US versions of the car? Looks like an awkward reach to the shifter in this pic......

[Cookie Monster]

WOW! Honda didn't move the shifter closer to the driver in US versions of the car? Looks like an awkward reach to the shifter in this pic......

They did, it's on the other side in RHD versions:



TBH shifter placement is just fine on the Civic.

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

They did, it's on the other side in RHD versions:



TBH shifter placement is just fine on the Civic.

Oh wow! Maybe it's not as far of a stretch as it looks.

[Xer0]

WOW! Honda didn't move the shifter closer to the driver in US versions of the car? Looks like an awkward reach to the shifter in this pic......

Maybe it's the picture, but the placement is fine and it never feels out of reach or like you're stretching to get to it.  I genuinely really like the interior a lot, especially how driver angled it is.

[cawimmer430]

That blocks your view Wimmer. 

Nope.

[SVT666]

That totally blocks your view.  Especially at an intersection or crosswalk.  Especially when there is a phone in it.  If you put your phone in the holder, it would be exactly like having a third A-pillar in that 2nd photo.