Mount that stays on for a 520T?

[mikealder]

First of all you will need a Pro-Clip to suit your car and brodit "Ball" attached to the Pro-Clip, I would suggest you attach these two components before fitting this to the car, as it avoids slipping with the screwdriver and damaging the trim of the car!
In addition you need the TomTom supplied windscreen mount to act as a donor for the device specific addaptor.



Using a small screwdriver inserted to the small cut out visible in the center disk of the TomTom mount simply lever/ flick out the disk:



Once the center disk is removed four Phillips head screws are revealed, remove these with a suitable size driver (the screw heads are rather shallow and small, don't loose the screws as they will be needed later). The rear cup will now float free and can be pushed down the stem of the mount:



First of all remove the part that is fitted around the ball, secondly remove the rear collar which will take a little force to seperate the assembly, by now you should have a pile of bits looking similar to this:



Push the rear collar over the Brodit ball:



Attach the square section of the TomTom mount to the rear collar using the four screws removed earlier:



Re-fit the center cover by pushing it back in to position:



Next we move to the car, this is the assembled x20/ x30 Brodit addapted mount in my Ovlov V70:



Finally with the device attached, note the power cable is routed through the air vent to avoid having wires all over the inside of the car:



Avoids the costly purchase of an active mount with all the security of a physical attachement to the dash structure that doesn't rely upon suction cups - Mike

[mikealder]

There is also the accessory after market x20/ x30 mount called the "Easy Port" which can be modified in a similar way, to start you will need a Brodit Pro-Clip to suit your vehicle and the Brodit "Ball"



Have a close look at the top of the TomTom Easy Port x20/ x30 mount and you will see two rubber "plugs" these are simply levered out using your finger nails to reveal the two Phillips head screws:



Remove the two screws and the mount simply "falls appart"



Re-assemble the TomTom supplied parts to the Brodit "Ball" to end up with an assembly looking like this:



What does it look like in the car, well here is the mount in the Ovlov V70, power cable is routed through the air vent which avoids having wiring all over the cabin of the car:



With the device attached in the lower position:



The "Easy Port" x20/ x30 also offers the option to rotate the mount shoe through 180 degrees which offers a higher position for the PND:

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