[oz17ub]

bought a gme tx3100 yesterday and i want to mount it sonewhere out of the road if possible or somewhere practical. just wondering what seems to be the best place or where people have been creative and mounted theres. I got a 96 coily so you know the dash im installing into. cheers guys

[masterA]

Under the steering wheel (left of the steering shaft)....easy to access and the speaker is right in front (below) you so you'll get a decent sound and that way you get to keep your ash tray

[Rossco]

I put mine on the passengers side tunnel. Easy to read and switch channel, may look like its a little in the way but I've never had anyone knock it or complain. Plus it makes the passengers side a perfect place to put ya xxxx

[ChrisRinai]

mines mounted here, seems to work well and it's out of the way enough, plus being such a small unit helps:

[oz17ub]

how do you find the 3100 chris,good unit...
im hanging to play around with it.

[Zook_Fan]

Rossco wrote:

I put mine on the passengers side tunnel. Easy to read and switch channel, may look like its a little in the way but I've never had anyone knock it or complain. Plus it makes the passengers side a perfect place to put ya xxxx

I had mine in the same spot, car slipped into a deeper rut than I knew was there and the uhf quickly copped a lot of water straight to the back of the unit. It died

ChrisRinai wrote:

mines mounted here, seems to work well and it's out of the way enough, plus being such a small unit helps:

Replaced mine with the same unit, GME 3100, and put it in the same spot. Love the positioning and the unit is good. Hand piece is a piece of crap though, but can be replaced with any late model GME microphones.

[Tyron]

lror have a mounting plate which bolts into the existing rear vision mirror holes.
I'm gonna get one soon.

[Jazzor]

Mines above my left knee, I believe where masterA was describing. Looks like it might get in the way but i don't hit my knee on it.

Before i had it on the passengers side but they kept hitting it, and i didn't have enough room between cd player > gear stick to put it there.




The roof idea is good but the hassle of running extra wires the whole way around the windscreen and trying to hide them didn't sound good to me.
It would probably work well with one of the minimal units with the remote face so you didn't have to route the aerial wire too.

[ChrisRinai]

oz17ub wrote:

how do you find the 3100 chris,good unit...
im hanging to play around with it.

good little unit i reckon, i chose it for the size mainly and what i was going to be doing with it, didnt need anything bigger etc. pretty easy to use and agreed on the handset, feels cheap and thin but again, for the amount of times i'm going to use mine it'll be fine.

cheers
Chris

[laurie]

mine is on a shelf above the windscreen
wiring was easy to hide as i have a hard top
just stuck em down beside the screen
cd is up there as well

[oz17ub]

howd u go about making the shelf laurie?

[laurie]

i made it using 12mm ply cut to size with a cut out for the mirror.
two bits of alloy u channel with a 12mm gap.
and two short 2mm steel strips 20mm wide bent into an L shape.
i screwed the u channel to the side of the car with self tappers.
i screwed the short metal strips above the windscreen about a third of the way from each side.
and removed the sun visors.

then i fitted the radio's after doing a cut out for the uhf speaker and ran the wires down the pillars put a timber edge on the front
and slid it into the u channel ( tight fit) when it was in place the front picked up the L shaped brackets.
then one screw into the u section each side to hold it.

i found that with a low front stuff bounced out when off road but a higher lip fixed that.
and with the shelf i did not need sun visors very much.
but i fabbed some 50mm ones up anyway as the stock ones don't fit very well on the shelf.
and are way too big when mounted lower.

bloody useful so much so i replicated the shelf at the back also

[shep]

On my old WT I threw the ash tray away and put the UHF in the hole. Was a perfect fit.

[jdk81]

shep wrote:

On my old WT I threw the ash tray away and put the UHF in the hole. Was a perfect fit.

+1

[Joshyboy26]

Have a look in my build thread theres a pic of it like that.^^

I just bent up a small piece of steel so it screwed into mounting 'tray' of the unit. and theres is a screwhole in the back of where the ash tray originally was. It is a bit of a prick to get to but it looks pretty neat once its in there.

[shakes]

my favourite spot is cut into the dash on the passenger side, maybe on stekky's build or an old UHF thread there is a couple photo's of it.