Wireless Car Charger Mount

The wireless charger in my car doesn’t perform that great (as is the case with many car chargers) and it’s located in a place where I would like to use for storage rather than keeping it empty in the off-chance I want/need to charge my phone.

The central armrest has plenty of space and a USB-C port so my plan was to purchase a tray that fits in the storage area and create a secondary wireless charger inside the armrest.

Knowing that the phone fits with about 10mm to spare, there wasn’t much room to have the charger and the cable sit nicely in the space.  I first designed the charging “mount” that would sit in the desired tray area but would then route the cable through the tray and have it out of view.

I then cut away at the tray to a) make a hole so the cable could be routed through and to b) let a 90-degree USB-C adapter fit at the connection point. 

Lastly, rather than leave the cable loose underneath the tray, I designed a simple cable management to keep it organized. 

Once I was happy with the overall size and shape, I 3D printed the parts.

The dots/channels on the underside of the parts were used for glue placement/management.   I used a sacrificial gluing surface for the wireless charger as I wanted to test the efficiency of the new setup.   Once I’ve done enough testing, I will likely swap it out to the other textured pieces. All in all, a very simple modification that looks quite OEM.

 

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Wireless Charger Mount
Cable Management