I have never used my ash tray. And I think it's pretty safe to say I will never use it. Have any of you come up with a cool mod in that area? I'd love to take it out, whic will give me some space, but have no idea what to put there.

Daniel

 

Mine is used as a good coin holder

 

I don't use mine either, but below the ashtry I put in a custom LCD outside temp display.



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i second that, i use mine for coins too. it's helped saved countless dollars from being broken at drive thrus.

 

Yep...#3 vote for change holder. Mine has about $3 in pennies in
it. I need to clean out the pennies, since I usually dig through them
to get to the "good" change.

~castrol

 

I use to use mine for coins until I had so many in there that everytime I hit a sizeable hole in the raod(a very common occurance here in NC) it would pop open and spew coins all over the cab. So I decided to scrap the coins and just put them in a bag in the glove box. But I really like the idea of the outside temp. thing that Jason rigged up. Jason did you ever do a write up on that mod?

 

I removed my ashtray and installed a 3gang cig lighter jack.Kewl thing about it the light for the ashtray is far enough foward that it lights the front of the jacks.

 

Stump, yes he did. Check out his website and there is a write up.

I also vote for coin holder! :fireman:

 

I use it to hold nut and bolts when I am wrenching on my rig!

 

i use mine as a cellphone holder. i just pop that sucker in there and its good to go.

 

i am putting an S-AFC in place of my ashtray soon.

 

Thats a neat idea actually...now I can have my cup holders free...

 

But if you use it as a coin holder, you have to make it sound technical. Like... Metallic Monetary Unit Storage Area! It sounds better that way! :fireman:

 

I dont know bout you guys, but i hate keeping change in my car. Too much noise, i hate the rattling. Can't stand any noise in my rurnner other than the radio and the engine.

 

another tally for a change holder, or whatever BTOWN called it. but i have seen guys take out their ash tray and put their CBs in that space.

 

Yup, coin holder...I even took it out and lined it with felt/velvet type material inside so the coins don't clink around w/the plastic when I hit bumps.

 

Mine has spare valve caps for the wheels, and misc. small sheet metal screws from projects.

If I need to ground a wire in the cab, I know where to get some small screws from.

 

I use the compartment to the left of my e-brake for my change. It's kind of deep and allows for easy coin storage. Do most of you all have this compartment too? I am not talking about the arm rest, I am talking about the well to the left of the arm rest and e-brake.

The only thing that I really have in my ash tray are gum wrappers.

 

I use that space you put your change (cyber) to hold my keys and sometimes my PDA fits in there as well, I don't think we keep anything in the ashtray, i'm trying to get rid of it and use it for something else, as soon as I figure out what to put there.

 

Man...I really agree with you on that one. Noise in my car drives me crazy! arg. But i use my ash try to hold my remote for my radio and i run the wire for my radar detector around it. works out pretty well.