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2024 Toyota Corolla Scanner Radio Setup

UsmanChohan

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Hi, been a long time lurker on this fourm, just recently bought a 2024 Toyota Corolla and looking for suggestions for mounting my multiple radios I possess, I have a Uniden SDS 100, a few Baofeng UV 5Rs and two Uniden Bearcats BC125 AT as well, in my older car a 2007 Lexus Rx 350 I placed my SDS 100s and UV 5Rs on the passenger visor and stuck it there with Velcro as for the Uniden Bearcat 15 ATs I put them in Cup Holders. This new car I want more neat setup.

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New Car Interior

Old Car with Setup
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slowmover

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Five (5) radios?

For some vehicles are laptop stands (two-bolt; have seen some modified with third leg for stability) which could be modified from its “plate” holder to build a tree to hold devices.

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Mounts by RAM and LIDO are where I’d actually start. Several and to include use of the back of the center arm console.

Where to have power enter the passenger compartment (at a 12V Distribution Panel; etc) and How to Route looks to be the painstaking part.

My experience is that the 12V power after panel should be built as a harness which can be installed/removed as a single component despite a number of “legs” for best long-term reliability. Similar to how the factory would do it.

This justified the purchase of Anderson Power Pole tools & supply, for me. A short pigtail for each device. If I moved something then an intermediate jumper to cover increased distance was E-Z.

Alternately, power distributed from a RigRunner entails more wires, but can simplify planning as it’s then a fused circuit to each device.

Marine-Grade wiring (type; highly flexible, tin-coated pure copper) plus Blue Sea components to manage 12V has proven successful.

Getting wiring run under cover (hidden, plus inside split-loom conduit) so that it presents no hazard of snagging by its presence is where measure, measure, measure will come in.

While I’m not familiar enough to say what brand or type, fewer radios with expanded capabilities to reduce total number will be the best first step.

Good luck.

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