I'd love to just solder up a custom cable, but the difficulty is that I can't probe the damn tiny contacts in the USB C plugs, and OTG uses a pin that isn't connected to one of the normal four wires you get in a standard USB cable...
I think if I was gonna do it, I'd need an old USB C jack cut out of something (it's a bit soon for me to have any dead USB C stuff lying around), and I'd probably need to hack up the plug to get access to the frikken tiny contact, and probably need to use a surface mount resistor (so I don't have something relatively huge hanging off something tiny), and dig up some epoxy or something to make it robust... (In case you weren't aware, the OTG standard uses a couple of different resistor values between a certain pin and ground to tell the phone or tablet whether it's the power source or if it should take power. And it changed from Micro USB to USB C, and that certain pin wouldn't get a pass through anyway, so a physical adapter alone won't cut it.)
So hopefully the USB C OTG hub that'll turn up soon will do it. Bloody hard to find specifics about what happens with power on this stuff.
Anyway, got a 90° USB C adapter which got some dremel love, and the phone is nicely mounted now. At least now I can plug it in via a plain OTG adapter and it stays connected without intermittently dropping out like it was doing before it was mounted. Got the power side half sorted; I cut up ciggie lighter adapter (which had QC3 USB A and 3.4A USB C and USB A), removed the 3.4A USB A jack and hung it off a bit of wire, leaving the other two jacks available inside the centre console. There's a USB lead running along under the console up to the phone, ready to provide power, with the other end of it ziptied to the loom next to the connector for the console wiring. It's pretty neat now.
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The missus' hot glue gun was indispensable! That rubbery plastic the little blanking plate is made out of just told super glue to fuck right off, and there was no other way to hold the circuit board that wasn't going to be a massive hassle, but this was a piece of piss! Took a bit of head-scratching to get access to this spot, though...
MINI HOW-TO FOR REMOVING CENTRE CONSOLE:* On a manual, pop up the gear lever surround. Not sure what you do on an auto.
* Grab the front of the handbrake boot cover, pull it up and unclip along its length, then pull the boot off over the lever.
* There are four screws: two just behind the gear lever, and one on each side at the back of the console under some little covers, you'll need to move the seats forward to access them.
* Once the screws are out, there are just two clips behind the gear lever holding it in. You need to use a fair bit of force on these, just pull upwards.
* Then you just tip it back, after finagling it over the handbrake, and unplug the loom from the back.
* To get the bin out, first remove the lid. There are three screws on the hinge, then it takes a bit of manipulation to unhook the hinge.
* This reveals a couple of clips. Between that spot and the cupholder on the back, there's a little blanking plate, looks like it should be an ashtray but it's not. pop that out and remove the screw underneath, then the back section comes off when you undo the clips.
* Under the console, there are four screws holding the bin in, up around the top, you'll need a decent length screwdriver.