Not sure which ebay item you bought, I've a Gecko Sticky Pad which is very good they cost about £6 on ebay. Got mine free at a trade fair a couple of years ago and still Ok. 2015 BMW
2012 Freelander 2 GS Red (gone)
2004 Discovery TD5 Landmark Silver (gone)
2000 Freelander XEDi Red (gone)
1996 Discovery 300TDi S Blue (gone)

Hutch41 wrote:

No.....the double sided Scotch tape didn't work either.

Absolutely NOTHING will stick to this Freelander dashboard !

I think I'm going to go with superglue......

Make sure you don't cover the passenger airbag with any mat or other device! Rather than use superglue, I'd consider stick-on velcro. You might have a better chance of cleaning it off come sales time. The dash on mine has faded a bit, so any item you glue on would likely leave a mark after a year or two anyway.

I have superglued the sat nav disc to the underside of the cubbyhole (where sat nav would go on higher spec models). This allows me to use the sat nav, when not in use the sat nav is taken off but the cubby hole can be used at all times. The disc that is glued on cannot been seen and should not effect the value when sold ( my first Freelander was sold with this in place and the dealer did not notice it ).
This was my solution to placing the sat nav as I did not what to stick on the windscreen or on the top of the dash. Second Freelander 2, first time ever that I have replaced like for like.

Past master wrote:

Make sure you don't cover the passenger airbag with any mat or other device!

Good point! bit of a sod if your air bag saves you getting your face bashed in but you end up choking on your mobile phone

Hey GWO.....that sounds like the best idea yet.

Just checked and my old TomTom Go mount is too bulky to fit in even with the cubby hole rubber mat taken out.

Please tell me which mount and satnav you use and I'll buy one

Thank you David Hutchinson

Do a search - several people have fitted satnavs to the cubby hole, some looking very professional indeed. I just keep a cheap Garmin Nüvi in there, with the lead threaded through one of the holes in the base of the cubby hole and a hinged bracket I bought off Amazon to hold it in place. There's a photo in my gallery. But others have done much more exciting things.
Edit - Done the search for you:

https://www.freel2.com/forum/topic2585.html?highlight=satnav
https://www.freel2.com/gallery/index.php?cat=12295

And this: http://www.freel2.com/forum/topic7943.html

Hutch41 wrote:

Yes I cleaned it all with white spirit but NOTHING will bloody stick.

I bet you're all sick of my whingeing.........lol

Tomorrow morning I'm supergluing the 3 inch diameter TomTom mounting disc to the dash and that's that !!

Thank for all your suggestions fellas......in two years time I'll probably be back bellyaching that the dealer has knocked £500 off the trade-in value because of "dashboard abuse"