Customer Reviews

Garmin Suction Cup Mount for Nuvi (010-10723-03)

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This suction cup mount is absolutely horrible. I shouldn't say that...it's fantastic for about 3 weeks, then it's all down hill. Mine held great for about 3 weeks, then kept falling off with the sun pounding down on it. I cleaned the windshield and cleaned the suction cup, still falls off. Then yesterday my wife wanted to borrow it so I went to take it off my windshield and what do I find? The suction cup was literally glued to my windshield. It came off in pieces, and there's many stuck to the windshield still. Now of course it won't work at all. It isn't like I live in Nevada or something, where it's 110 degrees every day in the summer, to deteriorate the material (not that it should then either). This thing is made of some CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP material. Unbelievable. I've had my radar detector mounted on the windshield for 4 years. It's fallen off only a handful of times (maybe twice). So this thing gets 1 star. Only because I can't give it zero stars. It's too bad I can't find some other brand that makes one, because this thing is absolute JUNK and a waste of $$.

Once this mount gets hot in the sunlight, the rubber adhers to the glass. To get it off you will probably rip part of the rubber off and the whole thing will lose it's ability to create good suction for the next install. My recommendation is mount it once and don't move it again or you will make a $30 mistake just as I did.

An alternative for moving mounts from vehicle to vehicle I use is the automotive mount (dash style) adding my own velcro for use with rental cars. Replacing velcro is much cheaper than replacing the window mount.Garmin Automotive Mount for Nuvi (010-10723-04)

don't bother with this. As mentioned before, the rubber from the cup melted onto the windshield. It took forever for me to get the darn thing off the windshield. After getting it off, I still had to used a razor blade to get the rest of the black rubber off the glass. And there is still a slight black circle there. This happened in April in Michigan.
I will admit, before it melted, the location and flexibilty of the mount was great.

I bought my wife a Nuvi 350 for her birthday last August (overall, we love the Nuvi, but the mount...no). The biggest "advantage" of the Nuvi over other GPS systems is its portability. Unfortunately, the suction cup appears to have been designed to subvert this feature. The cup sticks to the first window it is attached to very well...and then won't let go. When we tried to transfer it (after being attached only a couple of days), it left pieces of itself to the windshield and was very difficult to reattach to another windshield (though with difficulty and repeated tries, we have been able to move it).

What this means is that you need a mount for each car you want to use this in. The mount and the charging/power wire (which you will also need since it is cumbersome to remove from the mount) are pretty darn expensive ($60-70) which is ridiculous for a "portable" system!

If yours sticks to your windshield and self destructs when you try and take it off call Garmin and request a new one. They sent me one with the improved suction cup under warranty. Examining the two side by side reveals a definite change in the material they are using for the suction cup. Hopefully this fixes the problem. So far so good one week on the windshield in 90+ heat and came right off when I released suction. This mount is great otherwise. Very flexible and holds the unit securely.

I have gone through 2 of these suction mounts and need to find an alternative to mounting my Nuvi 350. I live in Ohio where it's sunny about a dozen days a year and the cheap rubber that the suction is made of melts to the windshield. Forget trying to move device to other car with suction mount. You have to literally rip the suction off the windshield. Then it's completely useless. Worked great, until I wanted to use it somewhere else. You might as well glue it to your windshield, or not use the suction mount when temp is over 60 degrees.

It's a real shame that one has to go out and buy these suction cups after spending several hundred dollars on the Nuvi. Yet, the cubs quickly become fused to the windshield (no matter what season), and if removed often, they quickly lose their stick. Thus, if you want to move the Nuvi between cars (the only advantage over having a built-in GPS system), then you must buy extra cups for each car. I found Garmin impossible to contact!

Believe what you have read; this thing doesn't work very well. It does stick great for about a week and then, one day, you will find your GPS unit sitting on the floor of the car with a giant black circle of rubber particles on your windshield. When you look at the suction cup, you will see a bunch of holes where the rubber particles (on your windshield) used to be.

The only thing that works for a while on windshield is a silicone rubber suction cup and even those go bad over time. At least with those, however, they don't melt all over your windshield. This thing is some kind of black rubbery stuff that just doesn't last.

After leaving this on my windshield for only 7 weeks I had to remove it with a razor blade. It had melted itself to the windshield. I live in Michigan, this definately shouldn't happen in these temps.

The suction cup mount is a 'TEMPORARY' mount. I've had my garmin for seven months; as far as the suction mount, it seems to work fine when I've used it in rental cars and in my friends cars. BUT: Clean it with water ONLY (and I'm guessing clean the windshield with water in the section you will be adhering the suction cup too as well). Anything else may change the chemical structure of the suction cup, I'm guessing what others may have experienced, and cause it to deteriorate. Take the mount off of the windshield when you're not using it and put it someplace out of direct sunlight. Leaving it in the sun is apparently just asking for trouble. If you want to leave a mount on the windshield permanently, get the dashboard mount with the permanent adhesive disk, use some acetone to remove the white 'Garmin' logo and locking info and it won't be very obvious what the oval black disk is for. Also, if you have an SUV with a visor, put the mount under the visored section of the windsheild where it doesn't get too hot. As far as the GPS nuvi unit, it's fantastic.