New Mount from Brodit

wez99 · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:08 pm Post subject: New Mount from Brodit

A new Mount for TTG just released today, you can see it at
http://www.brodit.se/images/215027.jpg
No prices as yet Smile

Cheers
John
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Darren · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:26 pm Post subject:

Excellent, thanks for the heads up on that Smile

How did you find that? I was only talking with Brodit yesterday and they never mentioned it!

Anyways, that looks like a neat solution that allows you to mount it lower down and nearer.
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wez99 · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:33 pm Post subject:

I e-mailed them a few weeks ago and they said they were working on a prototype.
I did a follow up mail last night (5/10/04) to see how things were developing and they replied today with the link.
John
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Darren · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject:

Ah, it's still in design then? I have posted a front page news item anyway so thanks for the information Thumbs Up

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OZ · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 165

Glad to see they took up my design

Dave · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:14 pm Post subject:

Personally I don't like the look of the mount. The mount itself I suspect cannot be flawed, but the TomTom GO base mount can. The base pivet that the meta screw thread goes through there's two flat horizontal pieces of plastic. These aren't that sturdy and I'd hate to try and mount the weight of a GO on these alone. This is going to be the single stress point on the mount and IMO would be liable to break.

Nothing wrong with the Brodit mount per se, it's the GO part it's going to use I don't think will be sturdy enough to hold up. Time will tell though...

Darren · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:20 pm Post subject:

I see your point but given that Brodit had to utilise the existing GO Mount Base because of the connections it contains I don't see that they had any other option.

Anyway, based on previous Brodit mounts I don't think they would under engineer it, I've never had any problems with any previous mounts, they're over engineered if anything and I can't imagine they would release one with a weak point.

You need to be weaned off those vent mounts, time you got proper ones ;)
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OZ · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 165

Couldn,t agree more Darren, i have used the mount i designed since the beginning very,very, very similar to the Brodit one i wonder where they got the idea from?, but contrary to what Dave reckons, after being used everyday up and down the nations motorways it has never broken or sagged on the mount, in short it works perfectly, so i see no reason to suspect the Brodit version will be any different.
Time will tell.

wez99 · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject:

Have you any photos Oz or perhaps drawings for construction

Cheers

John
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OZ · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 165

Hi john, i think Mike posted some in the tomtom go review page earlier this year, try around about page 9 or so.
Apart from the plate Brodit have, the fundamental parts are along the same lines. Not bad for 20 minutes thought. Laughing

OZ · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 165

Humble apologies, it was Darren who posted the photos for me.
Sorry Darren, but it was a while ago.

Darren · Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject:

Not a problem, I'd quite forgotten! To save others hunting, they are on this page.
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NickDelion · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 08, 2004 Posts: 26

Hi All,

The mount is now available at http://www.brodit.com. Follow 'Products for communications equipment', brand 'TomTom', Model 'GO'.

Nick Delion
www.mijntomtomgo.nl

Dave · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:26 pm Post subject:

EastUpper · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 02, 2004 Posts: 11

I'm still buying one though! I hate having things suckered to the window. Ordered from Nemesis GB and should be here next week. I'll let you know how it goes. If anyone gets one sooner i'm sure we'd be interested to no if it turns out to be any good...

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