Windscreen mount keeps falling off

street · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 15, 2007 Posts: 11

anyone else had this problem? is it possible to buy better suckers?

mostdom · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject:

Not uncommon so here are some things to try in the meantime.

Things to try:-
-Clean glass and sucker - a greasy window or sucker won't stick.
-Place only on a flat piece of glass - sucker doesn't like severe curves.
-Press firmly - Sucker needs a good seal to hold.
-Faulty sucker - replace sucker
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Border_Collie · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject:

Which model was it that required a double 'click' to lock to the window?

mwfox · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: Sucker

I find wetting the sucker seems to stop it falling off.

mikealder · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject:

crypticx · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 06, 2008 Posts: 57

whats the best make
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DennisN · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:36 pm Post subject:

I climbed the walls and tore my hair out for a week with one of my TomToms. I eventually discovered that I was trying to get it really close to the bottom of the windscreen, where I had a dark border all round the windscreen, made up from small dots of black (paint?). Those dots were negating the seal, which needs to be flat(ish) sucker to flat(ish) glass.
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JimmyTheHand · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 16, 2005 Posts: 386

yes - to repeat as others say, I clean windscreen and sucker periodically and damp the sucker when reattaching it - I usually leave it on at home/work, but remove it when in more public places
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MrT · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:38 pm Post subject:

I use a sucker onto "bean bag" type Arkon mount and I got so sick of it coming unstuck, I glued it to the mount.
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Guivre46 · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:06 pm Post subject:

Same old advice; lever operated suckers give best adhesion, and the bigger the sucker the better. Arkon and Herbert Richter are the ones I know best and Buybits does several that seem to be their own spec.
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Wendolene · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 8:49 am Post subject:

I found that a six inch nail through the centre of the mount will did the trick. Very Happy

Seriously, DennisN is spot on with his comments. The same applied to me in my Picasso. It has to be placed on a clean, not 'painted' section of glass.
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