TomTom Sat Nav Adhesive Dashboard Mount 4.3,5,6" models: Start, Via, GO, GO Basic/Classic/Essential/Discover, GO Expert, GO Camper Tour (check compatibility list below)

This item is a heavy weight base covered in fabric and with a rubberised base. There's a centre section which is made of high-gloss, hard plastic. The best fixing is obtained if you lick (or lick your finger and wipe) the rigid plastic surface and the suction cup on your sat nav so they're both wet, then start with the suction cup on your sat nav set to "unlocked", bring the two items together and turn the suction cup to "locked".Provides am excellent fixing strength in my opinion and you can even be quite rough with the angle adjustment of your sat nav and it still stays stuck. I'm using it with a 5" sat nav but I'd say the fixing strength will more than cope with 6" and 7" sat navs too.My car has has a flat dash board section next to the instrument cluster, so this item sits there perfectly flat. It doesn't move about thanks to its weight and the rubberised underside.Another plus point is that if you're not sticking the sat nav to your screen then you're not obscuring your view of the road (the police can and do stop and prosecute you if you have the item stuck to your windscreen in such a way that you've created a blind spot). I.e. it prevents accidents.In addition, you're not leaving suction-cup marks on your windscreen (or the plastic screen in front of your instrument binnacle, which I've seem some people use to fix the sat nav) so no-one knows you've got a sat nav (potentially left in the glove box) if they come sniffing round your car when you're away from it.The only downside I'd say is that eventually, the rubberised base starts to show significant marks and small chips in the rubberised coating as if it is starting to perish, but honestly I can say it takes several years for this to be significant and it never gets to the point where it becomes a problem or the product isn't useable.I'd say if your dashboard has a large rolled top, or the rake angle of your windscreen is very shallow, then this may not be the right item for you as it'll end up just being balanced/perched and may not be as stable as it can be, particularly if your windscreen angle is shallow and you can't push the item far back towards the windscreen so it stays put and doesn't fall forward. I think most people will be able to make use of this product though. I have seen this base used in new (2017+) cars with rolled/soft moulded dash boards and it still seems to fit well enough.My favourite fixing method, so I'm giving it 5 stars for everything as it does everything really well with no drawbacks.

Ok works well

Arrived very promptly. Seems rather expensive for what it is BUT I am hoping it may solve the problem of very poor grip I experienced with the swivel ball and suction method supplied with my TomTom Start 50. Have noted the many comments and suggestions to try and cure on poor TomTom grip. So only 3 stars until fully evaluated.Regards DBSNow used and evaluated so here are my observations. Have uprated from 3 to 4 stars. Because of the shape of my lower dimpled dash I was not convinced the sticky base would be totally effective so purchased one black plastic circular dash mount which has a much larger sticky base. This was fixed to the lower dash and the base of the universal mount fixed to that and left for 48 hours to see if it remained in situ. It did. I clicked on the ball joint and slotted the claw into the base. Fitted well. I then did a journey over smooth and bumpy minor roads of some 50 miles in very hot conditions. Deep joy everything stayed in place. The whole shebang was not as intrusive as my previous bean bagbase, which although it stayed in place failed 75% of the time to hold onto the TomTom sucker.Only criticisms are that there should be a little more friction where the claw on the ball mount part fits into the circular base. Over bumpy roads one can hear a little rattle and the Sat Nav can swivel slightly to face another direction. Overall well pleased but I would not and one should not obscure ones windscreen by fitting this combination.. So far so good but now one waits to see how the adhesion performs when freezing weather returns.

The screen mount for my TomTom Go 620, after many years of use was worn out, and would no longer remain stuck to the windscreen of my car, so I bought this replacement.It was delivered the following day.For it's 1st outing I drove from near London to Glasgow and back, and it behaved perfectly, sticking solidly to the screen and holding the TomTom rock steady.I could not ask for more.

For a fraction of the price of a new unit.The actual product is overpriced for what it is and has inherent design faults that lead it to fail.But if I can get another 3-4 years out of the unit then it isn't too bad to stomach.After 3 1/2 years the mount socket failed, the original cable went last year, so I filed the mount to allow direct plug in to the back of the Tom Tom.This worked for a while but between loose micro usb cables - badly designed retaining clips that become depressed - and the unit socket it started to power off as the cable wasn't charging properly or just shifted from vibration, to the point it couldn't even boot.Having researched - it is why C replaced micro usb, after a certain number of connections it fails, somewhere between 1000 and 5000, which an average user shouldn't theoretically ever reach.So this is the last attempt before a whole new unit and having worked I can stop using my phone as an inadequate replacement.Hopefully the next time I get a whole new unit micro usb will have been totally replaced by C.TLDR - you can try all the things suggested in videos and articles for fixing a loose micro usb socket, ultimately you have to replace it.

It works fine so far. It was very easy to install. The real test will be in the summer when my dashboard gets boiling hot but thus far, it’s held my TomTom in place without any issues.