A while back, we bought a Garmin Streetpilot c330 before a long car trip. We’ve been reasonably happy with the maps in the unit, though my ideal navigation product would include live updates to maps and points of interest when I plugged the unit in to my computer to charge it. <\/p>\n
However, the vehicle mount adapter has been nothing but trouble since we bought the unit. The original windshield suction cup mount that came in the box was flaky; the contacts between the cradle and the unit were flaky, so the unit wouldn’t receive power from the vehicle mount cable. The sent me a new one without any trouble but a phone call, so again, Garmin support comes through. <\/p>\n
Now the replacement cable they sent has started to fray at the mount end<\/a> of the cable. It still powers the unit, but won’t charge it. Replacements cost between $30 and $50, depending on where you buy. I wonder if these windshield mounts are a flawed design, since this is the 2nd failure I’ve had in that part in a year and a half. I wonder if the power cable portion of the dashboard friction mount is better-designed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A while back, we bought a Garmin Streetpilot c330 before a long car trip. We’ve been reasonably happy with the maps in the unit, though my ideal navigation product would include live updates to maps and points of interest when … Continue reading
![fray at the mount end<\/a> of the cable. It still powers the unit, but won’t charge it. Replacements cost between $30 and $50, depending on where you buy. I wonder if these windshield mounts are a flawed design, since this is the 2nd failure I’ve had in that part in a year and a half. I wonder if the power cable portion of the dashboard friction mount is better-designed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A while back, we bought a Garmin Streetpilot c330 before a long car trip. We’ve been reasonably happy with the maps in the unit, though my ideal navigation product would include live updates to maps and points of interest when … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"\/gallery2\/d\/5087-1\/garminWindshieldMount.jpg\"){kind=link}