There are so many uses for duct tape – I’ve seen people fix car windows with it, make jackets out of it and even seen people pay $20 for a wallet made out of it. However, when it comes to mounting your Navigational GPS to your car’s dashboard there’s no place in that setup for duct tape.
If you want a real professional mount you can but on Amazon.com for pretty cheap. But be warned – some of the OEM mounts look clumsy and I’ve heard that others have a tendency to fall off the dashboard in warm weather.
There’s a product on the market made by 3M that will mount your GPS to your dash quick and easy. You can place it pretty much wherever you want and it’s not going to fall off very easy. I use this stuff to mount mine in my 4×4 Ford truck that I use on really bumpy back roads and my GPS has NEVER fallen off my dashboard. Removing my GPS from the dashboard is actually harder than I thought it’d be too, I’ve found that giving my GPS a little twist while pulling on it makes it easier to remove it.
The stuff I use to mount my GPS to my dashboard has been around since around 1941. The inventor actually had a hard time trying to bring it to market until the aerospace industry picked it up and started using it in the spacesuits that astronauts wear. Surprisingly this stuff is still quite cheap and not very high tech – you’ve probably used it before too!
I use a type of Velcro called 3M Dual Lock to mount my GPS to my dashboard. I like the stuff by 3M because it has a nice glue on it that sticks really good. There’s no point using Velcro to mount your GPS to your dashboard if you can’t get the Velcro to stick to the plastic – the glue on 3M’s Velcro works great.
When you want to remove the Velcro from your device or your dashboard you can usually carefully peel it off by picking at one corner of the Velcro tape and then washing off the glue using a microfiber cloth with some mineral oil (baby oil). It takes a bit of work to get the glue off but a good GPS mount is worth it – how often are you going to be changing cars anyways?
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