How A Garmin Friction Mount Could Save Your Bacon

How A Garmin Friction Mount Could Save Your Bacon

Let me tell you a little story, which will explain how a Garmin Friction Mount could not only save your bacon, but a ton of cash at the same time.

The guy in question doesn't want to be named, but we can call him Roger for the time being. His livelihood has depended for years on the need to drive lots and lots of miles throughout the country. I won't give you any more specifics, because any more detail might make him traceable, and this story is too embarrassing for that.

The need to drive means that Roger historically needed to be able to read maps to get to where he wants to be. Sadly, Roger is not very good at reading maps. So the advent of the Sat Nav was like the first dawn of spring to him and he threw himself wholeheartedly at the new technology.

Unfortunately, Roger is not very technical either, so a GPS caused as many problems for him as it solved. Having got the rudiments right, he could get basic information from the unit, but any tweaking was not something he could do easily. Roger's lack of practical skills also mean that the sat nav was not set on his dashboard properly, and it slid to the floor at an inopportune moment. Roger forgot to stop before retrieving it, and drove straight into the back of 4x4 owned by a local celebrity.

Not one to be downhearted, Roger decided to get some glue and fixed the GPS onto his dash. His first effort resulted in the unit being outside tweaking distance. Roger lived with his own folly, until an altercation with a parked car in mid tweak forced Roger to reconsider his actions.

Having learned important lessons from his previous failures, Roger carefully measured the distance between his seat and the optimum position on the dash for the sat nav, and reset the unit in a better position.

Here is a video that shows off a Garmin friction mount

Success! A whole month went by of successful navigating, before the unit was stolen from his car. His employers were rapidly losing patience, and it was only Roger's offer of footing the bill that saved his job.

In desperation, Roger asked his wife to trawl the net and to see if there was a solution to his predicament; one that would leave him employed, yet that would also allow him to retain a sat nav, which had proved its value to him in the preceding months.

The answer arrived in the form of a Garmin Friction Mount. This little baby only cost a few dollars, yet allowed Roger the freedom to place the Sat Nav wherever he wanted on his dashboard, and yet gave him the flexibility to remove the unit whenever we wasn't in the car.

Roger is happily still employed and is actually working more efficiently as a result of his expensive, painful but otherwise rewarding experience.