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    Default Suction Cups have lost their suction

    The suction cups from Bell have lost their ability to stay on the windshield. Has anyone else experienced this and found a way to recondition them? Thanks. Search didn't help, but that may be my fault.

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    Default Re: Suction Cups have lost their suction

    Quote Originally Posted by gsedan
    The suction cups from Bell have lost their ability to stay on the windshield. Has anyone else experienced this and found a way to recondition them? Thanks. Search didn't help, but that may be my fault.
    Drop them in a pot of boiling water for a few moments, fish them out and let them cool and then use them.

    This should help, well it does for me on my V1 after a few years of always being on the windshield they flatten out. I would think they are made of the same material.

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    another option I found is had some industrial strength Velcro that I had picked up at Wal-Mart and cut it out the shape of the mount and mounted my detector to the windshield this way. I have had it up there for over a month now and no vibration against the windshield or nothing and works far better than any suction cups.

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    Repost. This has been discussed repeatedly and at length lately.
    http://www.radardetector.net/viewtopic.php?t=22394

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    another option I found is had some industrial strength Velcro that I had picked up at Wal-Mart and cut it out the shape of the mount and mounted my detector to the windshield this way. I have had it up there for over a month now and no vibration against the windshield or nothing and works far better than any suction cups.

    I have tried this and it works much better than u would think.. If I had to mount on the winshield this would be the ticket. Im a commercial driver so I cant have mine on display lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by djrams80
    Repost. This has been discussed repeatedly and at length lately.
    [url ops: ]http://www.radardetector.net/viewtopic.php?t=22394[/url]
    Thanks to all. My search technics need work

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    You can buy suction cups (same size) at a craft store and they may even have them in the Wal-Mart craft dept. They'll have a small metal hook on the non-suction cup side but that twists right off.

 

 

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