Bracketron Pro-Mount Xl, Bracketron BT1-514-1

This is my third purchase of this product, and I finally bought two of them so I don't have to keep moving it between my two vehicles. My first one was purchased years ago at a truck stop. A little over a year later, I broke it when mounting it to my windshield as I pushed to hard on the lever. My last one, I broke trying to adjust the angle at which it held my phone. Both of these were my fault and did not have anything to do with defects in the mounts. I like to protect my phones so I purchase cases that do not allow me to use any of the magnets or vent mount systems. The phone and the case weigh too much for those mounts, plus adding the case has made the phone too thick to use those systems. The Bracketron Pro-Mount XL Windshield Mount holds my phone without any problems. I have used it to hold an iPad air when traveling to allow me to see more of the map, but it does block the windshield of my Rogue quite a bit. I will continue to use the Bracketron Pro-Mount XL Windshield Mount as long as I am able to replace them. The suction cup on this device is a lot better than all of the others I have tried. It even holds better between the hot and cold temperatures where I live, but it will still fall off which is not as often as the other mounts that I have tried. I just clean the window where I attach the mount and put it back. I really like the rugged construction of this mount. On the other two, it was my brute force that broke them.

Works with home patrol2 2 scanner

Could have used a slightly longer arm, but, aside from that.....good product.

Bracketron makes great phone/tablet mounts for the car. I've owned several at this point and a common and consistent problem I have found is the internal gears (plastic) tend to fail rather quickly. After the last one failed I took it apart and fixed it myself-obviously you shouldn't have to do this but..... The cheap plastic gears that open and close the width of the cradle fail and it's very frustrating when you can't push the release button and have the cradle width open wider to remove your phone. It's like it's locked in the cradle. You can easily remove it but now you have no adjustability and the tighter you squeeze it the smaller the phone opening gets and you can't manually re-open it. I think some aluminum gears would be better and last longer. Their design otherwise is awesome, they thought of some little things like the swivel feet at the base of your phone on cradle and more adjustable features than I have seen on other phone mounts. Sides of the cradle are adjustable both laterally and vertically (for taller devices). Suction mount cup is crazy strong. Never had it fall off windshield and I drive professionally about 60k miles/ yr. I have a second one that I epoxied a circular magnet from Harbor Freight to the suction cup for a permanent bond and I use that one in the rear of the van magnetically mounted to van wall for watching Netflix before bed. Works awesome and has great flexibility/adjustability/articulation.

Does not hold phone.Have to continually squeeze the handle to keep phone mounted