Garmin’s RV GPS lineup has been around long enough that there are now two very different generations sitting in dashboards across the country. The older units — the RV 660LMT, 760LMT, and 770LMT-S — use a 17mm ball mount system. The newer units — the RV 890, 895, 1090, and
Waze changed the way people think about GPS. A free app with real-time traffic, constant updates, and a massive user base made it easy to leave a dedicated GPS behind. A lot of drivers did exactly that. But that does not mean dedicated GPS units like Garmin are obsolete. In
The Garmin bean bag mount has been around since the early days of GPS navigation, and despite everything that has changed in automotive tech, it is still one of the easiest and most practical mounting solutions available. Check the photo below? That’s a Garmin Nuvi 350 seated upon the bean
The mounting industry does not have an official standard but the AMPS pattern might be as close as you can get (at least for small electronics). The AMPS pattern is a series of four holes aligned in a rectangular pattern. Some manufacturers use two of the four holes while maintaining
Garmin makes some of the toughest handheld GPS devices on the market. The Montana, eTrex, GPSMAP, and inReach series go places where phones do not — deep backcountry, offshore, ATV trails, hunting land, and remote expedition routes where satellite coverage is the only connection to the outside world. Getting one
Garmin has been making automotive GPS devices for over 25 years, and across that time their mounting system has stayed remarkably consistent. Whether you have a Nuvi from 2009 or a DriveSmart from last year, the mount interface is almost certainly the same which is a 17mm ball connection called