I really hope someone knows what to do here. As you can see both the plastic tabs broke off this morning and now it wont hold into the mount. These tabs are part of the case and cant come off. They are part of the entire rear case it seems. Does anyone know how to sort this at all please?
by Im-grand-thanks
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File or cut the broken nub flat and buy the sticky garmin mounts from aliexpress/amazon that have the 3m double sided tape and stay on very well.
You can either stick a bit on the side to replace the missing tab, or that locking feature is just glued on so you can get a replacement one for a garmin/ wahoo/ bryton etc and swap it out.
~~3D scan it with your smartphone. And hire a engineer guy on fiverr to 3D model you a case with combined materials of glass fiber reinforced nylon for the back piece and rubber sleeve out of TPU. 3D print it at pcbway.~~
follow u/Nuffsaid98 video!
You cannot fix this – glue will never work. Can you buy a new outer housing?
I ended up getting some adaption peice online. Ill have to file off the current peice and superglue the new on one. Hopefully it holds. Thanks for the ideas
Same happened to my Garmin Varia but thankfully I got it swapped by Amazon.
It’s a poor design as that puts quite a bit of stress on those tabs when fitting or when near a saddle bag.
It’s dead Jim time to give it a dignified funeral.
garmin 540 comes with removable rear part. just 2 screws
Try to reach out to the manufacturer. Maybe they can offer something to you.
Lezyne replaced the whole outside body on my head unit when the same thing happened, free of charge.