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But seriously, phone holder on the windscreen. I’m never just sticking a new one on a screen!! Well maybe if it’s my car!! But I bought it to use in different vehicles. But can’t get the bastard thing off

Any ideas? I have ‘released’ the lever but the sucky thing refuses to come off HELP!!

Take it you've pulled the wee tab? Failing that, credit card slid under the rubber, you might have to get a bit forceful with it.

Or hot water poured on the outside of the windscreen where its attached.

Bigjawa wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:46 am Take it you've pulled the wee tab? Failing that, credit card slid under the rubber, you might have to get a bit forceful with it.

Or hot water poured on the outside of the windscreen where its attached.

Dammit!! Forgot about heat!!

I’ll have a go with a card in a bit. Being LHD it’s not so easy to get my left arm to it with any force, and at that angle the right doesn’t have any
I stupidly stuck it too low, so not only do I need to be able to transfer it to other vehicles, I can’t fit a coffee cup in the holder

Reet big 'ammer

Gently pulling the little tab should let some air in and make it drop off, was there a lever you pushed to make it stick?

We must all be getting old and boring.

Back in the old days there'd have been dozens of smutty replies about the thread title.

A Stanley knife blade inserted at a 20 degree (ish) angle should slide between window glass and suction cup and break the seal.

mangocrazy wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:38 pm A Stanley knife blade inserted at a 20 degree (ish) angle should slide between window glass and suction cup and break the seal.

Dude, you want to let the FUF loose with a Stanley knife?

It'd be carnage!

Bigjawa wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:51 pm

mangocrazy wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:38 pm A Stanley knife blade inserted at a 20 degree (ish) angle should slide between window glass and suction cup and break the seal.

Dude, you want to let the FUF loose with a Stanley knife?

It'd be carnage!

Yeah, fair cop. Forget I ever mentioned it...

Got an airline handy? Blast a jet of air between the cup and glass, failing that, a small thin screwdriver carefully pushed in to release the vacuum.

BartonBKing wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:44 pm Got an airline handy? Blast a jet of air between the cup and glass, failing that, a needle or toothpick carefully pushed in to release the vacuum.

FTFY

Has Noggin lost all her fingers and suffered multiple lacerations from a freakish accident with an exploding windscreen yet?

Yorick wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:27 pm We must all be getting old and boring.

Back in the old days there'd have been dozens of smutty replies about the thread title.

What's the French for double entendre?

Yorick wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:27 pm We must all be getting old and boring.

Back in the old days there'd have been dozens of smutty replies about the thread title.

I was waiting to see, but I am sadly disappointed!! You are all old and boring

Yorick wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:10 pm Reet big 'ammer

Not my vehicle

Mussels wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:23 pm Gently pulling the little tab should let some air in and make it drop off, was there a lever you pushed to make it stick?

Yes to the little lever, nope to the little tab letting air out! It was proper stuck! Like sticky stuck, not just sucky stuck!!

Potter wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:30 pm Did you stick it on?
Let’s hope it wasn’t stuck on by someone using super glue.

As people have said, pull the tab or slide something in if you can to break the seal.

Yup - just lil old me! Peeled the plastic off it and stuck it to the screen!!! Not convinced it is just vacuum, so the tab doesn't break a seal as such, but the card thing worked

Bigjawa wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:51 pm

mangocrazy wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:38 pm A Stanley knife blade inserted at a 20 degree (ish) angle should slide between window glass and suction cup and break the seal.

Dude, you want to let the FUF loose with a Stanley knife?

It'd be carnage!

It has been in the past! Luckily I didn't have one to hand And no shops open to stock up on dangerous implements! LOL

Anyway - your original suggestion worked, I used a couple of the work cards cos they are plastic and I didn't have anything credit card like in my purse that I could risk breaking!!



So, now I know how to get it off, I can, and I have all my fingers and no new damage to me

Yorick wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:27 pm We must all be getting old and boring.

Back in the old days there'd have been dozens of smutty replies about the thread title.

I did have my hopes raised on reading the title

Usually you can't get the fucking things to stay on!

Nuke the thing from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure……

All the ones i have had had a little lever you pushed to release the suction then pull that little tab. See this one says lock on the middle lever.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81j ... L1500_.jpg

dental floss

ninja wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:05 pm Usually you can't get the fucking things to stay on!

LOL I've had some like that, this one is the total opposite!!

Felix wrote: Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:00 pm All the ones i have had had a little lever you pushed to release the suction then pull that little tab. See this one says lock on the middle lever.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81j ... L1500_.jpg

This has that, but the base is proper sticky. Usually the ones I've had have been plastic and rely on the suction bit to keep them in place (so a lot fall off, as above!!). This one is full on proper sticky!! Better than the falling off ones, well, now I know how to get it off the screen!!