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Jeffery Gormley (Long Beach, CA USA) –

  

I drove cross-country to relocate, and I needed to use a GPS, phone charger, and radar detector simultaneously, so I chose this 3-port adapter to replace my dual adapter from Radio Shack.

I viewed all the 3-port chargers I could find on Amazon, and I bought this one because it seemed to be higher quality than many others, and the price is very reasonable.

The adapter initially plugged into my car’s power port fine, but it tended to loosen occasionally, and I’d have to push it back in so the tip made contact.

It functioned perfectly for the first few days, but gradually, all three 12VDC power ports broke (I haven’t used the USB port). The ports are not very durable; the front plastic panel that holds the internal metal collars breaks, so the collars shift inside each port and lose electrical contact. The collars are not supported well at all, and repeated plugging and unplugging of devices caused them to fail. The extra tight fit to the power plugs only made it worse.

If you plug your cords in once and never remove them, I suppose this product would last a lot longer than two weeks.
I went back to the Radio Shack adapter, which has worked for two years and counting.

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