I drive a Toyota Tacoma 4x4. I originally bought the TF-HL-97 several years ago. Worked OK for the road, but not off-roading. When it finally failed, I was looking for a replacement unit and saw this model. While designed for motorcycle use, the full cradle keeps the phone in place regardless of the vehicle movement through spring tension. Because it is designed for Motorcycle use, the power cord is built in, so I must work around that, but it comes with a USB-A connector, so I just need to rework how my wiring runs since my old one used USB-C. Because its spring loaded (vs my old motorized one) it should last quite a while. Additionally, it has a mounting system designed to take the shock and micro-movement from Motorcycles (and off-roading) and is much less likely to suffer from the problem I had with the old unit where the ball-socket kept loosening up from the main charger.
While I haven’t taken it off-road yet, I can tell from the construction and mounting that it will be much more stable AND able to hold the phone under the bouncing conditions. This will make it MUCH EASIER to use my mapping software since I won’t have to find where my phone bounced off to anymore.
The cradle worked fine with my existing mounting system. My original has a 2” arm from the ball mount on my dash, then a barbell from the arm to the ball socket on my original cradle. Because this one has the ball instead of a socket, I just removed the barbell from the extension arm and placed the cradle ball mount in the extension arm instead. Mount has been rock solid.