PolarSoft Strap Set

Excellent replacement for the Garmin soft strap supplied with my Garmin 310XT GPS watch. After a few weeks the heart rate signal started to drop out. I replaced the battery, tried electro gel etc all without success. Research on the Internet advised to buy the Polar strap , which I did. Works brilliantly. No need to buy the transmitter (the hard rectangular bit) as the Garmin transmitter clips directly onto the Polar replacement strap. Likewise no need to pair it again. My thanks to Polar and to those who posted the solution on the Internet. Garmin really should sort this problem out as I shouldn't have had to buy a replacement on something only a few weeks old. The hard strap on my Garmin 305 has worked without any problems for years, just the occasional battery replacement which I would expect.25/2/16 FURTHER TO THE ABOVE The rubber sensors have now started to peel away from the elastic strap giving a slightly erratic reading, so I purchased a replacement only to find the transmitter would not clip on. Thinking the 'poppers' were faulty I ordered another - same problem. I then looked more closely and found the rubber surrounding the 'poppers' was slightly raised compared to the first one I had purchased, so careful use use of a sharp knife (Stanley Blade) I trimmed off the excess and all is now fine. Seems like Polar have slightly altered the manufacture of these straps.

I first bought a Polar Strap as a replacement for the Garmin strap (the Garmin one fell apart after 9 months). Today I've just replaced this Polar Strap with another new Polar Strap and it has over 2 years of constant use - I run 6 times a week, 50 miles per week. It is super-comfortable and I don't even notice it on 15 hour races. Highly recommended for Quality & Performance. I rinse it under the shower after every run, sometimes with a bit of shower gel and leave to dry naturally hung up with my run clothes. I think I've put it in the washing machine twice in 2 years - as I rinse it as soon as I come in from a run it never got that grimy. The only thing is the price has gone up - the one I bought 2 years ago was £9.63, I see they are now £17.50 each! Have bought another one today to keep in a draw as a spare...the price is only likely to rise!

This item is expensive but fits the monitor well and is very soft. Works well. Low score as I am not sure about the durability of the joining arrangement. The Plastic hook and a fabric "eye" seem flimsy.

I bought this chest strap to replace the one that came with my Polar V800 HR monitor. I had been experiencing major issues with erratic readings on my HR watch for months but had been putting it down to RF interference and static build up. In the end the HR feature of the watch had become virtually unusable so I decided to try replacing the chest strap as a first step. I’m delighted to report that all of the issues I had been experiencing vanished once I started using the new strap. No more unreliable and inaccurate readings.Polar advises users to take care of the strap by washing after every use in warm soapy water. This is a piece of advice I neglected to follow with the original and which undoubtedly led to its premature demise. I have been diligently washing the new strap after every use and am pleased to report that the strap has performed without a hitch over five weeks of daily use at an average of at least an hour per day. The other good news is that the battery in the transmitter seems to be draining at a far slower rate than it did on the old strap.Update October 2020: since writing my original review my impression of this product has plummeted. The replacement strap I purchased in February lasted about 4 months before it started giving the same erratic output as the original. I ordered another replacement in July and that lasted less than ten weeks before it too started giving useless output. I followed the care instructions with diligence bit it has made no difference.

The same as many other buyers - went for this after burning through 3 garmin hrm straps. This fits the garmin hr unit easily.This is the second one I've bought but I use an HRM twice a day on my bike commute and other riding too so replacing after heavy usage over 6 months - much more financially palatable than replacing with the garmin equivalent. Ultimately if you use it a lot it will wear out but great value item for those sufferng Garming HRM pains!

I bought this to replace the strap for my Garmin FR220 heart rate monitor. The Polar strap is compatible with the Garmin transmitters (both use press-studs to attach the transmitter to the strap). The Polar strap is reputed to provide a better signal and overcome the known Garmin problems of spikes, excessively high HR records during the start of a workout, and susceptibility to wind effects (more relevant to cyclists than runners). You can find out more about this these issues on the excellent DCRainmaker website.The Polar strap needs minor modification to work with a Garmin transmitter - just to trim about 1mm off the plastic collars around the press-studs on the strap. This will take you about 30s with a sharp knife. Once that's done you are good to go.After a few runs, I can confirm that everything is true - the HR plots for my runs now omit the "Garmin Spike" of high HR during the first 5 minutes, and everything works perfectly. It has saved me from wasting money on a complete new strap & transmitter.

The strap is comfortable to wear. They appear to have changed the clip mechanism for wearing the strap with a mechanism that slowly wears through the material, but don’t worry, the strap will start to come apart long before then.Mine lasted around 5 months.The photo shows the actual monitor and the sensor strip separating from each other, at which point it stops working completely.Will try a third party item next to see if that’s an improvement.