I recently decided to improve my cell phone charging options in the car and chose these cables for this purpose. Last week I used both cables for the first time and everything worked fine. While I gave them 4 stars for "durability" and "reliability," these parameters are best measured over time. The cables appear to be well assembled and should hold my car console without too much trouble. To give them the best possible rating I should add that I bought another set to help with the rechargeable batteries and chargers I had in stock recently. That should say it all!