Sunstrip Law

Dish · 25-09-2007 11:24pm #1

Can anyone tell me the law on this? I want to put one on my car but at the same time be tortured bout its legality! Is there a legal one or length???

Cheers
No crititcs please!:)

Eoin087 · 26-09-2007 1:15am

AFAIK it can't be more than 7 inches in height. Not 100% though

JoeySully · 26-09-2007 7:48am

Dish wrote:

Cheers
No crititcs please!:)

Its a public forum, this is where critics LIVE

SO does sunstrip say STARLET or TURBO

DarkJager · 26-09-2007 7:53am

AFAIK, it can't be down into the path of the wipers. They'll fail you on the NCT if it is.

kdevitt · 26-09-2007 8:01am

DarkJager wrote:

AFAIK, it can't be down into the path of the wipers. They'll fail you on the NCT if it is.

Thats what I was going to say - and since most wipers go to just about the top of the windscreen, it doesn't leave you much room to play with.

Might just have to get Jason and Jacinta printed in really small writing

DarkJager · 26-09-2007 8:04am

Or something cool like "TURBO"...on a nissan micra

cjt156 · 26-09-2007 8:12am

I saw an Astra cabriolet SRi MPower last week. One of a kind I reckon...

DaveD · 26-09-2007 9:15am

I think you're allowed go as low as your sun visor goes.

daedalus2097 · 26-09-2007 9:21am

cjt156 wrote:

I saw an Astra cabriolet SRi MPower last week. One of a kind I reckon...

The NCT requires 290mm vertical strip centred on the steering wheel to be clear and free from defects up as far as the wiper line. You'd probably be ok with a tinted strip but an opaque strip can't cross the wiper line. Whether this is the same as law though is another question.

Dish · 26-09-2007 6:01pm

Right still confused to what it is but get the idea! It'll just be a nice simple black one with 206 in small writing written in the corner!

Caliden · 26-09-2007 6:30pm

I dont understand the need to get your make of car on the sun visor. I can see it's a ****ty Civic already

colm_mcm · 26-09-2007 9:09pm

Caliden wrote:

I dont understand the need to get your make of car on the sun visor. I can see it's a ****ty Civic already

Exactly the reason he needs to get 206 printed on the windscreen!

hungryhippo89 · 05-04-2012 8:32pm

Just failed the nct in my ford focus ,on the sun strip on the windscreen. I questioned all the queries i have seen on here but no luck.....It is official that you WILL FAIL THE NCT IF THE WIPERS GO INTO THE SUNSTRIP AREA....Bad times, now how do i get the sunstrip off before the retest???/////

Please don't suddenly wake up a thread that's been asleep since 2007, it's very rude

Alanstrainor · 05-04-2012 8:35pm

5 Years old...

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