Too many displays required on car windscreens. It is getting ridiculous

Run_to_da_hills · 06-05-2008 07:24PM #1

I spotted this on a car in Dunlaoghaire recently, four displays on the windshield and on the drivers side :eek: . It’s ridiculous that the DOE and MOT will fail you with a small stone chip yet at the same time let you blot out half your vision with these mandatory displays. In the States it’s illegal to have any display or obstruction on any part of your windscreen, all licence details are displayed on a small coloured sticker on the reg plate.

mikemac · 06-05-2008 07:28PM

Having that many displays is not ridiculous. What is ridiculous is putting them at the driver side.
Most people put them at the passenger side and have no problem

crosstownk · 06-05-2008 07:40PM

micmclo wrote: »

Having that many displays is not ridiculous. What is ridiculous is putting them at the driver side.
Most people put them at the passenger side and have no problem

I agree, bottom left is my preferred position.

I've seen cars with more than the four in the pic above.

Esel · 06-05-2008 07:40PM

Get a life. The driver's view is not blocked in any way there.

Phaetonman · 06-05-2008 07:45PM

It pisses me off as well. Its indicitave of the level of beauracracy we have to live with nowadays.

You see people with multiple parking permits, nct, tax, insurance, toll road devices.

Toots · 06-05-2008 08:11PM

Phaetonman wrote: »

You see people with multiple parking permits, nct, tax, insurance, toll road devices.

LOl, sounds like my car!

Volvoboy · 06-05-2008 08:11PM

I think we've bigger concerns in motoring Ireland than too many discs in our windows.

I've mine behind my rearview mirror, so its outa sight for most of the time.

ninty9er · 06-05-2008 08:18PM

They're hardly in the feckin way now are they. But I do agree there should be less to display.

Eoin · 06-05-2008 08:34PM

It's hard to tell from that picture, but three of those stickers could well be hidden by the dash anyway. If I put my permit at the very bottom of the windscreen, it can barely be seen (if at all) from the driver's seat. In some cars, you would not see a sticker stuck on in front of the rear view mirror.

That picture linked to is hardly a crime against humanity.

peasant · 06-05-2008 08:41PM

Behind the rear view mirror is actually a handy place ...the stickers fill the gap that most sun visors leave open.

Toots · 06-05-2008 08:48PM

peasant wrote: »

Behind the rear view mirror is actually a handy place ...the stickers fill the gap that most sun visors leave open.

Oooh, that's a great idea! My last car had that green tint at the top of the windscreen so I didn't have a problem with a gap between the visors, but my new one doesn't......yet

bitemybanger · 06-05-2008 08:59PM

Dont be a dope and do what everyone else does, stick it on bottom left, seriously, you wont even notice its there;)

corcaigh07 · 06-05-2008 09:12PM

ive seen much worse. ie.receipts for parking permit, out of date tax or nct still visably displayed along with current valid disc, AA stickers, IRL stickers, boy racers who think its cool for some reason to have their horizonal tax disc holders stuck on vertically.

chris85 · 06-05-2008 09:35PM

Ive had the usual three discs (bottom left) and an eazypass (behind rearview) and a fire brigade member sticker (top right, from previous owner and i think guards gave me an easy time at check points because of it

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Never had any problem with visibility ever.

Its ridiculus complaining about it, it cant really affect it too much unless you cover your entire windscreen in stickers from anywhere

Eoin · 06-05-2008 09:38PM

chris85 wrote: »

Its ridiculus complaining about it, it cant really affect it too much unless you cover your entire windscreen in stickers from anywhere

Agreed. I feel stupid having even bothered posting in this thread.

Another crucial motoring tackled!

Wishbone Ash · 06-05-2008 09:42PM

crosstownk wrote: »

I agree, bottom left is my preferred position

Probably because it's a legal requirement that they be in the bottom nearside.

Steve · 06-05-2008 10:03PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I spotted this on a car in Dunlaoghaire recently, four displays on the windshield and on the drivers side :eek: . It’s ridiculous that the DOE and MOT will fail you with a small stone chip yet at the same time let you blot out half your vision with these mandatory displays. In the States it’s illegal to have any display or obstruction on any part of your windscreen, all licence details are displayed on a small coloured sticker on the reg plate.

I park on DL harbour a lot so I use annual concession parking stickers as well as the other crud - whatever glue they use welds the sticker to the windscreen and they won't come off... I have 4 of them now.:(

Eoin · 06-05-2008 10:15PM

stevec wrote: »

I park on DL harbour a lot so I use annual concession parking stickers as well as the other crud - whatever glue they use welds the sticker to the windscreen and they won't come off... I have 4 of them now.:(

Try a hair drier and some sort of solvent to remove the stickers. That's what some people use when de-badging their car anyway - don't know if it would be different for glass.

I was going to say sorry for going OT, but this was a stupid thread to begin with.

Steve · 06-05-2008 10:33PM

eoin_s wrote: »

Try a hair drier and some sort of solvent to remove the stickers. That's what some people use when de-badging their car anyway - don't know if it would be different for glass.

In order to improve my view out the front (and stay on topic)...

Tried solvent (cellulose & acetone), didnt work. Bit wary of a heat gun on the glass.

eoin_s wrote: »

I was going to say sorry for going OT, but this was a stupid thread to begin with.

L1011 · 06-05-2008 10:44PM

My disc holders are so far down the dash blocks me seeing them and my toll transponders behind the rear view (used to be *on* the rearview until I realised that what was causing it to fail on the M4). Can't see any of them. Obvious far less obtrusive than the legally required L plates were when I had them ages back!

Can't remove the dealers sticker off the back window, though - seems welded on...

Cionád · 06-05-2008 10:52PM

MYOB wrote: »

Can't remove the dealers sticker off the back window, though - seems welded on...

LOL, They must get their adhesives from the same place as the "Do not park here" stickers. - The amount of people I've seen with about a quarter of the sticker torn off(presumably after hours of effort) is hilarious.

Guy:Incognito · 06-05-2008 11:02PM

stevec wrote: »

I park on DL harbour a lot so I use annual concession parking stickers as well as the other crud - whatever glue they use welds the sticker to the windscreen and they won't come off... I have 4 of them now.:(

You could put a square of the clear sticky film for covering school books on the window and stick the sticker to that, Then when you pull it off it's only the adhesive from the school book covering that was attached to the window. That stuff comes off clean.

ninty9er · 06-05-2008 11:56PM

Cionád wrote: »

LOL, They must get their adhesives from the same place as the "Do not park here" stickers. - The amount of people I've seen with about a quarter of the sticker torn off(presumably after hours of effort) is hilarious.

Diet Coke is the job for them things.

Steve · 07-05-2008 12:02AM

Stekelly wrote: »

You could put a square of the clear sticky film for covering school books on the window and stick the sticker to that, Then when you pull it off it's only the adhesive from the school book covering that was attached to the window. That stuff comes off clean.

I'll give it a go next time.

Oilrig · 07-05-2008 12:19AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Probably because it's a legal requirement that they be in the bottom nearside.

No its not...

Wishbone Ash · 07-05-2008 07:17AM

Oilrig wrote: »

No its not...

In a vehicle equipped with a windscreen, the tax disc must be displayed in the lower left side and not more than 2 inches from the edge of the windscreen.

I don't have time now to dig out the relevant Statute Instrument but I may get a chance tonight.

Slig · 07-05-2008 12:47PM

funny, I dont find that I have a much better field of vision without a tax or NCT disc blocking me windscreen

Johnny Utah · 07-05-2008 01:55PM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

In a vehicle equipped with a windscreen, the tax disc must be displayed in the lower left side and not more than 2 inches from the edge of the windscreen.

I don't have time now to dig out the relevant Statute Instrument but I may get a chance tonight.

I'd also appreciate it if you could find the statutory instrument where it says that.

Thanks

G Luxel · 07-05-2008 03:19PM

These government departments and county councils should actually be making these stickers much smaller, similiar to the size of those stickers on the back of German registration plates.

peasant · 07-05-2008 03:25PM

G Luxel wrote: »

These government departments and county councils should actually be making these stickers much smaller, similiar to the size of those stickers on the back of German registration plates.

Be careful what you wish for, the German system is expensive and much more of a pain in the neck than a few stickers on he windscreen.

At least here you can do everything by post/online (barring the NCT test), over there any change requires a day off and endless queues.

Del2005 · 07-05-2008 03:26PM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

In a vehicle equipped with a windscreen, the tax disc must be displayed in the lower left side and not more than 2 inches from the edge of the windscreen.

I don't have time now to dig out the relevant Statute Instrument but I may get a chance tonight.

Johnny Utah wrote: »

I'd also appreciate it if you could find the statutory instrument where it says that.

Thanks

Someone posted it here a while ago, I tried looking for it but couldn't find it. Even tried transport.ie and had no look there.

Too many displays required on car windscreens. It is getting ridiculous

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