This is an interesting comment :- Note: Where any damage or obstruction does not impair the driver’s view of the road, the vehicle should pass. If it only affects the driver’s view of the sky or the bonnet then this is not to be considered a reason for rejection See Pooledweller's post #28 on this thread.

I'm neither a tall or a short bloke. Just average height yet I have no view of the bonnet of our Touran from the driving position because it slopes away giving me an unimpaired view of the road.

However, when I owned a Landrover, I seem to remember that I had a lot of bonnet in front of me thus restricting my road view to about 8' in front of the vehicle. (even worse on one of our Land Rovers that had the spare mounted on the bonnet). Where's the logic in that?

By the way, I have now reapplied for the two stickers and our efficient French friends are now saying that our car is only Class 4. They've made a balls up so we are currently trying to argue it out with them.

Randa

Update:-

The German replacement sticker took 3 days to reach us from receipt of order

The French sticker has still not arrived although they finally agreed that they had cocked up the clasification. We had to send them another copy of the log book and a photo of the original one before they admitted it but that was 10 days ago.

Don't you just love the French?

Randa

Mick.
I caught a bit of a "Police Interceptors" programme tonight where there were some interior shots of a Cop driving and unmarked Beamer. Just to his right on top of the dashboard, was a small camera sized Sat Nav operating.

Yippee. The letter with a replacement CRIT'Air sticker in it finally arrived this morning...................Class 4 ? Wrong

So, back on line to try and sort it out again.

Don't you just love the French?

Randa

ps. I do really

Arggg....................................................................The French CRIT'Air.

Email no 11 and they still don't get it.

They admitted that the'd got it wrong on 24th January but now they keep saying that we have to start all over again. I hate to CRIT'Air size but they are b****dy hopeless.

Randa

Guess what finally arrived today? Our ORANGE Class 3 CRIT'air sticker. However, they didn't admit that they had previously admitted that it was their fault that they previously issued us with a Class 4 sticker. Therefore we had to go through the process again and pay again for the correct one.

Randa

OK. Decision made as to where to stick them. Now, now, behave yourselves

The law states that nothing is to be stuck on the "swept area of the windscreen". On our car, the whole of the drivers side right up against the front pillar (and behind the rear view mirror), is swept by the wipers.

Therefore, we've decided that the only way to proceed was to make the stickers removable which does not comply with the law of the countries concerned but each sticker is unique to our vehicle as the reg. number is boldly displayed on the sticker.

We've therefore stuck them on acetate paper and invested 99p on some lightweight Union Flag tax disc holders. We got 4qty for that price including postage and furthermore, the Union Flag is correctly represented. They don't have pouches in them so they are just flat, circular plastic.

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We've stuck them on the top of the driver's side windscreen as we decided that they would still only be at the same height as any larger vehicle, eg a camper van that displays them at the bottom of the windscreen.

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So, for better or worse, the deed has been done. Fingers crossed.

Randa

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We've therefore stuck them on acetate paper and invested 99p on some lightweight Union Flag tax disc holders. They don't have pouches in them so they are just flat, circular plastic.

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