Steele Signs wrote:I fitted this one last Thursday, & my golden rule is: If it obstructs the drivers vision, then it's too big. I got the owner to sit in the car whilst I offered it up, & when he gave me the thumbs up, I taped it into place.
Feb 27, 2009 - 'Windscreen has a sticker or other obstruction encroaching into the swept area by more than 40mm outside zone 'A' 9.3.1e' So there you are, if you have a sunstrip, dont go over 40mm of the wiper sweep area of the.
Edit: This one was 4.5' in the centre, about 7.5' at the outer edges.Bottom line is, I don't want a copper knocking on my door claiming the sun strip I fitted was partly the cause of an accident. Call me cynical, but for a £40 job.?Cheers,Gwaredd.its still illegal.I make my customer sign a disclaimer, just in case. Steele Signs wrote:I fitted this one last Thursday, & my golden rule is: If it obstructs the drivers vision, then it's too big. I got the owner to sit in the car whilst I offered it up, & when he gave me the thumbs up, I taped it into place.
Edit: This one was 4.5' in the centre, about 7.5' at the outer edges.Bottom line is, I don't want a copper knocking on my door claiming the sun strip I fitted was partly the cause of an accident. Call me cynical, but for a £40 job.?Cheers,Gwaredd.What happens when you have a short driver? Can you lower the strip?People who want a sunstrip on their porsche, must be a sandwich short of a picnic anyway, so £40 is far to cheap, give it to em large, its got to be worth at least a ton! (even for a mate and in aid of charity)Peter. Peter Normington wrote:Sorry folks, Disclaimers don't mean squat, law of the land and consumer rights always prevail, Its like sainsburys putting a notice up saying they arnt responsible for food poisoning, if they sell you an out of date product.PeterI feel I must elaborate.Disclaimers are often talked about on the boards, but under UK law, are very rarely a legal defence.As a supplier, you have a duty of care to supply goods fit for the purpose. So if boy racer asks for a sunstrip, and you supply one that subsequently causes an mot failure, or god forbid, an accident, then under current law, you could be held culpable. It is simply not good enough to get the customer to sign a disclaimer.In fact in some cases, asking for a signed disclaimer is in itself an admission that you are aware that the law is being broken.So, supply your sunstrip, but be aware, most of the time no-one will care if the law is being broken or not, it all boils down to IF the boy racer has the BIG one, and kills himself and his passengers.Then is when you worry.Sorry to sound like a righteous scaremonger, but that's how it works.Peter.
I feel I must defend the Porsche owner by saying that it was not his idea to fit the sunstrip, but the Tuning firm that has just squeezed 520-odd bhp out of said car & was going on an 8 day jaunt round europe with other like minded petrol heads, so it was a clever bit of advertising.The tuning firm is having a load of gerber'd stickers off me too, hence the price Peter. I'm not normally that cheap But for the record, I hate doing sun-strips too, especially on £90k's worth of car, makes me nervous, but give me a £250k coach to letter, & I'm fine. I only sell sunstrips, I don't usually fit them.
It's like with my mates number plates.they're 'for show and offroad use only'.They fit them.so as far as I am concerned.their problem. If I went into a gunshop to buy a gun, I could take it home and put it on the wall or own it for perfectly legitimate reasons.but then I could also go out on a mad rampage through town.does that mean the bloke in the Gunshop could be prosecuted?
I'm not so sure it does.at the end of the day, it's legal to sell something for a particular purpose.i.e. The 'show plate' or 'sunstrip for offroad and show use' but what the customer does with it, we have no control?Just a thought.Adam.