Blind Spot Stickers

[GlennL]

Hi, has anyone used the blind spot stickers while driving in France,
and if so what are they like to remove once back home?

 

[Stealaway]

Do you need them? You only need them if you are over 3.5 tonnes

 

[Lenny HB]

Got them but didn't bother fitting them on our last trip.

 

[Badknee]

My take on this is that if you can’t see a (usually) big white thing you shouldn't be driving, cycling or walking.
I have a suspicion that the geezer that makes them is the same brother in law that tried to get breathalysers made legal and failed.

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Went through a checkpoint with about 8 French police on and they never even looked at my missing stickers
Have them in the van ready should they pull me…

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[GeeCee]

Yes I got one that is permanently stuck to the rear and two magnetic ones that attach to the cab doors. One the way back from Spain last year I forgot to re-attach the ones for the cab doors - having removed them on the way down and arriving in Spain - until we were in northern France. The thing is they're only really required in towns and if over 3.5 tonnes, so not needed on motorways. And what are the chances of the gendarmes or police spotting your van in a town once you come off the motorway? Slim I'd say. Still I'll use mine when I remember to do so. Avoids travel time wasted, and a possible fine, if you are stopped.

 

[Solwaybuggier]

The thing is they're only really required in towns and if over 3.5 tonnes, so not needed on motorways.

Can anyone cite an authoritative basis for this? I believe that when the law was debated initially there was some discussion of limiting requirement to towns, but in previous discussions on here no one has actually cited official sources supporting it as law (despite repeated invitations to do so.)

Don’t get me wrong - we’re over 3.5 tonnes (albeit not conspicuously so) and had stickers with us in France last autumn, but like LennyHB decided not to attach them for fear of damage to body of van. From what we saw, most vans with Angles Morts stickers attached were liner-sized.

I think there is a film of some sort you can get which goes between van and stickers to protect it?

 

[Brains]

My van can be supplied as 3.5t or 4.2t.
It also looks like any other French motorhome between 6 and 7m, nearly all of which are 3.5t

The only difference between the two models is the payload
and what is written in Font 15 size writing on a plate that is a foot off the ground.
I'd a be very surprised if a gendarme could spot that unless they were really out to get you, in which case, from experience back in the 1980's, it easier to kick out the rear light.

 

[Reallyretired]

I have some, though as have now downsized to 3.5t I won't be using them.9

 

[DDJC]

We are 3.5 tonne and 7.15m long. But we tow a small 500g trailer (which stops us being over MGW). Do we need one?

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[jongood]

I kept the backing paper, so as soon as we're out of France we take them back off, fit them onto the backing paper and back in the cupboard. We ve done this twice so far and still looks OK.

Totally agree withe comments regarding mhs that only have 4 wheels, rarely see a French one with them.

 

[glenn2926]

Our van is 4t and I don’t have and won’t be fitting the cyclist stickers. The van was supplied at 3.5t and the previous owners up plated it. So visually it’s the same as every other 3.5t van.
I also don’t have the reflective stickers on my motorcycle helmet and won’t be fitting them.
If the myopic cyclists can’t see the motorhome they definitely won’t see the stickers.