Crit Air zones & Scams

[SuePJ]

I do hope you checked out this thread when deciding where to put your “passport”

UK cars - where to put your Crit'Air sticker

A word to the wise for those like me who are still UK-based - be careful where on the windscreen you put your Crit’air sticker! When I first got mine I put it on the lower right-hand corner of the windscreen, as advised on various websites. Then I got my car MOT’d in the UK - and the garage had removed my sticker - destroying it in the process! Apparently it is an automatic MOT fail if you have anything obscuring the “swept area” of the windscreen on UK cars - and these days most windscreen wipers go right into the corner on the right hand side, so there is no room to put a sticker without it being behind the “swept area”. It’s a bit silly because in the bottom right corner of your windscreen all you can see is the wing of your car, but there it is - “it’s the LAW!” So I now have mine in the top left corner behind the unswept bit, and hopefully no gendarme is going to object to that! Just FYI for wandering Brits…