[Closed] Family car stickers

I generally don't like stickers on cars, especially those family ones and the collection that seems to adorn every ropey-looking T4 down south, but I'm a bit of a hypocrite since I've kept and added to the collection on my Merc.

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I also saw one recently about seeing overtakers at the undertakers or similar, which read more like a threat than the public safety announcement I imagine it was created in attempt to achieve.

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I had 'I brake for cake' on the bumper until the wife saw it.

I can understand the original reason for the Child On board stickers, as they were originally intended to notify the emergency services in an accident but it has got a bit out of hand*.

I might has slightly understated the case here.

Although I mostly hate charity stickers (eg. Dogs Trust), I like sports stickers (cycling and surfing decals in particular), and some travel stickers (the ones that show where a car has travelled).

This kind of thing:

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or this:

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nixie - Member
Car dealerships have started putting branded reg plates on as well now, bastards!
Its compulsory for cars registered after a certain point (y2kish I think) to have markings on the number plates indicating who provided the plate. Given that the dealers register new cars this is not really a surprising move. Its much preferable to branded stickers everywhere.

It should have their name and postcode, no issues with that although some are way beyond the legal requirement.

I do have a particular issue with the extra black strip a number of dealers are stating to add at the bottom with their dealership name on it, last car I bought the dealership did this and I requested they got plain plates for my car, they initially told me they didn't have anything else and claimed it was a legal requirement etc, but they did supply the car with standard plates on it in the end. (and no advertising stickers)

My fiancee put a 'baby on board' in our car. I don't like it. In fact he's not really a baby anymore so I might go and remove it.

Actually I did have quiet a nice collection of Mountain Mayhem stickers in the back window, why did they stop doing them? Not sure I ever saw another one though.

Saved them when I sold the car, got them stuck to the window in the garage now.

I can understand the original reason for the Child On board stickers, as they were originally intended to notify the emergency services in an accident but it has got a bit out of hand*.

Why do horse transporters have the word HORSES written on them

It's their lorry/box. They can write whatever they want on it.

Would it wind you up even more if it had SHEEP written on the side?

I can understand the original reason for the Child On board stickers, as they were originally intended to notify the emergency services in an accident but it has got a bit out of hand*.

They were just under the delusion that other people GAS about their brats.

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The stick-family stickers are massively popular in America (or at least, they were when I was over last, in the area I was in, just to avoid any rash generalisations). Like, something like one in five cars must've had one. They'd already reached the point of subversion; I particularly liked the one with a couple, a big gap where the kids would normally be, then a big bag of cash.

i don't understand the animosity towards baby on board signs. There lots of tossers driving far to close to peoples rear ends and if a signs gets them to think about there driving a little bit then surely this has to be a good thing.

Of course. I for one only drive right up the arse of cars who don't have window stickers.

I can understand the original reason for the Child On board stickers, as they were originally intended to notify the emergency services in an accident but it has got a bit out of hand*.

I don't believe this was ever the case. Rather, they were originally intended to sell car stickers, and they were incredibly effective.

I have this:

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and this:

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So you didn't get the full set, then?

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and

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And would like to add the fish one too, where would I get one from?..

Apparently, if you pray hard enough one turns up.

i never knew family stickers existed but will keep an eye out .. is this the same feeling people get when you see cars with no kids parking in parent bays or able persons in a disabled bay?

i never knew family stickers existed but will keep an eye out .. is this the same feeling people get when you see cars with no kids parking in parent bays or able persons in a disabled bay?

For those people I'm very tempted to have some large (a4/a3) stickers made up with strong glue and anti removal perforations made up informing them of the ****ishness. So many of them parking in the (nursery's) parent and child bays at the local David Lloyd. FFS your going to the gym but your to lazy to walk the extra 20 meters. Putting something like that directly in the drivers view should make them suitably late for work.

Its compulsory for cars registered after a certain point (y2kish I think) to have markings on the number plates indicating who provided the plate. Given that the dealers register new cars this is not really a surprising move. Its much preferable to branded stickers everywhere.

Only the one making the plate, the irritating ones are the dealers who stick a "not quite the same yellow" sticker over it.

Mine just has a couple of 661 stickers that came free with helmets, and a greasy, uncovered tow hitch :twisted:, passive revenge on anyone squeezing past it in the car park.

perchypanther - Member

Stickers of any sort have no place on a car.

This is not true.
I have such a massive penis that driving a Nissan Micra just wouldn't get the message across by itself, so I adorned it with flower stickers as well.
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I have such a massive penis that driving a Nissan Micra just wouldn't get the message across by itself, so I adorned it with flower stickers as well.

Really? well, mine is big enough to fill one of these.....

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No Stickers required. 🙂

"Baby on Board" Phew, I was going to crash into you and kill us both until I saw this.

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On the dealer stickers front, we had a hire car a while back that had a dealer sticker (about 7 inches by two inches) below the upper top brake light. This was fine for my girlfriend who's a midget but for anyone grown up size meant that a big chunk of your rear view was missing. I chuntered a lot but was too scared to remove it for fear of an obscene charge.

perchypanther - Member

Really?

Of course not, I'm pretty average.
It was a condition of buying the car from my other half that I left the stickers on.
The flowers fitted over the door and boot locks quite nicely, protecting the paint from the key when trying to find the lock in the dark.

Having strong opinions on car stickers is a cheap form of iconoclasm: "hey, is anyone else a wild free thinker who won't abide twee things?", safe in the knowledge that you can just watch the "+1" comments roll in.

Having strong opinions on [b]Arnold Clark[/b] car stickers is a cheap form of [s]iconoclasm[/s] iconoclarkism

FTFY - If that's the case then paint me an Iconoclark-ist.

I'm off to get a baby on board sign for the car. It should mean less hassle when I park in the parent/child bay at the supermarket. It's always a pita having to justify why I park there, now I can just point smugly at the sticker.

I don't believe this was ever the case. Rather, they were originally intended to sell car stickers, and they were incredibly effective.

None of them annoy me particularly. They are often a handy indicator of the drivers priorities.

M-Sport badges on a 318i, now they annoy me

The only sticker on my car:

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(and yes, the focus on my phone camera is broken, thanks for noticing).

Ahem, http://singletrackworld.com/terms-and-conditions/ "No Trade or business advertising"

😀

The Arnold Clark ones bother me, especially when they put them within the area cleared by the wiper so the wiper wipes the yellow off on part of it 🙄

Other than that I'm not really fussed. Anyone with a "Help For Heroes" sticker is usually a weapons grade knobcheese though, and usually drives like it.

I have a Royal Dirty Northern Bastards Yacht Club one on one of our cars. Both have a national trust sticker in the place of the tax disk, but it's better if you think of that as a parking permit.

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neighbours who are very blingy new car folk last week got 2 new white ones, a merc and a convertible BMW. They are debadged, so no stickers at all. Waiting for my chance when asked how i like them to ask what they are 🙂 Particularly the BMW, which may be a 1 or a 2....

I got this sticker in the pub last night for £5

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I'd like on that says "Just Out Of Jail - No Kids and No Insurance"

Had a friend make these up on marine grade sticker for the back of my vw camper van

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I'm fairly indifferent to them

They are a good indicator of whether I consider myself superior to the other driver, eg Christian fish thingy, help for heroes, fairydust etc
Recently saw a sticker with an arrow above the exhuast of a new range rover 'Prius repellent', predictably driven by a fat old middle aged middle lane chugger
Best of all on an old siera in huge letters on the rear window

'IF ITS GOT TITS OR WHEELS ITS GONNA COST YOU'.
Judging by the state of his car, no more than a tenner a year

Car dealerships have started putting branded reg plates on as well now, bastards!
Its compulsory for cars registered after a certain point (y2kish I think) to have markings on the number plates indicating who provided the plate. Given that the dealers register new cars this is not really a surprising move.

I was talking about used cars, they don't need to register them but insist on putting branded reg plates on before selling them.

Amateurs

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There's nowt wrong with this one:
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Much to all your annoyance I'm going to cover my top box in shit stickers. They're bloody awful looking things anyway so a few stickers might help it!

My roof box has a nice big sticker on it saying "I love Tongue"

It gets looks.

Work colleague bough a Mondeo last week. Brought it in to use the company cleaning gear for his own use :roll:. Its his wifes car and in the back window , there is a sticker. ' Nannas little princesses on board'. I told him, 'some **** has left a crap sticker in the back window, better take that out'. He didn't look too impressed and we haven't seen the car since :D.
When I bought my Focus, when I picked it up, the sales guy wanted to show the refurbished alloys and hope I was happy. I opened the boot, whipped out the fresh dealer sticker, screwed it up and popped it in his hand........
My assistant at work and I use to muck around and I made a dyno sticker for the underside of her rear number plate saying ' I love sex with midgets'. She never noticed for a few months and then left it there when she found it , as saw strange looks from people at times. When she handed the car back ( Lease car) her boyfriend forgot to take it off.

I used to have an Otter Brewery sticker in the rear window that said 'I could murder an Otter'. At some point the bottom bit got torn off and it just said 'I could murder...' Liked that much more 😉

On the back of my van, I've a sticker of a Turtle with " moving as fast as I can " quite appropriate for a 60 bhp 14 year old rust bucket. It does get some laughs occasionally.

A guy down the road from me has a T5 camper with " adventure before dementia " across the rear bumper.

These ones annoy me the most, surprised no one else has mentioned them yet

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No mate your not 'living it' you wasting it away inside a metal box

You never see them on the sort of cars that also have the little stick person family stickers
Possibly something to do with penis size and functionality of the people 'living the life'

" adventure before dementia "

I've seen that on the back of a Range Rover, driven by a bloke who looked to be in his early 90s with a missus next to him of a similar vintage. Whilst I think most "bumper stickers" are nobbish I figured he'd earned that one. Fair play.