 Poster: A snowHead
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Read all the bumph about putting it behind the mirror in the blacked off area . . . but there isn't a blacked off area, the whole screen is the same colour in my Audi. There must be someone on here with a (modern) Audi using this system. Queston for you: just stick it in the area behind the rear view mirror and it works fine ??
I don't want to be the git holding a pile of frustrated Frenchmen up.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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just stick it in the area behind the rear view mirror and it works fine ??
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works for me. I don't have a blacked off area either.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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If your car has a heated front windscreen then this can stop the sensor in the doofer working and being picked up by the barrier sensor. Due to the heating elements in the glass.
On MOST cars with heated FRONT windscreens, there is an area around where the rearview mirror is mounted too the screen that has NO heating element. On our Ford Mondeo it is shaded darker than the rest of the screen and this is where we stick our doofer.
If your car has NO heated front screen, then you can pretty much stick the peage tag anywhere, though higher up the screen and centralised seems to work better.
I am not an Audi owner so cannot tell you if they have heated screens or not, Your friendly audi dealer will tell you in a quick phone call.
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I don't want to be the git holding a pile of frustrated Frenchmen up.
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What this sounds like the perfect start to any holiday 
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Heated front windscreen is almost a non-existent option on Audis so I doubt if you have one but if you get there and it doesn't work just hold it out the window. Then stick it on the front of your sunroof instead. Mine works even in the glovebox unless you also turn it upside down.
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Nickski, I've got an A6 (06, hope it's modern enough), my doofer is fitted just in front of the rear view mirror and works fine.
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I had trouble with my 'doofer' when I first got it. I stuck it in the clear area behind the rear view mirror of my Peugeot 307 and it failed to work at the first peage that I approached. I pulled it off the windscreen and held it in my hand outside the car, the barrier lifted as if by magic. The thing would not work from anywhere within the car. I think the windscreen has some reflective properties that stopped the signal from the device.
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Audis have to queue up in the normal lanes as punishment for tailgating everyone else, as doofers do not work in them. Maybe that`s just Belgian Audis.  Timbobaggins, Doofer king, Only Fords have heated front screens.
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VAG are missing a trick.
The only (and I mean only) good thing about my Focus is the heated front screen. I'll miss that bit when I go hop-skippping and jumping back to German engineering when it gets replaced.
WTF builds a car which requires you to get outside and wipe the condensation off the outside of the driver and passenger mirrors. Or did the factory just run out of fluffy strip the day mine was built. Oh and makes Isofix an optional extra on a family car. FFS.
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Nickski, Check the cars handbook my German cars book has a whole page on which bit of the screen to use. But don't forget the first barrier at Calais takes a couple of extra seconds to lift, just to make you panic (I assume it's registering you onto the system )
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| cstreat wrote: |
| Audis have to queue up in the normal lanes as punishment for tailgating everyone else, as doofers do not work in them. Maybe that`s just Belgian Audis. Timbobaggins, Doofer king, Only Fords have heated front screens. |
Not so, My Skoda superb estate has one - but licenced from Ford who are the patent holder I believe
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You know it makes sense.
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| cstreat wrote: |
| Audis have to queue up in the normal lanes as punishment for tailgating everyone else, as doofers do not work in them. Maybe that`s just Belgian Audis. Timbobaggins, Doofer king, Only Fords have heated front screens. |
Not so, My Skoda superb estate has one - but licenced from Ford who are the patent holder I believe |
I believe the patent has expired. In the UK at least, it's 20 years on a patent, and the QuickClear windscreens first appeared in the mid-80s on Ford Granadas.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| cstreat wrote: |
| Only Fords have heated front screens. |
Not true. Ford patented the technology (fine filaments within a laminated screen) and licensed it to other Ford group cars such as Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Volvo and Mazda. That patent has now expired and they are becoming more widely available - it's an option on a VW Passat for instance.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Have a 2008 vintage A6 estate, and I usually jam the doofer between the windscreen and the dashboard. Works fine as long as you get it the right way up (and that is not intuitive - looks at the bracket and what side is sticky). The reason we don't use the bracket? Left it in the previous car when we sold it. Dohh!!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Audi A3 S Line 2009 Works perfectly just to the left of the mirror. Still not dared to do 30 kph thru the non stop lanes....
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Still not dared to do 30 kph thru the non stop lanes....
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Why on earth not, you must be holding others up?
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Boredsurfing, but you need to remember that 30 on the speedo is a lot faster than 30 kph
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Raceplate, It`s been longer than I thought since I had a Ford, then. Still a superb feature on a car.
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| BergenBergen wrote: |
| Boredsurfing, but you need to remember that 30 on the speedo is a lot faster than 30 kph |
I convert my digital speedo to kph 
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Boredsurfing, They don't seem that popular - working up thru 21kph - the barrier seems to loom up quickly whilst you wait for the beep!
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Boredsurfing, They don't seem that popular - working up thru 21kph - the barrier seems to loom up quickly whilst you wait for the beep!
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chocksaway, Quite a few have been removed, apparently there is an issue with the staff crossing through the lanes.
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Boredsurfing, Presumably to slow things down as they are putting them out of a job!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Thanks all, especially for the usual thread drift. Basil, mines 09 so I'll just try it and wave it out the window if it doesn't. Perhaps if I get really bored I'll read the manual.
I have a heated front windscreen and a voice command system I had to switch off because it doesn't understand northern accents.
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| Nickski wrote: |
Thanks all, especially for the usual thread drift. Basil, mines 09 so I'll just try it and wave it out the window if it doesn't. Perhaps if I get really bored I'll read the manual.
I have a heated front windscreen and a voice command system I had to switch off because it doesn't understand northern accents. |
Its worth looking in the manual - i did for the skoda's heated windscreen and it becomes more obvious where it needs to go. I use a blob of blu tak so I can take it on and off as required ( i think i read somewhere that left in vehicle or even mount left in vehicle is attractive for thieves).\\
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You know it makes sense.
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I've got an Audi A6 and yes no porblems with it being behind the rear view mirror, works everytime.
(for those with comments about heated windscreens I also use the doofer there in the Focus with one and no issues either)
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I have stuck mine in the dark area behind the rear view mirror on my old Volvo, but it does not have a heated screen, hope it works going to look a proper Charlie at the first toll on Thursday if it don't 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Its a bit like still ducking as you approach the 1.85m bar across the lanes for the Channel Tunnel even though you know you will easily go under snowHead
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I drive through there as quick as possible to scare Mrs B - once I've checked we're not travelling with roofbox 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Boris, Your new car won't go under
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Worked like a dream and my car doesn't have a heated windscreen, just wing mirrors. I was wrong. There, I've said it).
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Bumped as I need advice for a Volvo heated screen, anyone got a V90 and tag?
There is no “blacked out”area and You are not supposed to put a Dashcam near the mirror because it interferes with the safety stuff so I assume that the tag would do the same. Emailed both Emovis and Volvo both are non comically bad, asking me to ask the others.
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Surely there's a Volvo geek website that covers this. FWIW, I have one of these, in a Macan. It differs from earlier types in that there is a layer of silver in the window doing the work rather than wires. So yes, if this is the type used by Volvo, you must find a place for it (the toll transponder, the radar detector, etc) to be able to see through, and that's where the frits (black dots) are.
FWIW #2: It was a $475 option on my car and I have found its performance to be underwhelming. I'd only recommend it to someone who parks outside in freezing weather with some regularity.
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Thanks for your reply’s I have searched but found nothing 100%, just wondering if anyone has a definite answer. I think it’s going to be a hold and hope on the first barrier…
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@harrim51, if needs be just wave the doofer out of the window
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when I first started using one it surprised me how close you have to get to the barrier ( non 30 kph lane ) before it bleeps. You have to go well beyond the ticket machine
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