Facelift Annoyance: Gap between windscreen and dashboard; losing tickets

[Svenedin]

Is anyone else irritated by the thin gap between the windscreen and the dashboard? It is the perfect gap for pay and display tickets etc to fall down and a devil to try to retrieve them. I have to display a pass at work but for security reasons it has to be removed when off site. Several times it has fallen in the gap and been difficult to retrieve. Today a pay and display ticket fell into the slot and I spent 20 minutes getting it back out.

I'm going to get a clip to stop this happening. My old car had one and it is very useful.

 

[AndyKnight]

Our Octavia vrs has a built in clip on the a pillar especially for this, very useful!

 

[Svenedin]

Yes my Skoda had one too.

 

[Tom.H]

I just sit them on the flat part of the dash, not had any issues yet.

 

[Vertigo1]

The gap is kind of necessary for airflow to the screen.

 

[paradigital]

I just sit them on the flat part of the dash, not had any issues yet.

This.

A pay and display ticket has never been anywhere near the windscreen in any car I’ve ever owned.

Worse though are people who actually stick them to the glass, and never clean the residue off.

 

[Svenedin]

This.

A pay and display ticket has never been anywhere near the windscreen in any car I’ve ever owned.

Worse though are people who actually stick them to the glass, and never clean the residue off.

The pay and display tickets around here have not had sticky for years and if they did I wouldn't use it. A clip is much better. It was by putting the ticket on the dashboard that it was caught by a gust of wind and ended up stuck in the gap.

 

[Svenedin]

The gap is kind of necessary for airflow to the screen.

You would think so. I tried putting the screen blower on full blast to blow the ticket out but in fact that is not where the air seems to blow from. It seems to blow from vents in the top of the dashboard.

 

[Carefree69]

My old Fabia vRS has an A pillar clip for things like this. However, just place the ticket on top of the dash and away from the gap.

Hey presto, resolved.

 

[Svenedin]

My old Fabia vRS has an A pillar clip for things like this. However, just place the ticket on top of the dash and away from the gap.

Hey presto, resolved.

Indeed. The Fabia vRS (Mark 1) was my old car. I'm going to get a "Tickettak" clip thing and the problem is solved.

 

[Carefree69]

Great car, 14 years owned from new and nothing whatsoever went wrong with it in all that time. In the car world it was/is a legend.

 

[Svenedin]

Great car, 14 years owned from new and nothing whatsoever went wrong with it in all that time. In the car world it was/is a legend.

Very true. I had mine for 13 years from new and the only thing that went wrong was it blew an intercooler pipe off whilst caning it up an Alpine pass. Went with a tremendous bang. Thought I had blown a tyre. All it needed was a new clip but I had to limp to the top of the pass so that I could cross the border between Italy and Austria. I had a lot of fun in that car but I got the S3 because I wanted something a bit more comfortable and with a bit more poke. It is probably an age thing too. I was sorry to sell the Fabia but I know it lives on -it didn't go for scrap. It did eat tyres though!

 

[traindweller]

I had a non sticky ticket stuck in the gap on my last A4 for about 3 months, I tried everything to get it out but eventually with a wooden lolly stick , caught it and applied the very slightest pressure to lever it up the screen to grip it. I got the ticket out but also developed a small but growing crack at the point where I touched the screen! Very expensive mistake and now use 'Tikettak' clips.