Weird stickers on cars

Dick Trickle was a US sportsman - I think ?

On the back of a Porsche 911 Turbo - "My other Porsche is a Turbo too". Slightly different from the usual, My other cars a Porsche I thought

Van parked round the corner has a FakeTaxi sticker? Unless I've got this wildly wrong, that's a porn site right? Why the f*** would you want everyone you drive past, and all your neighbours to know which porn sites you frequent. Obviously you'll all want to know how I know it's a porn site now. Great question.

Only got the one small sticker on the rear window of my car : Bollocks to Brexit

Seen plenty of ‘my other car is an XJS’ stickers.
Not funny at all, unless they’re on an XJS of course 😂😂

Driving into carlisle one day, behind a 30stone biffer in a peugeot 205, complete with a sticker on the bumper “I ate all the pies” hats off to the fella, I believe him.

My bumper sticker says 'Don't be a dick'
It's the motto of a local petrol heads cafe and pub. The the sign says it as you leave.

Plenty don't read it mind.

Why the f*** would you want everyone you drive past, and all your neighbours to know which porn sites you frequent. Obviously

seen the same sticker on a camper van, with wife and kids on board. Classy. Has a bit of a grim  John Worboys vibe.

#transporters - in the transformers font on a VW .

Or the transformers mask on the same.

I've got 'My other van is a van' on both of my vans.

Check out Deathtrap Van Club for cool stickers 😉

Seen a sticker of an AT-AT cocking its leg over a stick family with the motto “The Empire doesn’t care about your stick family”

I saw a WG1WGA sticker on a Fiat 500 in Aberdeen, I wondered if it was meant ironically/a troll.

#transporters

You missed the footnote "campers in disguise".

Anything to do with driving like a total ****. It ought to be a life time ban just for having a sticker like that. For not only knowing your driving is way below par but for believing that advertising it is a good idea. It's like a burglar wearing a neon shirt with "don't like me breaking your windows and nicking stuff dial 999-eat-effluent".

The very worst though are those monochrome grey ones fitted to front windows. No text or graphics just a plain sheet of dark grey sticker. 🤬

When I rode around Oz I kept seeing a sticker that said something like '****ers, all along the east coast' or something very similar. It seemed to be a parody of a lifestyle sticker I saw around Brisbane.

despite looking for one as a momento of my trip I never did see it again. Probably for the best as I have a lot of stickers not actually stuck to anything. Madame thinks I'm weird 🤔

"Sprinkled in fairy dust"
Only available on cars with pink fluffy steering wheel covers. 😕

I used to have a lot of "No Fat Chicks" stickers when I had surf vans.
Funnily they often got defaced, hence my buying in bulk.

Van parked round the corner has a FakeTaxi sticker?

I'd forgotten until now, but I once followed a car with a big "Fake Taxi" rear window sticker - and "L" plates. So many questions...

That sticker in the OP is a particularly bad one, but in general anyone putting stickers on their car has to be put in the same bucket as people with bonnet bras, number plates with the engine configuration/vehicle model details in it, tinted lights (I mean FFS the things that allow you to see/others see you), fake exhaust pipes, etc. I.e. a massive red flag that the driver is an absolute whopper.

I.e. a massive red flag that the driver is an absolute whopper.

The really good ones are when they have stickers saying they have buggered up the car sufficiently so it cant drive properly. Generally along the lines of "lowered car so cant drive over bumps".

Nyah, I've just got one which says 'Keep Cycling Weird'.

I'm sure that gets me a lot of respect on the road 😂

I have a sticker from the Deus Ex Machina shop in Sydney. Probably the coolest bike/custom/surf shop ever, also a LesArc and Powell Peralta stickers on the dash.

They are on my least cool 18year old Peugeot Partner/Berlingo!
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But then I did used to own this as well....
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in general anyone putting stickers on their car...

You sound like a right ray of ****ing sunshine.

The very worst though are those monochrome grey ones fitted to front windows. No text or graphics just a plain sheet of dark grey sticker. 🤬

Eh? A sunstrip? If that's what you mean they're bloody handy, I'm getting one for my C8 when I remember, too many bits the visors don't cover. Probably something a bit more discreet mind, I may just use tinting film.

I’m currently in the US and saw a big sticker in the back window of a Chevy Impala. Not the cool old one, the mundane recent one. It was about 2 ft in diameter, had the outline of a ladies pair of legs and the knickers around the knees. It was accompanied by the words “oh, you drive a Chevy, I guess I won’t be needing these”.
I mean really, who the hell thinks that’s appropriate or funny!?! Just flags them up as someone to avoid so perhaps it does have some use.

There's a heap parked outside the hotel I'm staying at with a massive "Powered by Pug farts" sticker across the whole boot lid.

Classy

The "don't touch my car" ones amuse me, it's so tempting.

I've got:

Insurance
Contrôle Technique
French pollution 1
German pollution 4
Swiss motorways 22
Pena Montesa camp site.

Some good examples of bad stuff above, but at least they are trying to be cool or funny. They aren’t succeeding mind

The worse ones IMO are converted vans covered in compass/mountain decals, especially if including the text ‘off on an adventure’ or even worse ‘camper van’. What are you even trying to achieve with that, cringe factor aside?

My bumper sticker says ‘Don’t be a dick’

I quite like the Buddha "don't be c..." Ones but I don't like identifying marks on my van.

The worse ones IMO are converted vans covered in compass/mountain decals,

I agree but the problem is that DVLA has more or less made this a requirement as to re-register a van as a camper it has to look like a camper from outside and they consider these horrible graphics what a camper should look like. This is dispite the fact that the looks like a camper argument is kind of circular.

My vit is "one life live it" stickers

As posted above 👆 Dick Trickle is a cult US racing driver (Cole Trickle in Days of Thunder is named as a homage) so whilst it's a bit off colour the sticker gets a pass for being genuine motorsport heritage.

I saw one this week, driven by a mature lady (with a pony tail) “if you are going to ride my ass at least pull my hair”. Pretty odd

Have seen a few small cars with ones saying "Pick on someone your own size!" recently. They were popular back in to late 90's on old Minis so guessing they're staging a comeback.

I agree but the problem is that DVLA has more or less made this a requirement as to re-register a van as a camper

But given that you can insure a van as a camper based only on the inside isn’t that a bit pointless?

My vit is “one life live it” stickers

This one though, always overweight blokes in beaten up Discoveries 😀

Not so much a sticker, but scrawled in the dirt on the back of one of our hire lorries where I worked years ago was "Keep Cornwall tidy, dump your rubbish in Devon". It spent a lot of time up and down the A30.

But given that you can insure a van as a camper based only on the inside isn’t that a bit pointless?

Its to be able to do car speeds innit ?

It's more to do with speedimits for vans/campers.
Mine is a van but insurered as a camper. I can only do van speeds though.
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'It might be a wreck but at least it's paid for'
'If you can read this my caravan's been stolen'

A modified BMW is always parked on double yellows near me with a ‘U mad bro?’ sticker on the front passenger side bumper. I do not trust the owner’s decision making capabilities.

Eh? A sunstrip? If that’s what you mean they’re bloody handy, I’m getting one for my C8 when I remember, too many bits the visors don’t cover.

No I meant the cretins who tint the front (side) windows so they can't see pedestrians and cyclists and other cars.

The only one on ours is "UK"

I’m all for stickers, and more generally, any modifications or personalisation of vehicles that don’t have an impact on safety. Too many bland euroboxes on the roads, and there’s a weird snootiness (demonstrated occasionally in this thread) that looks down on people who like to demonstrate a bit of individuality via their vehicles. Stickers etc can be both entertaining and informative about the driver. Sometimes not in the way intended, but that’s by the by, and useful too…

I have a small ‘built not bought’ sticker on the back on my labour of love landy.

Dick Trickle is a cult US racing driver 

Every day is a school day

I saw a "Limited to 186mph - Please Pass" sticker on the back of a mad Merc which made me smile

Not a sticker but…
One of our (council) minibuses was filthy so I wrote on the back, ‘No Time To Wash’, complete with the 007 logo.

@ the brick

I don’t like identifying marks on my van.

You have got one....your registration plate....

Yeah there is the speed limit thing, but it’s only 10mph less on dual carriageways and no difference on motorways, not exactly going to change your journey times in real life. Plus it only applies below 3.05t, which most of the cringy ones are above anyway so kind of another pointless one

Plus if you get a fine you’d have a chance at appealing it anyway, the letter I have from DVLA rejecting my change request clearly states that the DVLA classification is only for recognition in traffic and does not affect insurance or speed limits

Seen on holiday in Florida on a pickup truck - 'Sniper - don't run, you'll only die tired!'

Nicked from Wickipedia - Dick Trickle led quite a life it seems - fell two floors from a house under construction when he was 8 and broke his pelvis which led to three years in a waist high cast, a limp and pain for the rest of his life.
His nephew was also a racer but killed in a drive-by shooting. In the 90's NASCAR allowed drivers to smoke during yellow flag periods and Dick had a hole in his helmet for the cigarette and cigarette lighters fitted to his race car.
He committed suicide in 2013 by the grave of his granddaughter who had previously been killed in a car crash - having phoned the authorities to tell them there would be a body to find...

The timeless classic "Honk if Horny"

I admit I have never seen one in the flesh

On a Defender
‘One wife, livid!’

The only one I ever saw that didn't immediately make me want to see the occupants drive off a cliff was "My other car sticker is funny"

Oh yeah, the other car I’ve seen round here with stickers is a Vauxhall Corsa with an obnoxiously loud exhaust, and various incredibly sexist/harmless fun (delete as appropriate given your position on the current culture war) stickers along the lines of ‘my other ride’s your daughter’ etc.

I understand a desire to personalise things if that’s what floats your boat, everyone has their own hobbies. But why would you choose something that so obviously advertises your own Neanderthal opinions?

In Aus someone was selling purposefully fake Northern Territory tourism board stickers, CU in the NT

They're pretty popular all over Oz.

One I made for my Nissan Leaf

Just saw a very crap 53 plate transit connect in Merthyr, “living the dream” plastered all over. Go for it, I thought, aim high.
Worst I’ve been asked to make was for a trucker. “Phantom knicker sniffer” on the back of his truck. Classy!

It’s more to do with speedimits for vans/campers.
Mine is a van but insurered as a camper. I can only do van speeds though.

Not so, but the misinformation continues to propagate.

If less than 3.05 tonnes unladen weight (as defined by base van manufacturer) and fulfils the definition of a 'motor caravan' (seats, table, bed, cooking facilities & storage) then the reduced limits for vans don't apply.

ANPR speed cameras use DVLA data though, so there is the possibility of being wrongly identified as speeding if the DVLA choose not to reclassify.

I like seeing the Transformers badges on cars. Had a Totorro sticker on my last car.

When in art college I bought a load of the Christian Fish stickers and stuck them on cars in the car park 🤣 hilarious I was!

I keep meaning to put a Pistonheads one on my EV.

Timely thread, this popped up in my FB memories today. I snuck these on to my exes 7 seater

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I’ve just got this for my car, should annoy a few idiots

https://shop.road.cc/product/stay-awesome-window-sticker

On a truck in Pahrump, California with bullet holes in the back - ‘Missed me bitch’.

On a truck in Pahrump, California with bullet holes in the back – ‘Missed me bitch’.

They were aiming at his dog and shot his car instead? 😁

A friend gave me one from their visit to the us and after I helped her and her husband move house, “Yes this is my truck, no I won’t help you move.”

Also lots of RIP ones for the actor from Fast and furious. Bit odd, I thought. He Wes acting the part not actually the person in the movie franchise. Maybe I’m missing something.

I saw one this week, driven by a mature lady (with a pony tail) “if you are going to ride my ass at least pull my hair”. Pretty odd

Odd how? No different to the usual "if you're going to screw me at least buy me dinner" trope.

Also lots of RIP ones for the actor from Fast and furious. Bit odd, I thought. He Wes acting the part not actually the person in the movie franchise. Maybe I’m missing something.

Paul Walker?

He acted the part of Brian O'Conner. What you're missing is that he was a huge car enthusiast and died in a car crash several years ago, many folk credit him with promoting the modified car scene via F&F and he was popular as a result.

I’ve just got this for my car, should annoy a few idiots

https://shop.road.cc/product/stay-awesome-window-sticker/blockquote >

Even as an evangelical utility cyclist, I can't help cringe when I see them. It's nice to be shown solidarity for people who are more often villified in the same situation, but it always strikes me as hideously self-aggrandizing.

Perhaps I'll put that catchy rebuttal on a sticker on my car as a counterpoint 😄

 

When I were a lad we had triangular flags in the window advertising where we had been on holiday. St Ives, Tintagel, that sort of thing. Though in our case it was more likely Bridlington, Scarborough, Filey, Reighton Gap.

@squirrelking. Fair enough.

On a Defender
‘One wife, livid!’

I love that

I've had a Cyclists Stay Awesome sticker since they were first available.

When I were a lad we had triangular flags in the window advertising where we had been on holiday.

Just added a pair of Caithness and Orkney flags to my shitbox, keeping it old school!

I used to be partial to a silly sticker, had this on my Bluebird afew years back (I appreciated the irony)

Dont bother now TBH, that said I'm all for other people doing it within reason.

Not a particularly clear image but saw this on a van on my way to work once.

Still trying to work out if it's humourous or not.

I've a

F C K
P T N

sticker in blue and yellow on my van.

Mate printed 3500 off them and we've been plastering Munich with them since March.
Car sharing motors, buses and Ukrainian motors get one.

"If you can read this your to close" [sic].

The Darwin fish ones make me smile.
Used to see a 50 year old fella in a clapped out 3 series saloon, various boy racer accessories with ‘nuff respect to the max’ in large letters across the bottom of both doors.

Saw a minibus yesterday with a ‘no passengers left in the vehicle overnight’ sticker.

I have, for a while now, wanted to get a sticker saying "the only tool in this van is the driver". One of these days....

@mattoutandabout yup, I saw a van with that one it, heading up the M6 a few months ago. It made oi larfff.

I saw a “Limited to 186mph – Please Pass” sticker on the back of a mad Merc which made me smile

Out for a ride a couple of hours ago I saw a "limited to 186mph" sticker on a vectra. Seemed a bit wishful, also made me smile.

There's a HiAce van round the corner from us with a large one of these on:

Being near some fishing places you see a few similarly OTT fishing themed stickers. For men (mostly) that apparently sit around next to water doing very little the fishing community do seem to love a ridiculous vehicle decal...

There’s a parent at my kid’s school with a ‘fake taxi’ sticker on their people carrier. Odd..

I’ve got a “cyclists…stay awesome” one that the CTC did a few years back (to look like the CYCLISTS - STAY BACK ones that did the rounds on BT vans etc)

DrP

Used to see lots of stickers on ex-Motability cars, various stick families, flowers, butterflies, paw prints, ‘cool baby on board’ with a baby wearing large sunglasses.
Cars we get in now tend not to be embellished like that. We do have a lot of cars with big stickers advertising driving schools, but they’re legit, and I put the stickers on.

I have two small stickers on my car, a small blue SunGod logo sticker on the back window just by the side of the wiper, and a small round Mindless Longboards decal in the top corner.
Sue me.

Needing to spend money on new 'UK' stickers to take the car to Europe, when it already had a perfectly functional GB one (as well as number plates with the GB that now needs covering) is weird.

I also have a Cyclists Stay Awesome sticker on the rear of my van. It has faded to almost white now so could do with a replacement.