What is this? (Picture)

[danzman1991]

It's at the bottom of the windscreen in the middle on a Ph1 172

Looks like a heads up display or something?

May be me being stupid or something but I've never seen it before!

Cheers,
Dan.

 

[tanker]

Is it not the rain or auto light sensor?

 

[Budgie]

Nope, it's a gap in the window tinting for pre-paid cards on french motorways, iirc.

They all 'ave 'em.

 

[Revels]

It's because the windscreen is coated. There's a lot of tolls in France so you put your card thingy there so it can be read by the toll machines.

 

[Jon.G]

Nope, it's a gap in the window tinting for pre-paid cards on french motorways, iirc.

They all 'ave 'em.

this exactly.
They all have them.

 

[Gally]

Pmsl! I wondered this for years when I had the clio!

 

[Inferno]

It's a very oddly shaped gear stick.

 

[sava001006]

it a gap in the uv tinting so that pre paid cards can be seen by camera ones like what you get in london and france etc

 

[gunner3011]

its as everyone above said. thats why if you get your windscreen replaced you have to state that it has the gap in the window as they are higher quality than what they will try to flog you otherwise ( according to autoglass anyway! )

 

[danzman1991]

Whats the gearstick diagram got to do with the prepaid cards in France though?!

 

[Will.]

That makes more sense than the "it's for clearer sat nav signal" reason someone told me once.

 

[JCC]

Whats the gearstick diagram got to do with the prepaid cards in France though?!

All Ph1s have it on the windscreen because it's not written on the gearknob.