This is more curiosity than anything else. For ages, I carried my toll pass in the side pocket and waved it at the sensor as I went onto toll roads. I sometimes jammed it between the aero screen and the windscreen until it came loose one day and broke into a number of pieces on a sweeping corner approaching a toll road. Fortunately, I collected all the bits and glued them back together.
I then attacked it with Silastik and tried to make it waterproof. Rubbed the silicon sealant into all the joins. I mounted it out of sight behind the rearview mirror. In the last month, it stopped working after a couple of years. I enquired about a new one and explained that it was for a sports car and was subject to the elements. What do they suggest I do? What do bikes use?
The customer service guy had no idea and went away to check. After about ten minutes he said they were not supposed to be waterproof, and I should just keep it in a dry place. Where that is in a TR during a downpour I am yet to discover. Bikes don't have a device. They use number plate recognition. For cars, they charge 55 cents per plate ID. I expect I will do the Silastik thing again although the new one is a smaller model than my dead unit which dated to about 2010. Maybe it is more sealed.
I was wondering what other people do? Do you have it attached to your windscreen? Do you just wave it as I once did? Do you have revolving number plates like James Bond?
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