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If our laws were really so picky, half the vehicles out there would be off the road.
I could easily make a daily compilation of at least a couple of dozen vehicles falling foul of the 'don't mount on the windscreen' regs.
The worst case I've ever seen was in a small sports car (MG, mazda or similar) where the windscreen was miniscule & the driver had a satnav mounted directly in front of their face and a mobile phone mounted alongside.
Things seem to have toughened up in the last year.
My next door neighbour's car failed its MoT due to a National Trust sticker above the tax disc holder (both about 2.5"/8cm in size) but it had passed in previous years. And that's low down all the way over the opposite side of the windscreen, adjacent to the windscreen pillar.
Another neighbour failed due to a satnav stuck to the lower central portion of the windscreen.
Quite a few cars are given advisories 'had to remove (suction-mounted) objects from windscreen'. If the object is stuck I expect it would be a fail.
My wife keeps getting advisories for two 'stars' (stone ships) (<10mm) in the driver's field of view. She didn't have any trouble with a dashcam in her MoT just last week but it was high up on the passenger side of the rear view mirror; only blocking view of the sky and arguably, due to the viewing angle from the driver's seat, the line of sight goes through the unswept area of the windscreen anyway. I'll see about a picture if I get a chance later (she's out at the moment).
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