Lay My Hat

I just got a couple of these done and stuck them on the car this afternoon.



I parked it a the local supermarket and waited five minutes for my wife to nip in and pick up some stuff. A very nice lady asked me if I'd mind her photographing it so she could have a record of the web address for when she got home.

I didn't try to explain about the QR code to her.

So - looks like it may have been £15 well spent.

The great thing is I can just peel them off anytime I don't want to be Mr Lodges.

Hi Windy,
Nice idea! Could you post a photo of the car with it on to get an idea of size?

Your wish is as ever my command LV



To be honest I wish I'd gone for the bigger size of magnet now so it would be easier to read from a distance. It wouldn't have cost a huge amount more if I recall.

You can buy the A4 sheets of magnetic paper to go thru the printer. (I can get them for £1 per sheet). If you have a laser printer the ink will fix fine on them if you want a DIY version.

Sounds interesting - where do you get them from and are they reliably magnetic?

Like it, Mr Lodges! Excellent because you can remove it when you want to, for example, going to the day job.
Nice car

I like this idea too (and the car - Mr Lodges obviously does too well ....)

How could I use it - should it be in French or English (or both) - who are you trying to attract, assuming that you live in the area? Is it people who are already on holiday, who don't like where they're staying, but who like the area???

Answers on a postcard, please ...

LOL

Mr Lodges currently has two jobs which help fund a 4 year old car

I'll leave the magnets on round home but they will probably be more useful driving round where the lodges are.

You could have one of each - one for each door Caroline.

When I said I wanted to be a property magnate I think somebody misheard.

I think it's a brilliant idea

Windy wrote:LOL

Mr Lodges currently has two jobs which help fund a 4 year old car

It's just a French, bumped and scratched car jealously kind of thing

I'll leave the magnets on round home but they will probably be more useful driving round where the lodges are.

Windy wrote:You could have one of each - one for each door Caroline.

Is that one for the guys that are driving on the left and one for those who drive on the right? Sounds a little dangerous to me

Windy wrote:When I said I wanted to be a property magnate I think somebody misheard.

It's just a French, bumped and scratched car jealously kind of thing

haha -

well you can't see my rear right bumper can you.

Mind you anyone who tries to keep a unscathed car in a town populated mainly by octogenarians who think a parking sensor is what happens when the tilt alarm goes off on the car you just hit is asking for trouble.

Here's our old truck:



We are just about to trade it in on a new old truck... Will go with a professionally painted sign on the replacement truck, too.

Ah you must live in Lytham too?

Just a quick follow up.

Leaving magnets on the door for any length of tie resulted in fogging of the metallic paint under the magnets.

As you can imagine I wasn't over the moon to think I needed to respray the doors or have odd rectangular patches on them.

However, exposure to heat and sunlight slowly returned things to normal.

I have stopped using the magnets on the car doors now though

Maybe T-shirts are the way forward?

In my case the most problem would probably be that I would have a clean rectangle where the sign had been... (always dirtiest car on the street)