Vignette fine in Austria

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Vignette fine in Austria

I recently hired a car in Munich, Germany and was staying in Mayrhofen Austria. I travelled 2,600km on Austrian/German/Italian roads in 7 days, I paid 8 euros for vignette into Austria.

They have fined me 130 euros and said I had no vignette (according to camera) the car hire company want to take it off the credit card.

I do not know how to fight it, the broker in uk, holiday autos cannot help, and Thrifty Germany cannot either.

Yet my car was checked 3 times by police at the roadworks at Jenbach/Innsbruck with no problem

I have a witness (but shes a relation) that I bought vignette, but I am at a loss as to what to do as they are trying to extort money for no reason!

Asked on 17 August 2012 by raveninwhite

Answered by Honest John

Unless you have proof that you bought the vignette I can't see a way out of this. And if it's the same as the one for Switzerland, once it is stuck to the car's screen it cannot be removed without destroying it.

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