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Use a clothes peg to secure parking tickets on your dashboard.

Parking tickets need never fall off the dashboard with the end result of a Penalty Notice. We use a Blu-tacked clothes peg to clip the valid parking ticket onto the dashboard, with no risk of the ticket moving as the door is closed.

Asked on 5 May 2012 by RW, via email

Answered by Honest John
Good idea. Lots of recent cars have parking ticket clips inside the windscreens. Common on SAABs, Volvos and Skodas, but even Fiestas now have these.
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