doctor’s car

[Hugh Potter]

pretty sure they’re all yellow/green reflective mate, H

[Andy Gorman]

Rich, yes as Hugh said yellow and green for the chevrons at something like 45 degrees. I don’t know if there is a material requirement but I have seen engineering grade on doctor’s cars and I have never seen one done in high conspicuity (diamond grade etc). The normal width of a chevron is 6″. You will sometimes see chevrons using fluorescent yellow with reflective green.

Although there are regulations for this sort of thing, most Police forces/ambulances etc don’t stick to them. Going on the regs, most old bill cars are illegal.

[John Singh]

Is that right Andy

Then I think we should start throwing the book at them :lol1: :police3: (grab)

[Lorraine Clinch]

The doctor-on-call car where I work has a green ‘doctor’ on bonnet, reversed, and the chevrons are yellow & red on the rear.

[Paul Rollason]

Ask you supplier before using fluorescent yellow as it has a very short lifespan and you don’t want the conpany comming back three months down the line complaining that the stuff has faded.

We had a bonnet graphic fade out in three months

paul r

[Richard Urquhart]

thanks all
i didn’t want to but have emailed the and told the to I’ve me a spec for this good as i don’t know what grade of vinyl to use

how hard is it to do as the back of the car has many curves and after working with lg reflective its not very good at conforming to the curves

thanks rich

[Andy Gorman]

Depends how you are going to do it Rich.
If you want to make the kit up on the bench, then make a template on the car out of something that is as rigid as the reflective. Cut it to shape to get the overall shape. Section it if necessary to cope with any impossible curves. Then tape the template to the car and mark the chevrons in it in pen. You can then use this to cut your chevrons.

The easier way for a one-off, is to take some stripes at the correct width and build up the chevrons as you go. Offer a stripe up to the car and mark where it needs cutting and cut it with scissors before you apply it.

Does any of that make sense?

[Lorraine Clinch]

Hi Richard, don’t know if you have progressed with this yet, but have taken a pic of the car for our local HA.
If you want to have a butchers, let me know, as I cant upload it here.

If not, no worries.