A Mid-Height Double-Sided Teardrop Flag for Hard Forecourts

Between the tall flags that shout down a dual carriageway and the little ones that tuck under a canopy sits the everyday forecourt teardrop, and that is the mid-height TF3200DC. A rounded sweep of branding rides a curved glass fibre pole on a flat drive-on base: roll a vehicle wheel onto the plate and its weight holds the flag, with no stake and no digging. Each face is printed on its own panel around an opaque core, so the message reads forward to drivers from either direction. The mid-range height clears parked cars and reads from the road without needing the clearance a 5m flag wants. Best suited for car dealerships, forecourt shops and trade counters where the surface is hard and a vehicle can hold it in place.

Why This Teardrop Display Fits the Everyday Forecourt

• A solid graphic on both faces: Two printed panels are built around an opaque core, so each side keeps its own correct image that the other never shows through pale and reversed. With cars passing both ways, the offer reads properly to every driver, and the print is part of the order, so you send art and it comes back finished.
• A base a wheel holds down: The flat steel plate has a socket the pole drops into, and you roll a car, van or trailer wheel onto it. The vehicle's weight does the anchoring, far more firmly than a portable weight, so nothing is staked in and nothing carried once a wheel sits on the plate.
• A height that works anywhere on the forecourt: Tall enough to clear parked cars and read from the road, yet short enough to stand without the clearance a 5m flag needs, the mid size is the all-rounder that suits most forecourt spots without fuss, which is why it is the height most sites reach for first.
• A rounded shape that reads in light air: The curved pole holds the teardrop taut, so the graphic stays open and legible even when the wind drops. It will not sag into a slack wrap around the pole the way a flat banner does on a still day.
• A pole that gives in the gusts: The glass fibre mast and its GRP whip bend and recover in a blow rather than standing rigid, so out on an open forecourt the flag rides a breeze of up to 45 kph (28 mph) where a stiff pole would fail.
• Quick to move around the site: Drive the wheel off and the flag frees in seconds; the pole splits into sections and the fabric rolls into the bag supplied, so one person repositions it without tools. A year-long guarantee covers it against manufacturing faults.

Where This Forecourt Banner Pulls Its Weight

Run a single-layer flag and its reverse reads faint and back-to-front. This one builds two printed panels around an opaque core, so each side keeps a solid, correct graphic that the other never shows through. On a forecourt with cars passing both ways, that two-sided make-up is what lets the offer read properly to every driver, whichever direction they arrive from, rather than only those approaching the front, which on a forecourt with two-way traffic is half the cars going by.

Shaped like its name, the teardrop is a rounded sail drawn tight by a pole that curves across its top. Held under that tension, the graphic stays open and readable even as the wind eases, where a flat rectangular flag would fold against its pole. The mast is glass fibre, fine glass strands in resin for a light, springy pole, and it is capped with a GRP whip that flexes in a gust. The inner pole diameter is 16.8mm across the range, so fittings carry over between flags, letting you mix poles, bases and spares across a forecourt set without hunting for matching parts.

Anchoring the flag is a drive-on base, a flat steel plate with a socket for the pole foot. You set it on hard ground, roll a vehicle wheel onto it, and the car's weight holds the flag steady, with no stake and far more grip than a portable weight could give. Because the hold comes from the wheel, it belongs on hard standing: forecourts, car parks and paved frontages. There is no soft ground in the mix, so where the pitch is grass or a verge the ground spike base is the right pick instead, sinking a stake into the earth where a plate would have nothing to grip.

Colour goes into the cloth by dye sublimation, where heat turns the inks to gas and drives them into the polyester so they dye the fabric itself, not just its surface. A graphic set that way holds its colour through sun and rain on a forecourt and copes with repeated rolling without lifting. A printed area of 698mm by 2067mm fills each face. Send the artwork over, both sides are produced for you, and the flag builds by hand in around two minutes, with no tools and only a wheel to roll onto the base at the end.

What Ships in Your Pack

• 1 x 3m double-sided glass fibre teardrop flag, printed on both faces from your artwork
• 1 x steel drive-on car base
• 1 x carry bag