Single-Sided Glass Fibre Feather Flag with Drive-On Car Base inc. Graphic Printing - 3.2m
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Brand a Forecourt With a 3.2m Feather Flag
A branded forecourt is a selling forecourt, but the surface underneath makes that harder than it sounds. Tarmac cannot be drilled, a landlord rarely allows anything permanent, and whatever stands loose on the ground either blows over or ends up obstructing vehicle movements. The FF3200CB settles all three with a steel plate that a display vehicle parks across. At 3.2 metres the artwork rises clear of saloon and hatchback roofs, so a driver approaching from either direction reads a name before reaching the entrance. The feather shape keeps moving in whatever air is about, which is what catches somebody who was not looking for you. The kit weighs 3.4kg and goes up in a couple of minutes. Your artwork is printed before despatch. Best suited for dealerships, service centres and sales events where the ground is hard and the layout shifts week to week.
Why This Outdoor Advertising Flag Suits Hard Ground
- A parked wheel is the anchor: The steel plate lies flat on tarmac, concrete or paving and a display vehicle rolls onto one edge. Nothing is drilled, nothing is glued down and nothing needs filling with water, so a leased forecourt stays exactly as the landlord left it.
- Height that clears the stock: The artwork sits well above the roofs of saloons, hatchbacks and most crossovers on the pitch. Passing traffic reads a name above the vehicle line rather than hunting for it between the cars parked along a frontage.
- Movement a static sign cannot match: The long tapered shape shifts constantly, and the eye goes to motion well before it registers a fixed panel. Against a row of boards and windscreen cards, that is what separates one forecourt from the next one along.
- Repositions in under a minute: Drive the anchoring vehicle off, carry the plate beside a feature car and drive any other vehicle onto it. The display moves faster than a row of price cards, which matters where the layout changes with every part-exchange.
- Rated to gusts of 45km/h: Composite gives under a gust and springs back, so the force runs up the pole instead of piling onto the plate below. Open tarmac funnels wind between buildings, and this is what keeps a flag standing through an exposed afternoon.
- Printing comes with the order: Full colour goes onto the polyester before despatch. A template arrives inside a day of ordering and our team checks the file you send back for colour and for layout, so there is nothing to arrange with a print firm.
Where a Custom Printed Dealership Flag Works Best
| New and Used Car Dealerships | Flags spaced along a road-facing boundary pull traffic in off the carriageway. The plate moves along with the layout as stock arrives and leaves across the trading week, with nothing fixed into the ground. |
| Sale Weekends and Launch Days | Branding goes out on the Friday and comes in again on Monday with the forecourt back to normal. No fixings to unbolt, no holes to fill in and nothing at all showing afterwards where any of them stood. |
| Motorcycle and Specialist Showrooms | Exposed bodywork sits close to everything on a pitch of this kind, so a composite pole is a much calmer neighbour than steel would be. The plate tucks in beside a machine without any fixings at all going down. |
| Multi-Brand Franchise Forecourts | Separate marques and campaigns all need marking across a single site without any shared infrastructure. Each flag stands on a plate of its own, so any of them can swap zones as the stock changes around. |
| Valeting Bays and Service Centres | Customer entrances, collection areas and promotional zones all need marking on ground carrying constant vehicle movement. Nothing obstructs the access, the manoeuvring or the surface drainage on site. |
| Caravan, Motorhome and Van Sites | Larger vehicles create sightline problems that ground-level signage never solves. This height reads above a van roof right across a wide open display area, and the plate repositions as the stock rotates. |
Need More Height, or Going on Grass?
Across a wider pitch selling vans and SUVs, the 5m drive-on flag carries a name further on the same plate. Where a boundary is grassed, the ground spike version pushes straight in.
Call us on 01279460460 or tell us the surface you are working on and we will say which base fits.
FF3200CB is a 3.2m Single-Sided Glass Fibre Feather Flag with Drive-On Car Base from Displaysense. What marks it out is a mid-height feather on a steel base plate weighed down by a parked vehicle, for hard surfaces where a spike cannot be used. Also known as a forecourt flag, a dealership flag or a custom printed advertising flag. Total assembled height 3200mm. Complete kit weight 3.4kg. Wind rated to 45km/h. Multi-section glass fibre pole with a bent tip holding the feather shape. Steel drive-on car base for tarmac, concrete and paving. Flag material polyester. Single-sided full-colour print, included. Soft carry bag included. Tool-free assembly by one person in under two minutes. Artwork template supplied inside a day. Production three to five working days from artwork approval. Made to order from customer artwork, so returns are not available. Used at car dealerships, forecourts, sale weekends, launch days, motorcycle showrooms, specialist showrooms, franchise sites, valeting bays, service centres, bodyshops, caravan sites, motorhome sites and commercial vehicle depots. Other heights are 5m and 2.3m, other bases are a ground spike and a 10.5kg square plate. Displaysense, UK display product specialists since 1978.
Every dealership manager knows the problem. The forecourt needs branded signage that catches traffic from the road, but the surface cannot be drilled, the landlord will not allow permanent fixtures and anything left freestanding on tarmac either blows over or gets in the way of vehicle movements. The drive-on base solves all three. It sits flat on the ground, locks under the wheel of a display vehicle already in position and holds the full 3.2m flag in wind speeds up to 45km/h. When the flag needs to move, the vehicle drives off, the base lifts, and the surface underneath is unmarked. Zero footprint. Zero compromise.
The glass fibre pole is the right material for an environment surrounded by high-value paintwork. Rigid aluminium and steel poles can scratch, chip and mark bodywork if the wind moves them into contact with a vehicle. Glass fibre flexes away from contact rather than into it, and the composite surface will not abrade paint or lacquer even in sustained proximity. On a forecourt where a single scratch on a bonnet can cost more than the flag itself, that material choice is not a detail. It is a requirement.
The Aero-Light single-sided print keeps the flag responsive in the open, exposed conditions that every forecourt operates in. A heavier double-sided flag with an internal blackout liner catches more wind, loads more stress onto the pole and the base, and hangs flat in calm conditions rather than maintaining the feather shape. The single-sided construction keeps the display in motion, keeps the shape defined and keeps the pole working within its designed flex range across the full day, every day, for the duration of the campaign.
At 3.4kg, the entire kit fits in the included soft carry bag. One member of the sales team can carry it from the office to the forecourt, have the flag up in under two minutes and store it away at the end of the day. For dealership groups running the same promotion across multiple sites, the kits move between branches in the boot of a courtesy car.
What Ships with This Forecourt Flag Kit
- 1 x single-sided custom printed polyester feather flag
- 1 x multi-section glass fibre pole with flexible GRP whip
- 1 x steel drive-on car base for tarmac and hard surfaces
- 1 x soft carry bag for transport and storage
Need Flags on Grass Borders Rather Than the Forecourt Surface?
The ground spike version of this flag anchors directly into grass, turf or soft ground. Ideal for dealerships with landscaped perimeters or verge-side positions alongside the approach road.
Call us on 01279460460 or send us your requirements.
The Displaysense 3.2m Single-Sided Glass Fibre Feather Flag with Drive-On Car Base inc. Graphic Printing is a professional outdoor feather flag kit with a multi-section glass fibre pole, flexible GRP whip, single-sided full-colour dye-sublimation printed polyester flag and steel drive-on car base. Total height: 3200mm. Total kit weight: 3.4kg. Wind rated to 45km/h. Glass fibre pole is paintwork-safe. Drive-on base anchors under a vehicle wheel with no drilling. Tool-free assembly in under 2 minutes. Soft carry bag included. Custom printing included. Also available with ground spike base, in 2.3m and 5m heights, and in teardrop shape. Displaysense, UK display product specialists since 1978.
Technical reference for the 3.2m single-sided glass fibre feather flag with drive-on car base, model FF3200CB. This is the mid height in the feather range. Height, base type and kit weight are the three worth checking against the site before ordering.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
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| Total Height | 3200mm | Clears the roofline of saloons, hatchbacks and most crossovers, so passing traffic sees a name above the vehicle line well before reaching the entrance. |
| Base | Steel drive-on car base | Lies flat on tarmac, concrete or paving and a parked wheel weighs it down. Nothing drilled, nothing glued, and the surface underneath is left unmarked. |
| Flag Shape | Feather | The long tapered outline carries branding from base to tip and keeps moving in whatever air is about, which draws the eye where a static sign does not. |
| Repositioning | Drive off, move plate, drive on | The whole display relocates in under a minute, which suits a forecourt where the layout shifts with every part-exchange that arrives on site. |
| Pole | Multi-section glass fibre with a bent tip | Gives with a gust and recovers instead of snapping, so there is no broken section to drop onto a bonnet. The bent tip is what forms the feather shape. |
| Wind Rating | Up to 45km/h | Covers the open, funnelled conditions between buildings on a forecourt. Take the flag in above that rating rather than leaving one over stock. |
| Single-sided, full colour, heat-set | Colour goes into the polyester fibres rather than onto the surface, so it will not crack, peel or fade. The reverse reads as a mirror image. | |
| Flag Fabric | Polyester | Holds its shape through daily deployment, resists fraying along the edges and keeps colour bright across a full season of outdoor use and storage. |
| Kit Weight | 3.4kg complete | Pole, flag, base and bag all together. One member of the sales team carries the lot from the office out to the forecourt in a single hand. |
| Assembly | Tool-free, one person, under two minutes | Pole sections slot together, the flag slides over them and the plate goes down flat. Out before the showroom opens, away after the last customer. |
| Artwork Template | Sent within 24 hours of order | Marked up with sizing and bleed guidance, so a design can follow the order rather than hold it up. Files are checked for colour before going to press. |
| Production | 3 to 5 working days from approval | The clock starts at artwork approval and not at checkout. Each flag is printed for the order it belongs to, so returns are not available on it. |
Print to order. We handle the artwork process with you.
We send a template, you submit your artwork, we produce once approved.
Delivery
Free
UK Mainland, Zone 1
Lead time
3 to 5 days
From artwork approval
Template sent
Within 24hrs
After your order is placed
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Non-returnable unless faulty
How It Works
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1You
Place your order
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We email you a print template
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Submit your artwork
Follow the template instructions and email your artwork back to us.
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We review and approve
If anything needs adjusting we will contact you. Once approved, your order enters production.
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Production and dispatch
Lead time begins from artwork approval, not your order date.
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Questions About This 3.2m Forecourt Flag
Q: What is the best flag for a dealership forecourt?
A: The FF3200CB suits that job particularly well. A flat steel plate lies on the tarmac and a parked wheel weighs it down, so nothing gets drilled and no ballast needs filling with water on site. At 3200mm the artwork clears the roofline of saloons and hatchbacks, and the design you supply is printed on before despatch.
Q: How does a drive-on car base flag work?
A: Lay the plate down wherever the flag is wanted, then reverse or pull forward until a tyre is sitting squarely on one corner of it. That is the whole installation. The weight of the vehicle holds the flag upright, and lifting the plate away afterwards leaves the surface underneath unmarked.
Q: How tall is this swooper flag once assembled?
A: It stands 3200mm from the plate right up to the tip. That clears saloons, hatchbacks and most crossovers while stopping short of the taller 5m version. It suits a forecourt two rows deep, or any frontage where a taller flag would be more than the space actually asks for.
Q: Will this forecourt flag base damage tarmac?
A: No, none at all. The plate spreads its load right across the whole face rather than pressing down on any one spot, and nothing at all is drilled, glued or pinned into the ground underneath. When the flag comes down the plate lifts straight off and the surface is exactly as it was found.
Q: Can I move this advertising flag during the day?
A: Yes, and very quickly indeed. Drive the anchoring vehicle off, carry the plate across to its new position and drive any other vehicle onto it. The whole display relocates in under a minute, which suits a forecourt where the layout changes with every part-exchange that comes in.
Q: Should I choose the 3.2m or the 5m feather flag?
A: Go by what you actually have on the pitch. Saloons, hatchbacks and crossovers are all cleared at 3.2m, which keeps the flag in proportion to a smaller frontage. Vans, SUVs, motorhomes and larger commercial vehicles all sit high enough that the 5m version starts to earn its extra reach.
Q: What wind is this outdoor feather flag rated for?
A: Up to 45km/h, which is what most people would call a strong breeze. The glass fibre pole gives along its length and springs straight back, spreading the load upwards instead of piling it all onto the plate below. Open tarmac funnels wind between buildings, so take the flag in above that rating.
Q: Is a glass fibre pole sensible around vehicles?
A: Composite is much the calmer option to have standing near bodywork. The pole bends under load and recovers instead of snapping outright, so no broken section ever comes down onto a bonnet below, and the material itself is gentler against a panel than metal would be during a strong blow.
Q: Will my branding show on the back of the flag?
A: Yes, in reverse. Artwork is printed on one face and the colour comes through the polyester itself, so the back of it reads as a mirror image of the front graphic. That suits most forecourt positions well, since a flag standing beside a boundary tends to be approached from one direction.
Q: Can I run several flags across a forecourt?
A: Yes, as many as the frontage will take. Each kit stands on its own plate beneath its own vehicle, so nothing whatsoever is shared between any of them. Space them along a road frontage, at an entrance or beside feature cars, and the layout follows the stock arrangement rather than any fixed infrastructure.
Q: Do I need flag artwork ready before ordering?
A: No, and that is quite deliberate. Order first and a template arrives inside a day carrying the print area and all the file guidance you need. Work the design up from there, send the file back over to us, and production starts only once the proof has been agreed between both sides.
Q: Is UK delivery included with this custom printed flag?
A: Delivery to the UK mainland costs nothing at all. Everything arrives inside the carry bag with the artwork already printed onto it, so a flag is standing within just a couple of minutes of the box being opened up. Each one is made to your own artwork, so returns are not available.
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