Single-Sided Glass Fibre Feather Flag with Drive-On Car Base inc. Graphic Printing - 5m

Raise a 5m Feather Flag Over a Car Forecourt

A forecourt has one job before anybody walks out to greet a customer, and that is getting drivers to turn in. The stock is the product, but from the road it sits below the hedge line and behind the cars in front of it. The FF5000CB puts a name above all of it. Five metres up, the artwork clears the roofs of vans and 4x4s, and the feather shape keeps moving, which is what catches a driver who was not looking for you. Underneath, a flat steel plate takes a parked wheel, so nothing is drilled into a surface you may not own, and nothing is left behind when the flag moves on. The whole kit weighs 4kg and goes up in roughly two minutes by hand alone. Your artwork is printed before despatch. Best suited for dealerships, car washes and roadside service sites where the surface is hard and the layout shifts from one week to the next.

Why a Drive-On Flag Base Suits Working Tarmac

• A parked wheel is the anchor: A steel plate lies flat on tarmac, concrete or block paving and a vehicle rolls onto one edge. Nothing is drilled, nothing is glued down and nothing is filled with water. Lift the plate at close of business and the surface is as it started.
• Height that clears the stock: The artwork sits above the roofline of vans, 4x4s and larger commercial vehicles. On a lot two or three rows deep, anything shorter disappears behind the front row the moment the pitch fills up with cars for the weekend.
• Movement a static sign cannot match: The long tapered shape shifts in whatever air is about, and the eye goes to movement before it reads a fixed panel. Against a row of boards, banners and windscreen cards, that constant motion is what separates one forecourt from the next.
• Repositions in under a minute: Drive the anchoring vehicle off, move the plate beside a feature car and drive any other vehicle onto it. The whole flag relocates faster than a row of price cards, which matters where the display 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 rather than piling onto the plate below. Open tarmac funnels wind between buildings, and this is what keeps a five-metre 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 separate print firm at any stage of it.

Where a 5m Custom Printed Flag Belongs

A car dealership forecourt has one job before any salesperson opens their mouth: get drivers to turn in. The vehicles on the lot are the product, but they are invisible from the road unless something above them catches the eye first. The 5m Single-Sided Glass Fibre Feather Flag with drive-on car base is that something. At 5 metres it clears the roofline of every vehicle on the lot, puts your brand into the sightline of approaching traffic and creates the kind of motion and visual authority that static forecourt signage cannot replicate.

The drive-on steel base is what makes this flag practical for a working forecourt. It sits flat on tarmac or block paving and anchors under the wheel of any parked vehicle. No bolts into the surface. No drilled fixings. No adhesive residue. No planning implications. You can deploy it at the forecourt entrance at 8am, reposition it beside a feature vehicle at lunchtime and remove it entirely at close of business without leaving a mark on the surface. That zero-footprint flexibility is critical on a site where the display layout changes with every vehicle that arrives or leaves.

The glass fibre pole is engineered for the exposed, open conditions that forecourts actually experience. Wind funnels across tarmac, between buildings and around parked vehicles in unpredictable gusts. A rigid aluminium pole transfers that stress directly to the base and, if it fails, risks falling onto vehicles. Glass fibre absorbs the energy aerodynamically, flexing with the wind and returning to position. It is rated for conditions up to 45km/h and is non-marking and paintwork-safe, which matters when your flag stands a metre from vehicles worth tens of thousands of pounds.

The complete kit weighs 4kg, assembles in around 2 minutes by one person and packs into a soft carry bag included as standard. When your branding changes, your manufacturer co-branding updates or you need a new message for an event weekend, get in touch with our team to arrange a new printed flag for the same pole and base. The hardware is built for years of daily forecourt use.

Complete Flag Kit Contents

• 1 x single-sided custom-printed polyester feather flag (690mm x 3860mm)
• 1 x sectional glass fibre pole (5m assembled height)
• 1 x GRP whip for feather curve
• 1 x drive-on steel car base
• 1 x soft carry bag for transport