The 2014
Huron-Clinton Metroparks /
Oakland County Parks pass is much lower quality than the ones from past years. Starting this year the sticker has a few changes which make it much harder to apply: the backing is split instead of starting at a tab at the top, and the white background fill is alcohol soluble. Because of the split backing I had a much harder time applying it and ended up with a slightly wrinkled sticker, and cleaning the window post-application wiped off some of the white paint and left it smeared all over the window. With the tear-off top of the decal being perforated along the top of the decal itself this also means that the top edge is rough and can’t be evenly smoothed.
I much prefer the older style decal, as I could easily get it applied smoothly in the lower corner of my car window (
photo) and passing over the sticker while cleaning the windshield didn’t wipe white paint all over the lower reaches of the glass.
UPDATE: When I attempted to use the
Contact Us page on metroparks.com to relay this concern to park management it returned an ASP error that I believe was trying to give me an
HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error) so I tried using the listed
info@metroparks.com email address, which then bounced saying recipient not found. That’s worse quality than the passes. Time to dig up some real people’s addresses.
[ Cross-posted from
nuxx.net. Click
here for the original post. ]