If the pass is a box, then it is a transponder than needs to be mounted on the dotted area as Ford describes. If it is an optical sticker, you need to place it outside the dots. Try following the Ford instructions and see if it works.Unfortunately it's more confusing than that in Washington. There's good posts here on the forum about installing toll & parking passes in that location that's designed for it. All the ones I've seen though are cute little stickers; the Washington Good To Go flex pass is a big ugly box that seems to be designed to thwart the MME.
The picture above is also in the MME manual, showing where to locate:
And then the Washington instructions seem to be a perfect complement (in a bad way):
In the text it doesn't say it has to be below/behind the mirror, but it does say it has to be 2 inches below the top of the windshield. By the time you put it there, the 1.5 inch toll box is only partially in the shaded area designed by Ford.
And in any case, the instructions also say to not put it in any tinted area, presumably such as the shaded area designed by Ford. (The pass has a typical transponder, it also has a red box you can open/close that the toll system has to visually see, indicating if your car is HOV and doesn't have to pay the toll.)
So I'm hoping there's some WA MME-ers here that have figured this out. The only way I know of to test it is to install it somewhere, drive it on the two different kinds of toll roads here, and then check my bill. (If the toll system doesn't see the transponder it reads your license plate and tacks on a surcharge.)
coincidentally but unrelated, I’m hanging out right now with a NOAA scientist you know talking about coral.
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