Last day of the tax disc - post a pic

[Silverbullet767]

jmorgan said:

Why are people focusing on "looks better"? Is it some excuse to say I told you so? Do they not realise that the driver behind the wheel with a visage like a robbers horse is not doing the "looks" department any favours despite the belief of the driver that they are gods gift?

¿Que?

[samvia]

confused_buyer said:

samvia said:

the chocolate Digestive upgrade instead this morning.

Might not work quite so well if the sun comes out.

Ah see I'm one step ahead there - the chocolate side is face down, and will be kept cool by the windscreen blowers.

Obviously I won't leave it in there while the vehicle is unattended, as well as being at risk of melting it's also just an invitation for a hungry theif to break in.

[davamer23]

I went the Only Fools and Horses route, just waiting on a local busy body who has no clue on the new rules to "shop" me.

[NCE 61]

[jmorgan]

Silverbullet767 said:

¿Que?

Some people have been proclaiming the looks of the automobile they own are somewhat enhanced by the lack of a revenue ticket in the windscreen. At least the way I am reading some posts.

[Silverbullet767]

It does. To me at least.

[graham22]

MarkRSi said:

Going to work today and didn't notice a single car/truck (out of 100-odd) which had removed the tax disc.

(yeah I know I should be focusing on the road/they might not had time/bothered to remove it etc. etc.)

I did the same, only saw one car without a tax disc - a Ford Galaxy but they still had the empty holder on the screen.

Presume with the odds of 1 in 12 expiring yesterday, people have just left their 09/14 discs on the screen.

[Morningside]

Shame they are gone. Its a quick glance from the public to see an abandoned car. It was also nice to see where cars had roughly come from.


Maybe someone should start a photoshop company that creates a tax disc for any specific month/year so we can carry on the tradition.

[Tunku]

Mine arrived today

[Morningside]

Hmmm. Maybe I could go futurist and have QR Code linking to something.

[Zod]

I saw only one other car on my commute without a tax disc.

[The Moose]

Zod said:

I saw only one other car on my commute without a tax disc.

You looked at all of them?!

[Fat Albert]

Mine appears to have expired!


The previous ownwer had the car for three years and just put a new tax disc in front of the existing one every 6 months....

[Zod]

The Moose said:

Zod said:

I saw only one other car on my commute without a tax disc.

You looked at all of them?!

Of course. OK. I noticed. Happy?

[Vipers]

NCE 61 said:

Very nice but possible MOT failure, they failed mine on my National Trust sticker above the tax disc.

[Vipers]

graham22 said:

I did the same, only saw one car without a tax disc - a Ford Galaxy but they still had the empty holder on the screen.

Presume with the odds of 1 in 12 expiring yesterday, people have just left their 09/14 discs on the screen.

Matters not when it expores, you can still take it off. Or did I misread your comment?

[garycat]

I don't remember being consulted on this

How do I inform peasants that I pay £485 a year to use the road and therefore have more right to it than they do?

[clonmult]

Vipers said:

NCE 61 said:

Very nice but possible MOT failure, they failed mine on my National Trust sticker above the tax disc.

I remember once putting my tax disc on the drivers side. Moved it back when a very friendly guard at work informed me that it would be an MOT failure. I also happened to be working at a fairly secure military establishment and the guard in question happened to be armed with live ammunition at the time.

Man with a gun suggests you move your tax disc, you don't argue.

I'll take mine off when I collect the car from the garage later ....

[scubadude]

On the radio news they said that today "there has been unprecedented demand on the DVLA servers to renew tax and they are having trouble"

Why? I can't understand why anymore people would need tax today as compared to another day/month... or are there a large number of deeply stupid people trying to get tax because they think the remaining tax on their disc is no longer valid? :-)

I have yet to remove my discs, I am slightly concerned the local Police here and ANPR operators are sufficiently stupid to not know about the changes either... Getting a wrongly issued fine removed is probably a massive hassle.

[beko1987]

I've gone for the retro look now it's legal to display it! Sadly not the original one, the paperworks not that complete.