Last day of the tax disc - post a pic

Last day of the tax disc - post a pic

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Slidingpillar

761 posts

136 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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ChemicalChaos said:
Is anyone else going leave the holder, and buy an age-appropriate replica disc?
I am, but to mount my holder, I had to drill holes in the replacement skirt panel. Also, I think a 1930 disc is cool.



Edited by Slidingpillar on Tuesday 30th September 16:01

ManiacGT

537 posts

175 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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One for detailing world really but I'll be happy I can clean the entire windscreen now rather than trying to clean around the awkward metal disc holder in the corner!

Birdster

2,529 posts

143 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Just a thought. New lease car turns up this week. What's the best way to check that the car is taxed?

Swanny87

1,265 posts

119 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Birdster said:
Just a thought. New lease car turns up this week. What's the best way to check that the car is taxed?
Link

zed4

7,248 posts

222 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Welshbeef said:
ghibbett said:
Did mine last night. Looks much cleaner smile

Lol you do realise its from the 1/10 not 30/9 so if you don't put it back and get caught today points and fine coming to you...
Lol, I doubt it! I know someone who hasn't been displaying one for nearly a year as it slid under the seat in their VX220 which is a right pain to take out!! Never had a problem.

E65Ross

35,071 posts

212 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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mgtony said:
Baryonyx said:
mgtony said:
ANPR isn't going to be much use if someone has put on a set of number plates from an identical car.
True, but what is the relevance of this statement?
In reference to keeping the disc, it was harder to run cloned plates. Now just shove on some from an identical car you've seen about and there's minimal risk of any attention being drawn to it. Parking tickets wont have the disc details so harder to disprove it wasn't your car.
Not sure I agree about the cloning thing to be honest. If a car was displaying a tax disc but had another plate on it, I highly doubt anyone read the number plate of said cars tax disc.

Sod all of those who didn't pay a tax disc get caught by a copy on the beat, it's all by anpr cameras or police cars.

gubbabump

1,209 posts

139 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Just removed mine from the windscreen, looks lovely and clean, was also a perfect time to remove the sticky residue left from a parking permit holder..

Birdster

2,529 posts

143 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Swanny87 said:
Birdster said:
Just a thought. New lease car turns up this week. What's the best way to check that the car is taxed?
Link
Thanks, I should have googled it myself. I just didn't suspect it would be that simple.

iplod999

368 posts

144 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Swapped for a replica 1992 issued disc.


blank

3,456 posts

188 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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I removed mine when I cleaned the car on Sunday. I'm just so bad ass.

Gonewest

138 posts

190 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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ging84 said:
marked1 said:
I applied for a tax disc 2 weeks ago online and it came on normal A4 paper. I thought it was a fake at first as you actually had to cut around the disc as apposed to tearing it off but the letter goes on to say "that DVLA has run down its pre existing stocks to ensure that there was no wastage. To give value for money to the tax payer we have not replenished our stocks for this short period but decided to print these in house".
Probably actually worth holding on to if you didn't cut them out, you know what collectors are like with st that is rare nostalgic and unusual
“Velologists” – that’s tax disc collectors – are on the lookout for pristine examples of the last ever discs. In particular, a run of very recent emergency-issue, non-perforated discs – produced in the last month or two when supplies of special perforated paper ran low – could appreciate significantly in value.

lowdrag

12,889 posts

213 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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I shall actually miss them. When you've had a car over 30 years, when you have collected and filed every tax disc, it is a tad sad really. From here on I shall also keep every insurance renewal and certificate, print off every "nil payment" renewal from the internet, but somehow it won't be the same. Amen.

alangtt

278 posts

162 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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iplod999 said:
Swapped for a replica 1992 issued disc.

Is there a company who made that for you, I'm thinking it's cool to display one from about 1985
Or should my post be move to the mods the annoy you bit?

I think it's pretty cool, que next year all the retro cars with there old discs

MitchT

15,865 posts

209 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Bought my car new in 1999. Still have all the tax discs. Tempted to put the first one it had back in!

iplod999

368 posts

144 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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alangtt said:
Is there a company who made that for you, I'm thinking it's cool to display one from about 1985
Or should my post be move to the mods the annoy you bit?

I think it's pretty cool, que next year all the retro cars with there old discs
Got mine from here.


http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/301334491200?nav=SEARCH

0llie

3,007 posts

196 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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iplod999 said:
Swapped for a replica 1992 issued disc.

I like that smile

br d

8,400 posts

226 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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I bought a new van 3 months ago, the tax disc was supposed to arrive "In a couple of days", it didn't.
Chased it after a few weeks but Peugeot had made a pigs ear of the paperwork and it eventually arrived a couple of days ago, I didn't bother putting it on.
I drive around in London all day under the watchful eye of a zillion cameras and haven't had the slightest interest fom the police for not displaying it during all that time.

Rawwr

22,722 posts

234 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Amazing. The tax disc holder on my Fireblade disassembled itself whilst I was riding home from work. No idea where it ended up.

TIMING, HUH?

marked1

271 posts

137 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Gonewest said:
ging84 said:
marked1 said:
I applied for a tax disc 2 weeks ago online and it came on normal A4 paper. I thought it was a fake at first as you actually had to cut around the disc as apposed to tearing it off but the letter goes on to say "that DVLA has run down its pre existing stocks to ensure that there was no wastage. To give value for money to the tax payer we have not replenished our stocks for this short period but decided to print these in house".
Probably actually worth holding on to if you didn't cut them out, you know what collectors are like with st that is rare nostalgic and unusual
“Velologists” – that’s tax disc collectors – are on the lookout for pristine examples of the last ever discs. In particular, a run of very recent emergency-issue, non-perforated discs – produced in the last month or two when supplies of special perforated paper ran low – could appreciate significantly in value.


Here's mine. Shame i never got the 12 months as that would be one of the last ones on paper.

Baryonyx

17,996 posts

159 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Rawwr said:
Amazing. The tax disc holder on my Fireblade disassembled itself whilst I was riding home from work. No idea where it ended up.

TIMING, HUH?
Indeed, the tax disc blew away on my motorbike recently. Oh well.