Who's gone to the trouble of removing their tax discs?

Who's gone to the trouble of removing their tax discs?

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robinessex

11,059 posts

181 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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I bet a good % of the public don't know/realise that the tax disc is dead, and when they re-new, will run around like a headless chicken because that haven't got one.

Daston

6,075 posts

203 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Took the Mazda's off the other weekend. Was afraid that the 12 years of glue would leave a horrid mess but came off really easily. The MG on the other hand is a different matter! Going to have to use some nail polish remover and a credit card me thinks.

SV8Predator

2,102 posts

165 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Cliftonite said:
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99% failure rate! Why? Is it that folk do not know or do not care?
Failure of what? You're not required to display it any more does not equate to you must instantly remove the VED disc on October 1st? So 0% failure rate.

I've put a Guinness label in one car and the other still has its (valid) tax disc.

tjk123

562 posts

230 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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The DVLA has told me to leave my tax disc, acquired in late September, on my windscreen. The reason being their records show the vehicle is untaxed, due to muppet in the post office failing to update the system.

Cliftonite

8,408 posts

138 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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SV8Predator said:
Cliftonite said:
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99% failure rate! Why? Is it that folk do not know or do not care?
Failure of what? You're not required to display it any more does not equate to you must instantly remove the VED disc on October 1st? So 0% failure rate.

I've put a Guinness label in one car and the other still has its (valid) tax disc.
Err . . they have failed to remove the VED disc. As in not having done it. 99% have failed to do so.

That's what I said.




SV8Predator

2,102 posts

165 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Cliftonite said:
Err . . they have failed to remove the VED disc. As in not having done it. 99% have failed to do so.

That's what I said.
Who says that you have to remove the VED disc?


Cliftonite

8,408 posts

138 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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SV8Predator said:
Cliftonite said:
Err . . they have failed to remove the VED disc. As in not having done it. 99% have failed to do so.

That's what I said.
Who says that you have to remove the VED disc?
Nobody. Especially me. But why have unnecessary junk stuck to the windscreen?

I am genuinely surprised how few people have removed the discs and am wondering why this is so.

sTroll on . . .


Lowtimer

4,286 posts

168 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Probably because they have more important things in their lives to get on with. To most people a car is just a piece of household equipment like a dishwasher or a fridge.

anonymous-user

54 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Lowtimer, I have been emailing you and texting you for over a month. Have I pissed you off?

snoopy25

1,865 posts

120 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Havent removed mine yet but probably will do when it runs out smile

longshot

3,286 posts

198 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Cliftonite said:
Nobody. Especially me. But why have unnecessary junk stuck to the windscreen?

I am genuinely surprised how few people have removed the discs and am wondering why this is so.

sTroll on . . .
It's a piece of the windscreen I have managed to live without for 30 years so I have no desperate urge to liberate it.

Badgerboy

1,783 posts

192 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Had a new windscreen fitted in June, so haven't have not bothered with one since then.

I don't think I have had one on my bike since I bought it! Kept going missing.

eskidavies

5,371 posts

159 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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There's a stack in the van behind the phone antenae,they can stay there till next year till it runs out,I will remove the golf one which runs out end of month ,don't need reminding of the cost,which reminds me me I ain't had a reminder yet.the mg is still in the window out of date that's in the garage on sorn anyway,

Edited by eskidavies on Sunday 19th October 18:04

Ray Luxury-Yacht

Original Poster:

8,910 posts

216 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Okais, to update my thread - not a particularly scientific test I grant you, but I have been tax-disc free for two weeks now.

Plus, as another interesting 'sub experiment' - I have also been displaying a pair of brand-new numberplates. Nothing unusual about that maybe - apart from the fact that I have been a totally death-defying maverick, and gone for a pair of pressed-aluminium plates yikesbiggrin

My last set of acrylics were only 2 years old, but had started to de-laminate, which looked horrendous - plus the rear plate had started to get that 'cloudy, sun-bleached look' too.

I did a lot of internetz research on metal plates first - and I chose a company who is 'DVLA registered' as an 'approved supplier', who makes only fully legal plates. The plates have the maker's name and postcode on them, plus the BSAU145d stamp. They conform to the DVLA regulations of being made from a retroreflective material, and all that jazz. There are a lot of scare stories on the net about run-ins with the BiB about these plates, but I have decided that, on balance, I'll probably be ok biggrin

Anyway, in the last 2 weeks, I have driven past numerous ANPR equipped Police Cars, and past traffic lights / bridges etc. also fitted with ANPR cameras. And I even got a parking ticket last week, which although annoying, did not mention or discuss the lack of a tax disc, or non-conforming plates. And I do know from experience that most traffic wardens are pretty on the ball on that score.

Hmmm, I think I might start a separate thread about metal number plates now! biggrin


dtmpower

3,972 posts

245 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
Okais, to update my thread - not a particularly scientific test I grant you, but I have been tax-disc free for two weeks now.

Plus, as another interesting 'sub experiment' - I have also been displaying a pair of brand-new numberplates. Nothing unusual about that maybe - apart from the fact that I have been a totally death-defying maverick, and gone for a pair of pressed-aluminium plates yikesbiggrin

My last set of acrylics were only 2 years old, but had started to de-laminate, which looked horrendous - plus the rear plate had started to get that 'cloudy, sun-bleached look' too.

I did a lot of internetz research on metal plates first - and I chose a company who is 'DVLA registered' as an 'approved supplier', who makes only fully legal plates. The plates have the maker's name and postcode on them, plus the BSAU145d stamp. They conform to the DVLA regulations of being made from a retroreflective material, and all that jazz. There are a lot of scare stories on the net about run-ins with the BiB about these plates, but I have decided that, on balance, I'll probably be ok biggrin

Anyway, in the last 2 weeks, I have driven past numerous ANPR equipped Police Cars, and past traffic lights / bridges etc. also fitted with ANPR cameras. And I even got a parking ticket last week, which although annoying, did not mention or discuss the lack of a tax disc, or non-conforming plates. And I do know from experience that most traffic wardens are pretty on the ball on that score.

Hmmm, I think I might start a separate thread about metal number plates now! biggrin
Which website for the pressed plates ?

Ray Luxury-Yacht

Original Poster:

8,910 posts

216 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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dtmpower said:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
Okais, to update my thread - not a particularly scientific test I grant you, but I have been tax-disc free for two weeks now.

Plus, as another interesting 'sub experiment' - I have also been displaying a pair of brand-new numberplates. Nothing unusual about that maybe - apart from the fact that I have been a totally death-defying maverick, and gone for a pair of pressed-aluminium plates yikesbiggrin

My last set of acrylics were only 2 years old, but had started to de-laminate, which looked horrendous - plus the rear plate had started to get that 'cloudy, sun-bleached look' too.

I did a lot of internetz research on metal plates first - and I chose a company who is 'DVLA registered' as an 'approved supplier', who makes only fully legal plates. The plates have the maker's name and postcode on them, plus the BSAU145d stamp. They conform to the DVLA regulations of being made from a retroreflective material, and all that jazz. There are a lot of scare stories on the net about run-ins with the BiB about these plates, but I have decided that, on balance, I'll probably be ok biggrin

Anyway, in the last 2 weeks, I have driven past numerous ANPR equipped Police Cars, and past traffic lights / bridges etc. also fitted with ANPR cameras. And I even got a parking ticket last week, which although annoying, did not mention or discuss the lack of a tax disc, or non-conforming plates. And I do know from experience that most traffic wardens are pretty on the ball on that score.

Hmmm, I think I might start a separate thread about metal number plates now! biggrin
Which website for the pressed plates ?
Autostyle, they sell on Ebay, £20 a set



Lowtimer

4,286 posts

168 months

Sunday 19th October 2014
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Right, I'm having a couple of sets of those.

Ray Luxury-Yacht

Original Poster:

8,910 posts

216 months

Thursday 23rd October 2014
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Lowtimer said:
Right, I'm having a couple of sets of those.
Did you get some?


matty6660

65 posts

127 months

Thursday 23rd October 2014
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I've taken all my tax discs out ready to sell lol

DUMBO100

1,878 posts

184 months

Thursday 23rd October 2014
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My tax disc was removed by a car valeter and put in the glovebox. It's taken me 3 weeks to even notice