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

[OldBuoy]

J4CKO said:

Now they are defunct, copying one will not be an offence, I have removed mine, but in 12 months time I am going to photoshop a perfect 2016 disk and display it in my car

What a good but useless idea. That sound's like a business plan to me.

[g7jhp]

J4CKO said:

Now they are defunct, copying one will not be an offence, I have removed mine, but in 12 months time I am going to photoshop a perfect 2016 disk and display it in my car

I was thinking the same think. Cool to have a retro tax disk for your classic car.

What colour do you do it in 2016?

[Torquey]

I'm tempted to leave it on forever more.

Interesting to see 35000+ tax disk holders still for sale on ebay!

[Toaster Pilot]

I can't believe people are paying so much for them on eBay - wtf?!

[anonymous-user]

Someone has asked £2000 for one, but no takers so far. The highest auction bid that I have seen is about £105.

[Sleepers]

I've removed mine

The wife wants hers to stay put

[Toaster Pilot]

Breadvan72 said:

Someone has asked £2000 for one, but no takers so far. The highest auction bid that I have seen is about £105.

Even seeing ones that have been cut out from the letter going for about £10 - I have one in a car I bought the other day so that'll be going on there!

[ManOpener]

I've been toying with removing mine but as my PistonHeads sticker is above it, I need to find something else to put where it currently resides otherwise it will just look silly.

[beko1987]

I removed my current one and found one from 1994 with the expiry date in line with when the first 6 months tax would have been up.

So I am still displaying one, and have had zero comments about the fact it's 20 years old!

[R6VED]

I removed the one in my 1981 SEL 500 as the stickiness had failed and it kept falling onto the dash, I just left it there until Oct 1st ish. I still have it on my CLS 500 as it is one of the round metal ones and I just haven't got around to it. I know I will have a job to scrape off all the sticky residue and simply can't be arsed :-)

[J4CKO]

I have, in my downstairs loo, all the tax disks from the 1969 Capri we had in a frame, because I quite like it, I say all, its 73 to 89, can see all the different prices, and you could buy 4 months at one point.

Must be priceless

[speedking31]

A lot of people never remove the old one and just put the new one to the front of the holder. As they will never have cause to look there I expect that all those old discs will remain in situ for ever more.

[Toaster Pilot]

I don't even know where the tax disc for my current daily is - didn't display it when I bought it about 4 months ago

[Paul O]

I got one of the last disks on my daily - it wasn't perforated and just printed on a piece of paper. Thats still sliding about the dashboard, next to the out of date one in the holder

Will take it out of the weekend car I think when I next do a good clean. I've got one of those fancy silver disk holders in the drawer that I never got round to fitting. Might put that in instead with the National Trust parking permit inside rather than tax discs.

[8potdave]

Went round Cornwall last week with the family so my car was nicely stted up when I got back. Took it out as part of the cleaning process. Quite happy to see it go as the dealer had about 8 pints before he fitted the tax disc holder I think!

[AlexHat]

I've not taken my expired disc out yet, just waiting to see if anyone puts something underneath my wipers informing me that 'your tax has expired and I've reported you'.

It will come off eventually.

[E36GUY]

BFG TERRANO said:

Company car yes, my own no chance! Just paid £285 for it so it can stay till its out of date!

This. I lament this new removal of disks. As much as we all hate paying road tax at least you got a little coloured disk in return!

[rustyabarth]

Ive still got the original disc holder that matches the numberplate's from the dealers in my Golf. Unsure if im going to take it out, feels like part of the cars 20 year old history is disappearing along with the 20 years worth of discs stored in it.

[Al U]

I've got one of those clear film tax disc holders and I noticed it had fallen off the screen when I got in the car yesterday, maybe it's fate!

[Dalto123]

Took mine out on the 1st. I haven't destroyed them, just popped them in my car service/history folder.

I prefer the look as it's a bit cleaner and I wouldn't want an expired disk on display when it runs out (although that's not going to happen until July/August next year).