Do you keep old tax discs?
Do you keep old tax discs?
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chuno

Original Poster:

1,183 posts

265 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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While browsing the classifieds, it strikes me how many people keep all old tax discs for their car. I've never bothered. Although i'm starting to think i should have and should now start keeping them.

I've kept every MOT. Do people think it's woth keeping tax discs too????

steveo3002

11,214 posts

204 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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never kept mine , cant see how it matters to the next owner

Hudson

1,857 posts

217 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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due to utter laziness, quite a few previous ones are still in the holder, underneath the current one :P

kambites

71,556 posts

251 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Only accidentally, since I never bother to take them out of the holder; I just shove the new one in front of the last one.

lowdrag

13,187 posts

243 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Which reminds me. I still have the 1961 tax disc on the car with the current one behind. A traffic warden with no sense of humour tried to say that I had a hell of a lot of back tax to pay. Oh and yes, I keep every MOT and tax disc, in fact changed it yesterday.

alcovrugbyfan

351 posts

189 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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We have all of the old tax disks from when the car was new in the wifes car. Don't know why really, the last owner kept them all from new and we just carried it on.

ludicrous speed

959 posts

224 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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I burn them as a symbol of what i've actually just done with real money.

Glassman

25,025 posts

245 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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It's surprising how many drivers/owners keep the expired RFLs. When replacing a windscreen I go to take the tax disc holder off the cracked glass but sometimes end up with a full deck of discs - two a year - from the previous decade (and most of the time they insist they're put back in the holder!).

Bungleaio

6,587 posts

232 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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I keep mine too but I only put the new one infront of the old.

No idea why I keep them though I never look at them.

DannyVTS

7,543 posts

198 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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I keep mine, and when buying one of my old cars getting every old tax disc was nice to see.

Dr Doofenshmirtz

16,952 posts

230 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Yep - I keep all mine in a file.
Not entirely sure why - but it looks nice when you produce a fully documented folder containing everything about the car to a potential new owner I guess.

Faust66

2,417 posts

195 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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I always keep mine... the damn things cost so much I want to extract maximum value from 'em!

Saying that though; got to tax my Volvo Amazon next month... as it's free I'll have a huge grin on my face!

I also think they're a nice thing to see with the service history of a car.


LukeBird

17,170 posts

239 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Nope, don't keep mine.
I keep a decent history of docs/receipts for my car, but can't say I think it would add anything to the history file for my car.

Graebob

2,172 posts

237 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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What would showing a big pile of old tax discs prove?

RemainAllHoof

80,099 posts

312 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Hudson said:
due to utter laziness, quite a few previous ones are still in the holder, underneath the current one :P
yes

Morningside

24,147 posts

259 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Handy way to see how we have been ripped off over the years.

RemainAllHoof

80,099 posts

312 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Graebob said:
What would showing a big pile of old tax discs prove?
I guess it's part of demonstrating how well you look after your car. Like when an owner have a complete service history with every invoice not just a book of dealer stamps (which people often call full service history).

marky911

4,434 posts

249 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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I keep all mine. Its a bit of paper relevant to the car so it can't hurt.

marky911

4,434 posts

249 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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double post.

steveo3002

11,214 posts

204 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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RemainAllHoof said:
I guess it's part of demonstrating how well you look after your car. Like when an owner have a complete service history with every invoice not just a book of dealer stamps (which people often call full service history).
doesnt show how well you looked after the car at all , would keeping every pay n display ticket and fuel reciept make it a better car ?