OT - tax disc holder

The Medway Handyman wrote

More than the police can handle. The DVLA, police, customs, dole, etc run the occasional morning or all day road blocks here where the bad boys get a right going over.

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Jabba
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well the marketing opportunity is there to put something much more exciting inside them than tax discs

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Indeed. simply find a car that looks like yours and steal or duplicate the plates

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Because, obviously, a small round piece of paper is all that's been stopping people from doing that for years.

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Adrian

news wrote

Askmid.com can be used to check insurance.

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Jabba

Adrian wrote

Hundreds have been nicked for not showing it, when they have been taxed. Some for sticking it on the wrong side of the windscreen.

Beer bottle labels used to be a good replacement if you lost one.

Reply to
Jabba

No, they haven't.

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Adrian

Well the DVLA computer knows whether you have tax, insurance, an MOT and whether any of that's needed because you haven't done a SORN.

So it should be a matter of automatically issuing a fine and telling the ANPR cameras to bust you in addition for driving without insurance.

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Tim Watts

Brilliant - you just gave me an idea for my "fake" disc...

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Tim Watts

Yes, but none of this is the extra step required to work out if the plate is appearing at places/times which would be impossible with only one of them.

Reply to
Clive George

And, if it does, which one's the naughty one? Or are BOTH clones?

Reply to
Adrian

You issue a new number to the registered keeper and then find the other one and have it crushed.

Reply to
dennis

There used to be a requirement to display it on the nearside of the windscreen within eight inches, I think, of the bottom corner. I got told to move mine from the middle behind the mirror (I thought it was safer out of my sight-line) by a copper in Manchester once, and actually got a ticket issued by a Yellow Banded Vulture (now Blue banded) in Malmesbury because mine had fallen off the windscreen. The car was brand new, hence had to be taxed, and it was visible on the floor of the car whence it had fallen, but I got done because it was not correctly displayed. I sent the bill to the garage whose crap disc-holder had fallen off the screen, and they refunded the fine. They were both a long time ago, but I haven't heard that the law has changed.

Thinking back again, I was negotiating a five minute parking truce with a Yellow Banded Vulture in Nottingham whilst I picked up a new, heavy HiFi from a shop when he suddenly whipped out his pad and started writing a ticket. I thought he had decided to book me, but he had spotted a car driving past with no disc in the windscreen, noted the number. and started issuing a ticket all in one movement. You have to admire talent - even with a YBV.

Reply to
Bob Henson

And if the RK doesn't want a new number? What if it's an expensive private plate?

Reply to
Adrian

He can have it back latter. PS he doesn't own the number, it can be taken back.

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dennis

Tim Watts wrote

The DVLA doesn't know if a car is insured or not. They are only concerned with tax, MOT, SORN and registered keeper.

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Jabba

Bob Henson wrote

Traffic wardens reckoned that a disc on the drivers side meant they had to walk into the traffic to look at it. Right load of bollocks, as many cars are parked with driver side closest to pavement. As for coppers...

Reply to
Jabba

They do know it was insured at the time the tax [disc] was paid for.

Reply to
Andy Burns

Umm, yes, they do - via MID. And they constantly query it against the list of taxed/SORNed vehicles, to check for breaches of the continuous insurance regs.

If you meant that they don't know whether that particular driver is insured to drive the vehicle, then - true - they don't. There's no possible way of knowing, short of stopping the vehicle and asking for paperwork.

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Adrian

No more or less than at any other time. Taxing hasn't required proof of insurance since last year.

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Adrian

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