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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 14:22:25 GMT
Hi UK guys---------- just a reminder that the new laws regarding displaying Tax Discs came into force this morning............this might help you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> www.gov.uk/government/news/vehicle-tax-changes -------------- Watch-out for the "Buying or selling" clauses.......YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !! |
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shooter
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If it 'aint broke....don't fix it!
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Post by shooter on Oct 1, 2014 18:02:37 GMT
Now, if only they could do away with pot holes as quickly that would be something!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 21:16:09 GMT
And on my motorbikes--it's amen to that !!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 21:24:59 GMT
well the council have just resurfaced my road and a number of others nearby too....all potholes gone....better still the speed ramps are more or less useless due to the new covering and they aren't going to raise them.....perfect for when my very low car is back on the road....  Pete |
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Post by Jim on Oct 1, 2014 21:35:27 GMT
The experience here of not issuing 'rego' labels has been a sharp rise in folk driving unregistered vehicles due to them forgetting their registration was due and having no visual check on their car. In one case a woman was booked for driving car that was unregistered, the fact that it was a rental car didn't cut any ice with the wallopers.
All this to save a few cents printing a label!
Jim
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 21:38:30 GMT
Apologies if I appear to be labouring a point but please do have a look at the new rules regarding NON-TRANSFER of outstanding vehicle tax..........It's going to cause some problems, that's for sure-------------------------Also, if your No. plate is held on by those plastic screws I suggest you change to steel ones as I can see the attraction now, more than ever of stealing plates ( or cloning them ).....as this is the only source from which Police can gather info on a vehicle..........
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Post by goldstar31 on Oct 1, 2014 22:10:39 GMT
I assume that the authorities will be aware that the rest of Europe- well France and Spain have been driving cars with no visible tax disks for umpteen years now. My Spanish registered Getz has a ITV sticker on the screen which shows that it is not due for another test until September 2016. The log book and insurance papers etc are in the glove box with the first aid kit and spare bulbs. The warning triangles( 2) are with the hi vis jackets in the boot. I cannot recall how the plates are secured- possibly glued.
The French- well, the 73 plated Savoie ones had the insurance details on the screen and you taxed at the local tabac( fag shop)
I have a SANEF sender on the Audi to get quickly through the Telepeages. Came from Harrogate- incidentally. I pay in the UK on direct debit!
The best was the German pee corners on the autobahns where it costs a Euro. We qualify for the disabled places and the keys are only obtainable by presenting your watch with the restaurant check out lady to put in her drawer.
Have fun
Norman
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Post by terry1956 on Oct 2, 2014 20:42:42 GMT
There is no road tax in france unless its a high emissions one and that was only from a few years back.they also have two year mot, s and none at all for motor bikes.michael
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Tony K
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Post by Tony K on Oct 4, 2014 7:41:56 GMT
I thought it was local radio where they talked about bus passes and potholes
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Post by goldstar31 on Oct 4, 2014 9:35:44 GMT
Tony,
Basically most of us live in for most of the time in the real world of pot holes and bus passes. When one faces the blunt fact of steering knocked 'off cock' from sleeping police and pot holes, it is real enough. It assumes that the arterial roads are not blocked by major road works- of course- with traffic cones where there is no road works and all that jazz.
However, there is an interesting slant to this 'possible nicking of plates'. I went out to sort of find out how some of my menagerie of cars were arranged and one car has plates glued down and not using silly little plastic efforts. The ironical thing is that the fear of this removal is a bit odd because in Spain we leave the keys and the parking ticket inside our open cars at the airport- and with a fiver( a Euro fiver) as a float.
So the car has even the log book, the insurance papers and whatever-- and NOTHING HAPPENS. My lighting spares, my air pump, my tyre gauge and my hi vis jackets are left.
Maybe some of us should move to a more honest world.
Perhaps we- sad Brits- see difficulties that are imaginery!
Regards
Norman
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Post by dscott on Oct 4, 2014 11:30:46 GMT
I managed to get out on a none RAILWAY related walk to the local shop during the week and no surprise to everyone that the computer system had crashed on the first day of operation leaving 270 000 cars without being taxed The same number got through before it did!!!!
Telling us that possibly October was just not a month to do this with an ancient system.
My last visit out (swimming this time) saw a visit to a post office hidden in Farnborough's Asda. "They are just for the nasty ***'* that go round checking private car parks, the police have a system that reads the plate and does the rest via the computer the paper does not interest them, its the mot and insurance that they go for." the counter assistant told me. My disc disappeared I think on getting a ticket in a car park!!! That's one less thing to steal on the car!!!
Although my Cornish uncle and aunt had their plates borrowed by a local gang a few weeks ago!!! That will teach them to venture over the border to Tavistock, the home of good food where the only MC Donald's to ever close was!!!
They found them in Yelverton!!!
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Post by eightpot on Oct 4, 2014 21:46:42 GMT
Hi UK guys---------- just a reminder that the new laws regarding displaying Tax Discs came into force this morning............this might help you >>>>>>>>>>>>>> www.gov.uk/government/news/vehicle-tax-changes -------------- Watch-out for the "Buying or selling" clauses.......YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !! The www.gov.uk website very interesting, but what happens if when renewal time comes around and you are not sent the V11 or V85/1 Reminder? Or does the foremost thing on your mind 24/7/365 now have to be "When does the tax run out on the car?" |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2014 21:55:30 GMT
As has always been the case }----- Its the owners responsibility to ensure the vehicle is fully road-legal.........Have you noticed that ----a) they remind you to PAY your tax---------b)they remind you to PAY your insurance but nobody reminds you of the most important one of all---ie the the MoT vehicle safety check !!
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Post by goldstar31 on Oct 5, 2014 7:42:43 GMT
But the possession of a MOT certificate is no guarantee that a vehicle is road worthy. This, I must remind you, is your constant duty.
I was musing about stealing plates and it dawned on me that two of our plates look like those from Luxembourg. Basically, they are not valuable or anything like that- but they stand out like sore thumbs to the police, the other authorities on security and the average tow rag. One is old Durham and the other old Northumberland.
More than one way to skin a cat!##Cheers
Norman
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 8:27:35 GMT
Yes, I should have written it thus}---- Its the owners responsibility to ensure the vehicle is fully road-legal at all times.....This is even more relevant now with the "Continuous Insurance" law, Non-transferable SORN and now this Non-transferable Tax as well !!
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Post by terry1956 on Oct 5, 2014 9:06:16 GMT
In French you must rivet the number plates on. when you sale a French reg car, motorbike what ever it must have 14 months of MOT remaining to be glassed as a road going car, there are know mot,s for bikes. the new owner as to get a set of new number plates and a new log book each time he buys a car. classic motorbikes can be registered on the photo only. I ran an old BSA A10 and 1970 T120 out there for a time cost next to nothing to use. michael
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