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1. The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>; Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:00:47 +0100; Dear All, I don't know whether to feel angry or smug. My tax disc was stolen again last night (angry), but I had left the top down and only had the tonneau cover on the car, so I don't need to replac; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00354.html (8,021 bytes)
2. RE: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:42:55 +0100; Carly really seems to attract attention from the wrong sort of people, doesn't she?? May I suggest a magnetic tax disc holder? These have a magnetised ring that sticks to the windscreen, and a thin; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00360.html (9,071 bytes)
3. RE: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: "Catchpole, Pat" <Pat.Catchpole@ntc-europe.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:10:22 +0100; Sorry to hear about this Mike. Unfortunately it is an offence 'not to display' a tax disk. So even if you have one and the DVLA computer agrees then any passing copper or traffic warden can report yo; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00361.html (10,468 bytes)
4. RE: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:28:09 +0100; ...Unfortunately it is an offence 'not to display' a tax disk... Oops, yes, true enough, I forgot Mike parks his car on a public street. As long as your wheels are off Her Majesties highway you'd be; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00363.html (9,096 bytes)
5. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:13:33 +0100; Yes. :-( Yes, but also illegal (a tax disc must be displayed at all times when the vehicle is on a public road). I'll see if I can find one in Halfords today. If I get nicked, I can always try to arg; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00364.html (9,991 bytes)
6. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: "Kristi Richardson" <lytabyron@hotmail.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:36:23 -0700; To you UKers, I take it that a tax disc is something like a registration in the US? Since this is Tax day here, at first I thought it had something to do with your income taxes. What is the value of; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00371.html (8,518 bytes)
7. RE: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:18:25 +0100; Car tax, or "Road Fund Licence" as the Govt. likes to call it, is an annual tax we have to buy to use our cars on the road (#105/yr for cars like a Spit, under 1500cc). To prove that we have paid it; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00373.html (11,362 bytes)
8. RE: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: "Catchpole, Pat" <Pat.Catchpole@ntc-europe.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:29:38 +0100; By law every car driven on the road in the UK must display a tax disc in the lower left hand corner of the wind screen. These are renewed annually at the cost of #155 (I think this year) - although i; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00374.html (12,335 bytes)
9. RE: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Richard Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:46:34 +0100; ...Many people (including myself) think the disc should be made obsolete... The government argues there would be no easy way to ensure a vehicle had valid insurance / roadworthiness... This is the mo; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00376.html (9,626 bytes)
10. RE: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Terry Thompson <firespiter@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:58:20 -0700 (PDT); I think I'd either have to: A) Glue to a metal disc and either bolt it in to the dashboard or even better, adhere some copper backed adhesive paper and run a wire feed to the postive battery terminal; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00377.html (9,951 bytes)
11. RE: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <doug@dougbraun.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:28:22 -0400; You would think that after reaming you on petrol taxes, they could give you a break on the "road tax". In some states like California, they manage to charge a pretty steep sum for registering newer c; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00380.html (9,601 bytes)
12. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:39:27 +0100; I've done some investigation myself, and have just purchased a bolt-together cast aluminium tax-disc holder, sold for use on motorbikes. This cost me GBP9.99. The only way the disc can be removed is; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00382.html (10,446 bytes)
13. RE: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Marc Anger <marcanger@mac.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:41:47 +0100; Just my 2p. When I was in France we used to have the "vignette". It was set up in 1958, initially to help finance retirement pensions. it was cheap for small, low powered cars (hence the Renault 4CV,; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00383.html (9,337 bytes)
14. RE: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: John Hobson <goalie_john@yahoo.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:43:59 -0700 (PDT); On teletext news tonight there's a story about a man who got charged #375 for not displaying a tax disc when he put his metro on the road outside his house without a tax disc for 10 minutes while he; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00385.html (9,534 bytes)
15. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:50:12 +0100; <snip> ROFL! ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea" http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html /// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing lis; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00388.html (8,468 bytes)
16. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:52:35 +0100; Funnily enough, I was thinking of writing to my MP, and asking (a) that charges for stolen tax discs should be waived (on quoting the relevant crime number), and (b) that the tax discs for convertibl; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00389.html (9,040 bytes)
17. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: PorscheRcr@aol.com; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:23:11 EDT; << n some states like California, they manage to charge a pretty steep sum for registering newer cars (technically property tax) without forcing you to stick more junk in your windshield or creating; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00443.html (8,007 bytes)
18. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: PorscheRcr@aol.com; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:18:04 EDT; << he tax disc was introduced many many years ago so that car users contributed to the cost of the roads they were using. Fair enough. Then the use was subtly changed to 'investment in transport', wh; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00446.html (8,468 bytes)
19. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1): Author: "Scott A. Roberts" <herald1200@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:31:51 -0400; In the US, the system varies state to state... However, in many states, an annual sticker is issued, which applies directly to your license plate. However, in Pennsylvania, thieves have come up with; /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00449.html (8,972 bytes)

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