Hello all. Does one have to display a tax disc on a motorbike? And if yes, what happens when it gets nicked? --Nick.
Nick emerged from their own little world to say You pay to get a replacement. Get a from from the Post Office or DVLA website. If you are worried about it happening then take a colour photocopy to put on the bike and keep the original on your person. Technically illegal but few coppers will do you for it.
Technically yes, but mine have lived in my wallet for four years now. You pay seven quid and get a duplicate, which some other **** will nick instead. Or you keep it in your wallet because some **** nicked yours 4 years ago...
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From DVLA webby..... 5. I have lost my tax disc how do I get a replacement? You should complete a V20 form and take/send it with your Registration document to your nearest DVLA Local Office and enclose the appropriate fee, currently £7. If you have also lost your Registration Document (V5), you will need to complete a V62 or from any Post Office. The police should be notified if the tax disc has been stolen.
Are they often stolen? Do you often get a "ticket" for not displaying one? I'm concerned as my local plod appear to like dragging cars without a tax disc displayed to be crunched up. --Nick.
I've never had mine stolen. You can get tax disc holders that offer more security than the standard rubber ring over a piece of perspex. Oxford do some that require an allen key to undo them. But it's only a deterrent and not totally secure obviously.
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There is a big difference between not displaying a tax disc and not being taxed. Plod will tow away untaxed vehicles because they can check with DVLA whether the vehicle is actually taxed. Avon & Somerset have been experimenting with ordinary camera mobile phones linked back to HQ so that they can send a photo of a numberplate and get back an SMS saying nick him. They make a point of targetting untaxed vehicles because untaxed generally means uninsured, no MOT and a tendency towards being a *criminal/pikey/chav (*delete as appropriate) It is a successful strategy (I am told) in reducing crime on the roads. If you have a tax disc but don't display it you won't get towed away (your mileage may vary, objects in the rear view mirror may be closer than they appear). I keep mine in my wallet and didn't have a problem in 2 years of parking in central Bristol. Actually I tell a lie. I did have a tax disc nicked when I first started parking in Bristol and a nice Avon & Somerset policeman told me (off the record) to keep the replacement it in my wallet. Mikey
document to your nearest DVLA Local Office and enclose the Document (V5), you will need to complete a V62 or from any stolen. What they don't tell you is the 'Local' office is no longer local, and when you do finally track the place down, you'll find it's an old decrepit building with yellowing walls, dirty windows, and a queue of folks stretching four times around the room and halfway down the stairs. More like a Dole office from the late 1970s than a DVLA Local Office. To put it bluntly - there was no way I was going to spend three or four hours in such a depressing place, then, just to add insult to injury, have to pay £ 7 for the privilege of a duplicate tax disc. All this because some thieving little bastard decides it's far easier to take my tax disc. Me, bitter ? Of course not.
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Nick was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever: I've had a couple stolen - one from a bike, and for the other one some arsehole decided to break into my ShiteOldRover, so I needed a complete new window frame as well as twerp had damaged the frame when levering out the quarterlight. And the inconsiderate blind **** didn't even notice that it said 'Historic' in rather big letters on the bloody thing.
^..^ Lone Wolf was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever: Same here. Which is why I simply wandered down to the local PO when the Rover's disk had been stolen. Bloke scratched his head saying "But it's still got 11 months' tax". Check the taxation class, says I. Took a couple of seconds before the penny dropped...
Just the once in my case... Never have yet. Those will be cars that are not, in fact, taxed at all. Whilst the offence is technically, "Failure to *display* a valid tax disc", the first thing a copper will do is check with the DVLA to see if it is taxed. If it is it would take a monumentally petty copper to do you if it was taxed and merely not displayed. If you were done for it, it would take a magistrate of fucking *astounding* cuntishness to actually bother doing anything about it.
