Tamper-proof Tax Disc Holder - MSE Style

Stephen_Leak

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Surely the antitheft tax disc holder is meant to destroy itself and therefore make it of no use.

The same as with Swiss Motorway Vignette.

With your cunning plan they would still be able to lift the tax disc, and place it in another car, perhaps photocopy it and doctor it, before doing so. In effect you have made it even more durable.

I have noticed the newest tax discs have bar codes on them now - just as an aside.

1. Don't call me Shirley.

2. Tax discs have the registration number and the make of the car to which it was issued, and the amount paid. My "Ford, £30" disc is going to look very suspicious on a Bugatti Veyron.

Yes, it will need to be doctored. This is what the self-adhesive clear plastic skin prevents. You can't get it off and get to the surface of the disc to erase the old details, without the surface of the disc coming away with it.

I believe that the shiny metallic strip on a tax disc is, like banknotes, to deter photocopying.

The barcode is obviously yet another layer of security.

Again, see http://www.secur-i-disc.co.uk/index.html

Kilty_2

Of course the seller of tamper proof tax disc holders will tell you theres a demand for stolen discs - probably out stealing them themselves to keep the numbers up! :rotfl:

A stolen tax disc is useless now everythings computerized

Flyboy152

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

A good point, which I omitted to mention.

Yes.

With the tamper-proof holder, you can still remove it from the windscreen and then cut out the disc with a pair of scissors.

With the re-usable holder, you just take it out.

Both can still be read through the clear plastic.

Then what is the point in the "tamper-proof" holder?

grizzly1911

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

1. Don't call me Shirley.





I believe that the shiny metallic strip on a tax disc is, like banknotes, to deter photocopying.



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Surely it would not dissimilar to the original after your layering on of sticky back plastic through a dirty windscreen.

It was always a sod to get it on first time when I followed Blue Peter.

Lum

worried_jim wrote: »

Who steals tax disks? Its like those big yellow steering wheel locks- you only ever see them on the crappiest cars that no one would ever steal anyway like a Perouda Nippa.

I don't know about that specific car, but the chances are that those crap cars are the kind you can break into really easily, for example the Vauxhall Nova which can be broken into and started using a single windscreen wiper.

The newer and more expensive cars are harder to break into so the big yellow steering lock isn't needed.

s_b

The newer and more expensive cars are harder to break into so the big yellow steering lock isn't needed.

what you mean is newer cars have immobilisers fitted but unfortunately you still get kids who cant read or write that think you can still nick modern cars and can do an awful lot of damage to door and steering before they find out it wont start
and even try bumping them down the road into a very inconvenient lamp post as you sit in your front room in your undies watching emmerdale:)

grizzly1911

s_b wrote: »

even try bumping them down the road into a very inconvenient lamp post as you sit in your front room in your undies watching emmerdale:)

Citroen Xantias used to do that on their own accord:(

Stephen_Leak

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Then what is the point in the "tamper-proof" holder?

You can't get to the front of the paper disc to erase the old details, so that new ones can forged in their place.