OCTOBER 1st - Clear windscreen?!

jumperjohn

So with the new road fund licence rules regarding the display of the paper tax disc in your car windscreen, this will no longer have to be there, who, on October 1st, will remove the disc from their winscreen and feel a little bit naughty while driving around, although quite legal!:rotfl:

force_ten

does this mean i can take my 20 year old beer bottle label out of my car window now

Iceweasel

It won't make a whole load of difference as I have loads of other things displayed.

LEZ (Low Emissions Zone) Green Sticker

Royal British Legion Parking Permit

Isle of Man Heritage Parking Permit

Austrian Motorway Vignette

Slovenian Motorway Vignette

Car Club Membership Sticker

ADAC Membership Sticker

Emergency Rescue Info Sticker

Sat-Nav

Screen-Cam

Traffic News Antenna

Altimeter

Passenger Rear-View Mirror

Just as well it's a big windscreen.

All of the above are needed - the VED Disc didn't serve a useful purpose at all.

I'd really like to remove some of the stickers and passes and only display them when I need them - but removing most of them would destroy them as they are the tamperproof type - they don't come off in one piece.

What will other folks still have left on their windscreen?

Inner_Zone

Iceweasel wrote: »

What will other folks still have left on their windscreen?

Local council residents parking permit only.

Tilt

I posted this on another thread on the subject;

Problem is that ANPR or the DVLA records don't sometimes catch owners who havn't paid the duty. Some (as I've pointed out many times) will buy a second hand car and give false details to the DVLA. They will find the new system easier for them to getaway with paying because they only get caught when they are stopped by the police OR clamped by the DVLA. I live on the Isle of Wight and there is no regular DVLA presence here. Neither has the DVLA installed any ANPR cameras to replace the tax disc (they claim that it will in future "police" untaxed cars using ANPR technology). This threat of clamping un-taxed cars and then crushing them are simply just that... threats. It dosn't move the hardened motorist who chooses not to abide by the rules and these people will multiply after October 1st because without a disc, they will become more invisible.

wiogs

jumperjohn wrote: »

So with the new road fund licence rules regarding the display of the paper tax disc in your car windscreen, this will no longer have to be there, who, on October 1st, will remove the disc from their winscreen and feel a little bit naughty while driving around, although quite legal!:rotfl:

I will remove it so I can clean that bit of window properly and there will be nothing stuck on any of my windows now (apart from the rear view mirror)

Certainly won't feel naughty

force_ten

Iceweasel wrote: »

It won't make a whole load of difference as I have loads of other things displayed.

LEZ (Low Emissions Zone) Green Sticker

Royal British Legion Parking Permit

Isle of Man Heritage Parking Permit

Austrian Motorway Vignette

Slovenian Motorway Vignette

Car Club Membership Sticker

ADAC Membership Sticker

Emergency Rescue Info Sticker

Sat-Nav

Screen-Cam

Traffic News Antenna

Altimeter

Passenger Rear-View Mirror

Just as well it's a big windscreen.

All of the above are needed - the VED Disc didn't serve a useful purpose at all.

I'd really like to remove some of the stickers and passes and only display them when I need them - but removing most of them would destroy them as they are the tamperproof type - they don't come off in one piece.

What will other folks still have left on their windscreen?

with all that on the screen how do you see out :rotfl::rotfl:

I will have a rear view mirror that is it and that is the way i like it, first thing i do when i buy a car is remove all the dealers stickers and anything else that is not required

agrinnall

Iceweasel wrote: »

It won't make a whole load of difference as I have loads of other things displayed.

LEZ (Low Emissions Zone) Green Sticker

Royal British Legion Parking Permit

Isle of Man Heritage Parking Permit

Austrian Motorway Vignette

Slovenian Motorway Vignette

Car Club Membership Sticker

ADAC Membership Sticker

Emergency Rescue Info Sticker

Sat-Nav

Screen-Cam

Traffic News Antenna

Altimeter

Passenger Rear-View Mirror

Just as well it's a big windscreen.

All of the above are needed - the VED Disc didn't serve a useful purpose at all.

I'd really like to remove some of the stickers and passes and only display them when I need them - but removing most of them would destroy them as they are the tamperproof type - they don't come off in one piece.

What will other folks still have left on their windscreen?

So what do you do when you need an MoT and the test centre tells you that the windscreen is too obscured to pass? I had a theoretical failure once simply because I'd fogotten to remove the satnav mount. Or do you just buy a new car before a MoT is needed?

pulliptears

Can't wait, I drive a Fiat 500 and need all the screen room I can get

Gloomendoom

agrinnall wrote: »

So what do you do when you need an MoT and the test centre tells you that the windscreen is too obscured to pass? I had a theoretical failure once simply because I'd fogotten to remove the satnav mount. Or do you just buy a new car before a MoT is needed?

Reminds me of my dad going to work on frosty mornings back in the 1960/70's. He used to scrape clear a letter box sized patch on the windscreen just big enough to see through. I never worked out how he didn't hit, or get hit by, any of the other cars on the road... most with similar letter box sized viewing holes and frosted up side windows.

Iceweasel

agrinnall wrote: »

So what do you do when you need an MoT and the test centre tells you that the windscreen is too obscured to pass? I had a theoretical failure once simply because I'd fogotten to remove the satnav mount. Or do you just buy a new car before a MoT is needed?

I actually passed it's first MOT last month - and the tester said to only remove the Sat-Nav mount which is low down in the centre of the windscreen.

Everything else was OK as they are as close as possible to the edge of the screen.