Displaying your Tax Insurance and NCT discs...

DanGerMus

So i know you have to for one, but gaddamn it if they arent ugly and the display pockets are hideous IMO. Anyone ever come up with a decent way of displaying them.
Can you have them on a plate of some sort that isnt actually attached to the window maybe lying on the dash?

Run_to_da_hills

DanGerMus wrote: »

So i know you have to for one, but gaddamn it if they arent ugly and the display pockets are hideous IMO. Anyone ever come up with a decent way of displaying them.
Can you have them on a plate of some sort that isnt actually attached to the window maybe lying on the dash?

I brought this subject up last year, many cars in south Dublin now have 4 displays in a row. Tax, NCT, Insurance and a parking permit. The most I have ever seen was five. :eek: the four mentioned plus a wheelchair sticker.

It is also damn ugly and would be illegal in many countries including parts of the states because it an obstruction to the windshield. In the States you have your "tax disk" stuck on to your license plate.

I guess with the current trend of E_tagging cars all this primitave visual form of identification will eventually become a thing of the past :pac:

Anan1

I put the NCT behind the insurance disc, I can always pull it out if it's asked for.

Esel

I use clear adhesive, a separate square for each cert.

miceal

I would love to use this

http://www.speeding.co.uk/acatalog/tdhph200.jpg

Wishbone Ash

DanGerMus wrote: »

Can you have them on a plate of some sort that isnt actually attached to the window maybe lying on the dash?

If the vehicle is equipped with are windscreen, the tax disc is legally required to be fixed to it (on the lower nearside and not more than 2 inches from the edge).

(I'm not sure if the same applies to insurance/NCT).

Fozzie Bear

esel wrote: »

I use clear adhesive, a separate square for each cert.

Same as that. I use double sided adhesive tape to stick the discs to my windscreen. No need for a seperate disc holder pouch that curls at the sides and starts to droop and peel off the window. That used to piss me off no end as it looked crap. The way I do it now looks really neat and tidy and hardly noticeable from inside the car.

G Luxel

mine are behind the rear view mirror. Some guards told me that I had to put them at the bottom of the windscreen as '' I could be fined as the guards would think i had no disks as they dont look around the windscreen... bizarre.......:eek:

Wishbone Ash

G Luxel wrote: »

mine are behind the rear view mirror. Some guards told me that I had to put them at the bottom of the windscreen as '' I could be fined as the guards would think i had no disks as they dont look around the windscreen... bizarre.......:eek:

The reason that they are required to be on the lower nearside is to make them easier to see especially in vehicles with high windscreens such as buses and trucks.

mike65

Putting them above the mirror is a handy way of blocking a low sun

Thoie

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I brought this subject up last year, many cars in south Dublin now have 4 displays in a row. Tax, NCT, Insurance and a parking permit. The most I have ever seen was five. :eek: the four mentioned plus a wheelchair sticker.

I've got tax, insurance, NCT, work parking permit, home parking permit, and e-tag, as well as one from a fecking garage telling me my next service is due April 2005. I've taken a blade, WD40, white spirits and a sponge to that bloody thing and it still won't come off. If they introduce anything else I'll have to get a hole cut in the windscreen to look out through.

marinbike

DanGerMus wrote: »

So i know you have to for one, but gaddamn it if they arent ugly and the display pockets are hideous IMO. Anyone ever come up with a decent way of displaying them.
Can you have them on a plate of some sort that isnt actually attached to the window maybe lying on the dash?

Yes, I have done this:

Using the front sun visor, you can stick the discs to the outside of it. Use sellotape otherwise use pritt stick (paper glue) if the sun visor material is non-stickable. Pull the visor down anytime you park your car or approach a traffic checkpoint.



Important: A few things to take into consideration:


(1)
Make sure the sun visor is pulled down anytime you park your car on the street because the traffic warden has jurisdiction to fine you €60 for not displaying the tax disc on the windscreen. I dont know how this would work out for displaying it on the sun visor, even though it would still be on display. I don't think there is any law stating the disc has to be 'physically' mounted to the windscreen.

(2)
Make sure the discs are not upside down and can be clearly seen from the front.

(3)
If the top of your windscreen has a sun strip and your sun visor's view is obstructed by it, do not go with this option.



Hope this is helpful!

Guy:Incognito

Are you all driving cars with 4' x 2' windscreens? I use the clear plastic method and have the either in a row from top corner down or along the top or bottom of the windscreen. It has never blocked my view on any of my cars.

Thoie

Stekelly wrote: »

Are you all driving cars with 4' x 2' windscreens? I use the clear plastic method and have the eith in a row from top corner down or along the top or bottom of the windscreen. It has never blocked my view on any of my cars.

OK, I was exaggerating, I can still see, it just bugs me to see the windscreen "cluttered", and they're all a pain in the neck to clean around. If I just stopped cleaning my windscreen it probably wouldn't bug me so much. Then again, it also displeases me if they go on crooked and aren't perfectly aligned with 90degree angles, so I might not be the best person to be discussing this

Hagar

[Rant]Is there any chance we could all stop calling the window applied insurance document a disc? It's not a disc, discs are round, insurance whatyamacallits are squareish not round. Same for NCT, parking permits etc. They are not discs!!! [/Rant]

Glad I got that off my chest.

Thoie

Hagar wrote: »

[Rant]Is there any chance we could all stop calling the window applied insurance document a disc? It's not a disc, discs are round, insurance whatyamacallits are squareish not round. Same for NCT, parking permits etc. They are not discs!!! [/Rant]

Glad I got that off my chest.

Phew. I should invite you around sometime so that we can ensure the passenger seat is perfectly lined up with the driver seat in terms of forward position and back angle. Then we can can square off tax discs so that they fit in with everything else.

Wishbone Ash

Thoie wrote: »

I've got tax, insurance, NCT, work parking permit, home parking permit, and e-tag

You could remove both parking permits, get them laminated into an A5 sized sheet and just display them when parked.

Wishbone Ash

Hagar wrote: »

[Rant]Is there any chance we could all stop calling the window applied insurance document a disc? It's not a disc, discs are round, insurance whatyamacallits are squareish not round. Same for NCT, parking permits etc. They are not discs!!! [/Rant]

Glad I got that off my chest.

Well, if we are going to go down that road, we'll have to call the 'tax disc' by its proper title - a "vehicle licence".

Hagar

Ah sure ignore me, I'm just jealous because I don't have to pay for a Tax Disc / Vehicle Licence. My insurance disc is officially a "pastille".

Our man in Havana

My insurance disc is officially a "pastille".

And it is the size of a postage stamp.