Position of tax disk holder?

sean1141

dose your tax/insurance/nct disk holders have to be displayed on the drivers side of your front window?? i was under the impression they could be displayed anywhere on the front window but was told otherwise this evening

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sean1141 wrote: »

dose your tax/insurance/nct disk holders have to be displayed on the drivers side of your front window?? i was under the impression they could be displayed anywhere on the front window but was told otherwise this evening

I think most people have them on the passenger side.

corktina

nevertheless I believe that they SHOULD be on the drivers side officially to make it easy for a Gard in the midlle o'road to read them. Pasenger side is more out of the way though.

Yawns

if it were on the drivers side would it not impair the vision of the driver?

Whoever told you so must have their heard up their arse

No one cares if the passenger can't see 100% as long as the driver can

eimear1

Always have mine on passenger side, at the bottom, and never had a problem, even when stopped by the guards. Would presume to have it on drivers side would obscure your view, (only slightly but still)! Not sure if there are actual rules about it though.
Who has told you otherwise?
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Yawns

Best I can find so far is UK where it says it must be displayed on kerb side which would be passenger side.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/OwningAVehicle/HowToTaxYourVehicle/DG_10021514

CiniO

Start from the point that acutally displaying anything on the front window is not a good idea.
I'm surprices that's the legal requirement in Ireland.
Anything that impairs vision through the window is not a good idea.
So actually putting your discs on the right side would be completely stupid.
I have my discs on left side on the top, as I found that position impairs the vision the least.

Yawns

Well techinally it must be displayed in the front windscreen. It doesn't say where tho on any Irish website. So that means you can put them on the back of your sun visor and flip it down when parked to display. Once it's displayed in the windscreen, job done.

CiniO

Yawns wrote: »

Well techinally it must be displayed in the front windscreen. It doesn't say where tho on any Irish website. So that means you can put them on the back of your sun visor and flip it down when parked to display. Once it's displayed in the windscreen, job done.

Very good idea actually.

sean1141

Yawns wrote: »

Whoever told you so must have their heard up their arse

a member of AGS.. his words were it should be on the drivers side for the ease of viewing!!:rolleyes:
going true my head was you lazy git!! i suppose it would make it easier for him but i cant find any rule saying it has to be on the drivers side. i have it on the top of the passengers side out of my line of site!

Yawns

Ok here goes another one!

5.
(2) The insurance disc shall be carried in a conspicuous position on the windscreen of the vehicle in such manner that it shall be both visible and readily accessible for inspection and be so located that it does not obscure the vision of the driver while the vehicle is being driven or in the case of a vehicle not fitted with a windscreen in a conspicuous position on the near side of the vehicle.

Taken from http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1984/en/si/0355.html

So passenger side is fine and better than drivers side as it doesn't obscure driver as much as if it were on their side. Also my theory above would be correct.

Yawns

Mr. AGS should make sure he knows the full fact before giving advice. It should be on side nearest kerb because you only need to display it in a public place. So 9/10 it would be read while the car is parked. If the car is parallel parked then the person would be inspecting it from the kerb, so it would be easier and safer to inspect it from the kerb with the discs on kerb side.

Tigger

sean1141 wrote: »

a member of AGS.. his words were it should be on the drivers side for the ease of viewing!!:rolleyes:
going true my head was you lazy git!! i suppose it would make it easier for him but i cant find any rule saying it has to be on the drivers side. i have it on the top of the passengers side out of my line of site!

yeah you drive what? a white/red car with decent spec id guess

the ministerial fleet display on th passebger side

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/2009/0717/1224250847491_1.jpg

as doers ever cop car i';ve ever seen

http://buncranafirebrigade.com/garda1.jpg

you shouild have asked about his (no me neither)

coylemj

sean1141 wrote: »

a member of AGS.. his words were it should be on the drivers side for the ease of viewing!!:rolleyes:

That is complete BS, I don't know how many times I've been stopped at random checkpoints, as soon as it's my turn I pull up and the Garda walks to the centre of my front bumper from where he/she can see the dates on the insurance and tax discs down in the lower passenger-side corner of my windscreen, not one member of the force has ever said that it should be anywhere else.

When I was a young lad in the 60s a lot of people used to put the tax disc at the top of the windscreen in the centre but since the insurance discs came along almost everyone puts the two discs (with NCT if applicable) in a single holder in the lower passenger corner.

dunsandin

On the passenger side, slightly obscured by the wiper blade, just in case any of the fine print details don't quite meet spec! That seems to be the norm around here anyway.

mickdw

One thing I used to love about my old alfa 166 is that the gardai used to have to walk right around the front of the car to get close enough to read the discs. They would always try the usual thing of looking across or going around the front alittle but they could never read them due to the long bonnet.

bazz26

I used to place them in the centre of the windscreen right behind the rear view mirror. That way they were not blocking my view and were easy to read from the outside. But in my last few cars it is not possible due to the auto dipping mirror/rain senor, so now I have them on the top corner at the passenger side of the windscreen.

challengemaster

Mine are centered at the top of the windscreen, right behind the rear view mirror. Works like a charm

Yawns

Yawns wrote: »

Well techinally it must be displayed in the front windscreen. It doesn't say where tho on any Irish website. So that means you can put them on the back of your sun visor and flip it down when parked to display. Once it's displayed in the windscreen, job done.

Top tint on the screen and that won't work :pac:

Neilw

I've always had mint on the top LHS of the windscreen, I find if the disc holder is at the bottom LHS it creates a slight blind spot at the front of the car.

sean1141

guess he was having a bad day or something. he never told me to move them or anything just that they ''should'' be on the drivers side!
this was the first time anything was ever said to me about it and i have been true a good few checkpoints i always put them on the top passenger side.. did nearly drive over a guard in my avensis do!! only after buying it and was waiting for the log book to come back so i had no tax just a change of ownership slip.. he looked, waved me on and just as i was pulling off he stepped back in front of me!!

corktina

mine is on the passenger side as thats the sensible place to have it, nevertheless, Im sure I saw a regulation somewhere a good few years ago saying it should be on the drivers side.

VERYinterested

All the illegally parked 'vehicles' on Harcourt Street have their tax disc holders on the left side.

Parking violations range from parking in a Coach Park/Taxi Rank, on double yellow lines, up on the footpath, blocking ramps at the kerbside and the cars in the Coach Parks are all double parked to the annoyance and inconvenience of the Luas drivers.

Ironically most of these cars are the personal property of the members of AGS who enjoy free parking while they work. The remainder of the cars are battered 07 Mondeos and Carinas that belong to the Emergency Response Unit!

Op, sounds like this guy got out of the wrong side of the bed and couldn't think of anything worse to say to you.

Milo Minderbinder

What are these "Tax Disks" you speak of?

bladespin

Tigger wrote: »

http://buncranafirebrigade.com/garda1.jpg

you shouild have asked about his (no me neither)

Anyone else noted that squad car isn't roadworthy??? Just for laughs like lol.

keithclancy

Don't have any crap on the windscreen, the cops just check my license plate to check i've paid my road tax/insurance/fines and have an APK(NCT) on my car.

galwaytt

RoverJames wrote: »

Top tint on the screen and that won't work :pac:

er, yes it will. If car has an NCT, and therefore a duly legal tint, it's entirely legit. Even the SI doesn't mention tint........

galwaytt

galwaytt wrote: »

er, yes it will. If car has an NCT, and therefore a duly legal tint, it's entirely legit. Even the SI doesn't mention tint........

Well if you have your insurance, tax and NCT discs behind a top tint that prevents them being seen you are not displaying them are you

sean1141

VERYinterested wrote: »

Op, sounds like this guy got out of the wrong side of the bed and couldn't think of anything worse to say to you.

ya more than likely.... or else he likes the sound of his own voice..

Shed.

sean1141 wrote: »

dose your tax/insurance/nct disk holders have to be displayed on the drivers side of your front window?? i was under the impression they could be displayed anywhere on the front window but was told otherwise this evening

Nonsense.

newmember2

I'll go with must be nearside and visible from the front of the vehicle.

colm_mcm

Shed. wrote: »

Nonsense.

Maybe it was the case 8 YEARS AGO

:rolleyes:

biko

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