******Motors Chat - Round 6******

tossy

GvidoR wrote: »

Saw a car with a noob plate in the window for the first time today.

lol noob

bear1

You sure it wasn't a NOB sticket?

Noccy_Mondy

Welcome back Gvidoreen! Seemed like you were gone into hiding! :pac:

Noccy_Mondy

GvidoR wrote:

Saw a car with a noob plate in the window for the first time today.

Welcome back gvidoreen! Seemed like you were gone into hiding! :pac:

GvidoR

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Welcome back gvidoreen! Seemed like you were gone into hiding! :pac:

I can run, but I can't hide. :pac:

Noccy_Mondy

I think I,ve posted thw same thing a few times. wirhout doubt you can't beat a desktop for replying!

bear1

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

I think I,ve posted thw same thing a few times. wirhout doubt you can't beat a desktop for replying!

Or spelling

toastedpickles

GvidoR wrote: »

I can run, but I can't hide. :pac:

Did you find the lights yet?

YbFocus

Have you not been on lately? You have to collect your lights

tossy

So my sister just got a letter saying that her details have been passed onto the guards as the car is out of tax since the end of july, but she is telling me on the reverse there is a section to complete and declare it as been off the road/not in her ownership for that point.

Anyone know anything about this ? i thought the days of declaring a car off the road after the fact were gone.

GvidoR

YbFocus wrote: »

Have you not been on lately? You have to collect your lights

Collect them from where? :eek:

YbFocus

GvidoR wrote: »

Collect them from where? :eek:

Look Back through my posts, basically they are in the middle of the roundabout at tesco carrick on Shannon
They were somewhere else the week before but we moved them. It's been a kind of running gig around here

GvidoR

Sounds like I'm going to have to go on a scavenger hunt.

toastedpickles

GvidoR wrote: »

Sounds like I'm going to have to go on a scavenger hunt.

Cant bate a good scavenger hunt

GvidoR

So where do I look? The layby or tesco roundabout? :P

toastedpickles

Tesco roundabout :P

Old diesel

bear1 wrote: »

I think I could even live with the tax rates but only if you could pay it monthly as they are about to introduce in the UK.
It may work out a tiny bit more expensive but I think a lot of people will find it easier to pay 100e or so a month to have a bigger engined car than take a huge hit all at once.

The idea of been able to pay tax for any day you are using the car - ie 10 days tax would be interesting too.

Isn't it Austria and Switzerland where you pay tax by the day - or have I got that completely wrong

RandomAccess

Car outside apartment puffing plumes of white smoke.
Chatted to driver she said it just lost power. Was a 1.2 corsa petrol from enterprise hire car. Shagged I guess.
141 reg, surprised to see that kind of failure on a new car.

Chris_Heilong

RandomAccess wrote: »

Car outside apartment puffing plumes of white smoke.
Chatted to driver she said it just lost power. Was a 1.2 corsa petrol from enterprise hire car. Shagged I guess.
141 reg, surprised to see that kind of failure on a new car.

That car is absolute crap, I had the same model from Enterprise, would really make you hate driving.

Chris_Heilong

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

That car is absolute crap, I had the same model from Enterprise, would really make you hate driving.

Had one from enterprise in the UK last year for a weekend too. Did the job but was as interesting as watching paint dry. Although I liked the cruise control

YbFocus

GvidoR wrote: »

So where do I look? The layby or tesco roundabout? :P

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=91892155

toastedpickles

YbFocus wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=91892155

I still can't believe you actually done this :pac:

YbFocus

It is a bit mad

GvidoR Here's round 1 so that at least you can see how long they were waiting for you in carrick for the past month

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=91769510

toastedpickles

Just a tad mad :pac: still though if he gets them then its a job well done

YbFocus

Old diesel wrote: »

The idea of been able to pay tax for any day you are using the car - ie 10 days tax would be interesting too.

Isn't it Austria and Switzerland where you pay tax by the day - or have I got that completely wrong

Tax on a 3l+ would then be 4.95 daily which doesn't seem nearly as bad

quadrifoglio verde

YbFocus wrote: »

Tax on a 3l+ would then be 4.95 daily which doesn't seem nearly as bad

It'd be impossible to administer, it'd make more sense to go down the tax on fuel line rather than a daily rate.

That being said, if there was a weekend tax, at 1/3 the monthly rate, that could be used from 9 pm on a Friday to 6 am on a Monday I'd say they'd make a decent bit extra. I know I'd be running both alfas as opposed to just the gtv at the moment.

Caught on the road with weekend tax outside of that time frame and it's a 1000 euro fine, failure to pay leads to seizure by the sheriff. Allow the go safe vans to check for tax, anpr scans your number plate, shows that it has no tax/wrong tax and you get sent a fine. Afterall it'd allow the guardians of the peace to do just that.

A lot of the a-b people don't realise how many of us there are out there with more than one car, but we can only afford to have one road legal at any one time.

YbFocus

I love the weekend tax idea can you run for government qv?

GvidoR

Hmmm

YbFocus

Good luck, they are somewhere there

Hint: possibly not at ground level

quadrifoglio verde

YbFocus wrote: »

I love the weekend tax idea can you run for government qv?

God no, even if the pay was twice what it is currently, I wouldn't put up with the ****e that they do. People wanting free houses and moaning about no jobs and wanting buggies and a bouncy castle for kids communion. And then have every journalist examining my every mood. Feck that crap.