tax disc holder positioning

vector

I have a three disc holder tax,insurance,nct
where should I position it

mike65

Nice graphic!

I have mine at the top left so the Gards have to walk across the front of my car, whoops sorry officer!

One place you might put it is the top middle of the screen, behind the mirror that way a low sun does'nt dazzle.

Mike.

Seth Brundle

I don't think there is anywhere legally it must be. Best off putting it somewhere out of your line of vision of pedestrians, etc.

Squirrel

Fitting them to new cars I put them as far down the passenger side of the windscreen as possible, doesn't block line of sight.

Silvera

I agree with Squirrel, bottom lefthand (passenger side) corner of windscreen, out of line-of-sight. Look's better there too !

m4cker

Behind the rear view mirror. It Blocks the sun and acts as an extra long sun visor. also doesn't block line of sight as the rear view mirror is there too

py2006

m4cker wrote:

Behind the rear view mirror. It Blocks the sun and acts as an extra long sun visor. also doesn't block line of sight as the rear view mirror is there too

Thats an odd one! I dont think I have ever seen anybody do that! Does it not look a little odd???

Speaking of odd, I saw a learner driver the other day with his/her Learner Sticker on the bonnet just above the License plate!!

Silvera

My father used to place his discs behind the rear view mirror back in the early 1980's, as many other drivers did then.

Haven't seen too many doing it in recent times - except for rental cars.

Dilbert75

I have mine behind the rear view mirror - reason for not picking the bottom left is that a kid, even one of my own, could end up near the car when I'm trying to reverse. A little person mightn't be visible over it. I put the NCT disc in the middle, as its only changed every 2 years and is the least convenient to get to.

_Kaiser_

Bottom left for me

Our man in Havana

Bottom left where they are forced to lift the wiper to check the details

Squirrel

Bond-007 wrote:

Bottom left where they are forced to lift the wiper to check the details

Smooth.

fletch

Bond-007 wrote:

Bottom left where they are forced to lift the wiper to check the details

Me too

vector

Yes, that is the most unintrusive position.
Also its better to use a holder taht is made out of black or transparent plastic over one made out of white.

Silvera

I have used a black holder for the first time recently, and I have to agree - it looks better from both outside and inside the car (less distracting too).

Ernie Ball

Where can you get a black three-disc holder in Dublin?

vector

Ernie Ball wrote:

Where can you get a black three-disc holder in Dublin?

I got mine from the garage where I get my car serviced for free,

But you "local" NCT centre might sell them (the one in Cork does) the common need for a 3 disc holder was brought about by the NCT

PlayaFlow

who gives a crap!! you're all like a bunch of women deciding what shade of red lipstick to wear , pathetic.

Guy:Incognito

PlayaFlow wrote:

who gives a crap!! you're all like a bunch of women deciding what shade of red lipstick to wear , pathetic.

Says the guy who wants to put fancy lights on his 12 year old car.

Ernie Ball

Stekelly wrote:

Says the guy who wants to put fancy lights on his 12 year old car.

Touché!

PlayaFlow

touche???
creatining a thread about where to put your disc holder = sad
creating a thread about where to find mod parts for a car = not so sad

so cram it with walnuts beatrice!

Guy:Incognito

PlayaFlow wrote:

touche???
creatining a thread about where to put your disc holder = sad
creating a thread about where to find mod parts for a car = not so sad

so cram it with walnuts beatrice!

There are a lot of people who would consider spending money on fancy lights as sad. If you want a lexus, buy a lexus. YOu bought a mitsubishi colt, deal with it.

byte

Bond-007 wrote:

Bottom left where they are forced to lift the wiper to check the details

Ditto

CJhaughey

Behind the Rearview mirror, I only have two discs because it's a commercial.
It blocks sun and sits in the green tinted band so doesn't look too obtrusive.

Lord Nikon

I have a white 3 disc holder, and it sucks compared to the 2 disc jobby.

I like the UK way with just one round disc, real smooth.

Remember the clear stuff that people used to cover their schoolbooks and copies with. I was thinking of putting my discs onto some of this, and sticking it to the windscreen. Might look alot better than the current disc holders.

blastman

Be a bugger to change them, though.

I have mine in the bottom left. Unfortunately it's a white holder though, Halfraud's only do a white one, it seems (although you can buy a tax disc holder that looks like an F1 fuel cap for the guts of €30....woooo!)

Our man in Havana

blastman wrote:

Be a bugger to change them, though.

I have mine in the bottom left. Unfortunately it's a white holder though, Halfraud's only do a white one, it seems (although you can buy a tax disc holder that looks like an F1 fuel cap for the guts of €30....woooo!)

You would have to be mad to buy that.

Dades

Two discs bottom right thanks for coming.

ambro25

Bottom Left, under wiper, three perfectly lined-up, individual magnetic round holders - looks class

vector

Bond-007 wrote:

You would have to be mad to buy that.

or you'd have to be driving a lowered vauxhall corsa

blastman

ambro25 wrote:

Bottom Left, under wiper, three perfectly lined-up, individual magnetic round holders - looks class

Considering two of the discs are square, I have my doubts

Silvera

Any of you guys ever thought that smaller discs would be much better ?

The original insurance discs were less than half the size of current ins discs!
(I remember my father had one in the early 80's from PMPA. Ins discs were also originally optionally displayed)

ambro25

blastman wrote:

Considering two of the discs are square, I have my doubts

Have your doubts, I've got 'trimmed' colour copies in the round holders (it's a convert, which I rarely but sometimes leave parked top down, and I don't fancy coming back to no NCT/Ins/Tax disc, ta very much ).

vector

All discs should be square and of an equal dimensions and paper thickness

Currently all insurance discs are too wide (you have to trim some of the green) and currently tax discs are round.

That said my perfect situation would be to have no discs displayed. PULSE has records on insurance and tax for every registration number (number plate)
if this idea needs more selling then listen to this, if allrecords were electronic then the dept of transport could make a mint by licencing access to hpi checkers and so on, just like an post does with its geocodes

unkel

Bottom left here too, not obstructing my vision, but allowing a Garda to inspect from 3 meters away with or without his torch. I have always passed Garda checkpoints (about 100 in the last few years) without even having to slow down / cause further delay to myself or other motorists by having the Garda to move closer to my car to check the discs

vector wrote:

my perfect situation would be to have no discs displayed. PULSE has records on insurance and tax

I paid a lot of hard-earned money for PULSE and it is not used well. I was disgusted having to pay extra for a financial sweetener to all Gardai so that the unions would encourage the Gardai to endorse it's use. BTW, it is not used at all for routine checkpoints. Agree with you vector that it should!

vector

unkel wrote:

I paid a lot of hard-earned money for PULSE and it is not used well. I was disgusted having to pay extra for a financial sweetener to all Gardai so that the unions would encourage the Gardai to endorse it's use. BTW, it is not used at all for routine checkpoints. Agree with you vector that it should!

Its too slow to use, firstly the guarda must speak the registration over the air, then aparently (according to a guard I know) there is a delay while the info comes from the database first the make model tax insurance, then something else

they would need handheld pdas