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[AtW]

It was under the passenger seat...

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[Diver]

It has been increased pretty steaply (sp?) already, hasn't it?

Yes but increase it more and that will be even more cars off the road. If it costs ten grand a year to keep a car on the road, only a few of us will be using the roads.

[AtW]

Simple, quadruple the road tax.

It has been increased pretty steaply (sp?) already, hasn't it?

[Diver]

And that will hit the economy - less taxes will be collected too since a big chunk of them comes from fuel duty.

Simple, quadruple the road tax.

[AtW]

No, I just think that it would take a considerable amount of unnecessary traffic off our roads.

And that will hit the economy - less taxes will be collected too since a big chunk of them comes from fuel duty.

[Diver]

Are you a carp-shop mechanic?

No, I just think that it would take a considerable amount of unnecessary traffic off our roads.

[AtW]

I think it should be every six months myself

Are you a carp-shop mechanic?

[Diver]

I see plenty of cars on the road that surely fail MOT at any given time (like taillights are not all working), yet people clearly can get away with it - I am not convinced that it is impossible to just pay some extra to get MOT pass on almost anything.

2 years period for MOT for 3-10 years old cars is surely an obvious idea, isn't that what they have in Europe?

I think it should be every six months myself

[AtW]

I see plenty of cars on the road that surely fail MOT at any given time (like taillights are not all working), yet people clearly can get away with it - I am not convinced that it is impossible to just pay some extra to get MOT pass on almost anything.

2 years period for MOT for 3-10 years old cars is surely an obvious idea, isn't that what they have in Europe?

[Diver]

Why did you not just collect it from the post office?

Couldn't find the MOT and Insurance papers

[Diver]

FWIW I got my car tax online last year and it arrived within a couple of days.

Of course, where you live, it depends on how long it takes the Post Office pony to get up the hill

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Depends how long it takes the postman to get his ass up the hill

[NickFitz]

Taxed my 4x4 on line this morning, it runs out tomorrow. it takes 5 working days for the tax disk to arrive. does this mean I can be prosecuted for not displaying?

FWIW I got my car tax online last year and it arrived within a couple of days.

Of course, where you live, it depends on how long it takes the Post Office pony to get up the hill

[NickFitz]

Wasn't there some talk a while ago about changing the rules so that older cars only need an MOT every two years?

That'll really speed things up on the road, with broken down bangers blocking a lane every few hundred yards.

As somebody who drives a nineteen-year-old car, I very much want to have it tested at least once a year - not so much because I'm bothered about blocking the road (I have it serviced frequently, so that's only happened once in the seven years I've owned it) but because I want to be sure it's safe to drive.

[BrilloPad]

Taxed my 4x4 on line this morning, it runs out tomorrow. it takes 5 working days for the tax disk to arrive. does this mean I can be prosecuted for not displaying?

Why did you not just collect it from the post office?

[Diver]

Yes.

The alternatives such as "tax applied for" or a guiness label are also frowned upon by the ptb.

How about I put the email receipt from .gov in the window