In article <11EEFA4B6844D511A0E70008C71E9F018F397E@ABDEXH01>, Richard
Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com> writes
>Mike,
>
>Carly really seems to attract attention from the wrong sort of people,
>doesn't she??
Yes. :-(
>
>May I suggest a magnetic tax disc holder? These have a magnetised ring that
>sticks to the windscreen, and a thin metal disc that will cling to the back
>of it. Then you could remove the tax disc while the car was parked - a faff
>to do every time, true, but less of a faff than getting yet another disc
>from the DVLA and maybe replacing yet another hood.
Yes, but also illegal (a tax disc must be displayed at all times when
the vehicle is on a public road).
>
>I have a vague feeling I saw some on a stand at TRGB, but I might well be
>wrong.
I'll see if I can find one in Halfords today. If I get nicked, I can
always try to argue the case. This business of having to keep the damn
thing in the lower-left-hand side of the windscreen is such a pain. If
I could mount it in a metal frame (like motorbikes have), perhaps on the
front bumper, it would be a lot less vulnerable.
>
>Be glad, at least, that Spit hoods are quite cheap.
Nevertheless, I'd rather lose the tax disc than lose the tax disc and
the hood. That tonneau cover is staying on.
> I remember an MX-5
>owning friend getting a new hood for his car, and that was about #400, plus
>it could only be fitted professionally at extra cost.
The last time I lost the tax disc, the policeman to whom I reported it
mentioned that several other convertibles had had their tops slashed for
access to tax discs the same evening. One BMW owner was looking at a
GBP1300 bill to have his replaced.
ATB
--
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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