Having been away from home for the last month, I came back last night to discover this big sheet of A4 stuck on my windscreen.

On closer inspection, well, just see the pics!

The fabia is taxed - I renewed it about 6 weeks ago, but due to postal strikes, it arrived after I left and of course the tax disc in the window hasn't been changed since. I've now found the new tax disc and will put it in car, but do you think I need to do anything about it?

I would have thought that a borough council would have the ability to check if a car is taxed or not - as mine is taxed, I just haven't put the new disc on show. I know it's an offence to not have a valid tax disc on show (even if car is taxed), so I guess I should be grateful that it's the council who's spotted it (or a local resident reporting it :rubchin: ) and not the local plod. Although given my circumstances, I'd be a bit peeved if they did considering I haven't had the chance to put the new disc in yet!

Had a go at taking it off and it's stuck on with superglue :mad: :thumbdwn:

Having been away from home for the last month, I came back last night to discover this big sheet of A4 stuck on my windscreen.

On closer inspection, well, just see the pics!

The fabia is taxed - I renewed it about 6 weeks ago, but due to postal strikes, it arrived after I left and of course the tax disc in the window hasn't been changed since. I've now found the new tax disc and will put it in car, but do you think I need to do anything about it?

I would have thought that a borough council would have the ability to check if a car is taxed or not - as mine is taxed, I just haven't put the new disc on show. I know it's an offence to not have a valid tax disc on show (even if car is taxed), so I guess I should be grateful that it's the council who's spotted it (or a local resident reporting it :rubchin: ) and not the local plod. Although given my circumstances, I'd be a bit peeved if they did considering I haven't had the chance to put the new disc in yet!

Had a go at taking it off and it's stuck on with superglue :mad: :thumbdwn:

Try using Isopropyl to get it off, if that don't work warm it up and try a small amount of Celly. Gotta be careful not to damage the laminate. I know what they were trying to acheive but i'd still be giving them grief about it etc. They could have damaged your windscreen and thats not on.

I would ring them.

One of the people I work with had this, his car was taxed but the disc wasn't on display in the car. He was told that not displaying the tax disk is illegal even if it is taxed.

just be glad they didnt tow it and crush it!

ive heard of it happening in london where they just crush the car without even giving you the chance to sort it out! i think thats bad, if its a genuine person like yourself then it should be a little nudge first before they get heavy handed.

surely a quick visit to the council or a phone call to be safe would be the best action?

Hiya mate

that is really nasty - superglue is hell to remove neatly.

Sure you've stuck the new sticker on by now - silly beurocracy gone mad imho...

May want to edit the pic - it has your reg on it.

you don't have to do anything now,but count yourself lucky it wasn't taken and crushed,i am in the scrap game and you wouldn't believe the sorts of cars i see get crushed on a weekly basis,a crying shame with some.

I would do nothing except display the tax disc. I don't think the local police can do anything, its DVLA who issue fines for non-display of tax discs.

i would offer them a small claims court proceddings for the windscreen and also send a photo of the tax disc and the date of issue stamp on tax disc and ask them to explain their poor service

Well, managed to remove the offending notice. Fortunately, was a lot easier - old hotel room swipe card + warm water and it came off quite easy.

it won't do any harm ringing them and explaining the circumstances of the lack of a valid tax disc

I'm looking forward to the same treatment to my Escort then I guess - it's running out on the MOT and not had time to get it sorted, in Holland again now so I'm gonna have to get a little lucky, or declare it off road :(

or not received the renewal/sorn in the post

Well, managed to remove the offending notice. Fortunately, was a lot easier - old hotel room swipe card + warm water and it came off quite easy.

Your road name is written on the bit of paper... :eek:

FFS, what the hell has it got to do with the borough council? I'd have got them to come and remove it personally :P

There is a max fine of £1000 for not displaying a tax disk.

As for crushing, they can't do that for not being taxed. I understand a crushing scheme is being trialled regarding no insurance though.

Personally, I wouldn't have an issue with the fairly polite notice for non-display of a tax-disc as its an automatic 50 euro fine over here.

Where I DO have issues are with the placement of the notice, directly in the driver's line of sight, and the fact that the notice has not been signed by an identifiable public official / employee.

Guidelines over here are that warning notices like these are only posted on the driver's side-window, NOT plastered on the fecken windscreen for crying out loud. :thumbdwn:

I'd be inclined to whinge a bit to them, but not too much

fire bomb them.

go down their office with super glue and a huge poster of a male genital and glue it to their windows if asked what you doing just say you thought they would appreciate the employee of the month poster for one of their staff members

ok ill grab my coat and leave....

Local Authorities deal with abandoned vehicles, and where I live, the problem has been so great that the council set up a special abandoned vehicles unit with its own contact number.

At the request of local residents a council inspector will visit and if the vehicle is not showing a tax disk, he will a fix a sticker this even applies on private residents' car parks.

If they don't receive a response from the owner within 21 days then action is initiated and a firm of private contractors instructed to do the removal - I sure that before doing this they must check whether the vehicle is registered and whether it has been declared SORN.

Round here no sooner has one dumped vehicle been towed away, than another one turns up. Of course there might be a vested economic interest at work there ! - given that the contractor probably does private work alongside his council duties.

From your photos looks like the Council Housing Authority is the body actioning this. I get onto them PDQ and back it up with a letter/fax.

Once the removal process is initiated you may become liable for all sorts of costs.

Nick,

10/11/07

Well, our local council removes and crushes untaxed cars, they had a well publicised purge recently which involved the police/dvla and the council.

FFS, what the hell has it got to do with the borough council? I'd have got them to come and remove it personally :P

There is a max fine of £1000 for not displaying a tax disk.

As for crushing, they can't do that for not being taxed. I understand a crushing scheme is being trialled regarding no insurance though.

they can,we are contracted to collerct them,and you never know what you are going to get,anything from the usual abandoned crap to a 55 plate mini cooper s a couple of weeks ago,that was the newest car for quite a bit,watched it go through the baler myself,sometimes get a bit of stick from the owners but there is nothing they can do about it when we get it on the wagon.

And how did that help the owner, the council, the environment most of all, or the neighbourhood? Reducing £15000 worth of car to a £10 cube of steel - who profits, exactly? (apart from, no doubt, the firm contracted to tow them away, probably at more than the scrap value of the car). Now the owner may well have a bad debt he is unable to pay off, so he will eventually become another burden on the State, or another bad debt for a bank, pushing up the rest of our borrowing rates, and so on and so forth.

Funny how those contracted to do the work take such pleasure from it, yet if anyone were to touch their own cars, they'd be up in arms. Just a sign of the ridiculous nanny state we live in these days. Bah!

And how did that help the owner, the council, the environment most of all, or the neighbourhood? Reducing £15000 worth of car to a £10 cube of steel - who profits, exactly? (apart from, no doubt, the firm contracted to tow them away, probably at more than the scrap value of the car). Now the owner may well have a bad debt he is unable to pay off, so he will eventually become another burden on the State, or another bad debt for a bank, pushing up the rest of our borrowing rates, and so on and so forth.

Funny how those contracted to do the work take such pleasure from it, yet if anyone were to touch their own cars, they'd be up in arms. Just a sign of the ridiculous nanny state we live in these days. Bah!

:iagree:

Surely it would make more sense to give the owner of higher value cars chance to pay up once the car has been impounded, and If they still don't pay up send the car to auctions.

That has to a better way of recycling the car than simply crushing it!

i take no pleasure from this at all,its just part of the job,driving a scrap wagon,blame the council,don't know what the point of it is,i can understand it with abandoned vehicles but these are blatently not abandoned,it is a shame,we are not allowed to touch or remove anything so we don't profit as such from this activity,and at the nominated scrap yard the car is depoluted and baled without any part removal,the price per ton of light iron is then paid to the council,roughly £70 per ton,we don't do this that often to be fair,but haulage is so bad at the moment that i will take any paying work that comes my way,to keep myself off the dole,and at the end of the day if these people had displayed a valid tax disk they would not find themselves in this unfortunate position,you can allways go to the post office and buy your tax over the counter.

if the council crushed my 55 plate car for something like car tax then i really would firebomb the place. ********.

i take no pleasure from this at all,its just part of the job,driving a scrap wagon,blame the council,don't know what the point of it is,i can understand it with abandoned vehicles but these are blatently not abandoned,it is a shame,we are not allowed to touch or remove anything so we don't profit as such from this activity,and at the nominated scrap yard the car is depoluted and baled without any part removal,the price per ton of light iron is then paid to the council,roughly £70 per ton,we don't do this that often to be fair,but haulage is so bad at the moment that i will take any paying work that comes my way,to keep myself off the dole,and at the end of the day if these people had displayed a valid tax disk they would not find themselves in this unfortunate position,you can allways go to the post office and buy your tax over the counter.

(my bold) i'm sure traffic wardens console themselves in a similar manner