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Motor Tax Disk Question

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  • 30-03-2005 7:11pm
    #1
    mike65
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    Why are they different colours? And whats yours! :D

    Mike.


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    Kêrmêttê
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    They're different colours for the different quarters of the year afaik.
    Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun, July-Sept, Oct-Dec.
    Mine's green and blue.. I think... expires end of Jun 05.


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    Silvera
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    AFAIK, the colours change each year only. Why?... to make it more obvious that it's current (or out of date), and in an effort to twart counterfiting.


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    BrianD3
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    Does anyone here keep their old tax discs. I have all of mine dating back to 1996.

    BrianD3


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    BrianD
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    Why keep them? All you need is a nosey passenger shuffling around looking at your disks and putting them back in the wrong order!

    Interesting that they are different colours. I know someone who makes theirs in Photoshop. Hope he got the colour right!!! I, on the other hand, pay mine.


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    BrianD3
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    BrianD wrote:
    Why keep them? All you need is a nosey passenger shuffling around looking at your disks and putting them back in the wrong order!
    Has happened - except it wasn't a passenger that put them back in the wrong order :eek: Fortinately, I spotted that I was displaying a 5 year old tax disc before the gardai did :)

    BrianD3


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    Our man in Havana
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    mike65 wrote:
    Why are they different colours? And whats yours! :D

    Mike.
    Tourcoise blue/sickly Green atm, the colour changed in January.

    Also being a resident of Port Lairge Mike, have you noticed they still slap a big trianglular stamp across their disks? why is this? Mine is a nice clean SN issued one. I was once accused of having a forgery because it lacked the big stamp.


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    Furp
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    I always assumed that Tax discs where different colours so that a Garda could easily spot if the current tax disc was valid by seeing the colour of it from a distance without having to get close enoough to read it.


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    gaui3d0pnbz86o
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    Does anyone here keep their old tax discs. I have all of mine dating back to 1996.

    i have all mine since '89, they came in the car when i bought it! funny thing i find is looking at the price rise over the years!!


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    FX Meister
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    Don't know if they worry about counterfeiting. I saw a knob that crashed into me in town driving another car with no insurance. When the cops arrived they looked at his discs and said his tax disc was defo a fake as it was the wrong colour but they just said they were not going to do anything about it.


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    mike65
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    Bond-007 wrote:
    Tourcoise blue/sickly Green atm, the colour changed in January.

    Also being a resident of Port Lairge Mike, have you noticed they still slap a big trianglular stamp across their disks? why is this? Mine is a nice clean SN issued one. I was once accused of having a forgery because it lacked the big stamp.

    I've got my "just about to be expired" disk here and its got no triangle. Maybe its a County thing! I'll check tomorrow.

    Mike.


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