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pab

Member Since: 28 Aug 2012
Location: Now in Mid-Wales
Posts: 2007

2009 Freelander 2 TD4 XS Manual Lago Grey

You can go out and remove it right now!

1st Oct 2014 12:17 pm

3disco

Member Since: 18 Apr 2014
Location: devon
Posts: 659

Yes it seems so!

1st Oct 2014 12:20 pm

shiggsy

Member Since: 13 Jan 2013
Location: Kent
Posts: 799

2007 Freelander 2 TD4 HSE Auto Baltic Blue

Servers swamped due to unprecedented demand...no really? You'd think they would know exactly how many people would be renewing today.
Hung like Einstein, smart as a horse.

1st Oct 2014 12:59 pm

Iliacus

Member Since: 24 Jan 2014
Location: Herefordshire
Posts: 256

2013 Freelander 2 SD4 XS Auto Orkney Grey

shilen wrote:
I have never understood why petrol stations are not fitted with ANPR camera's.

You pull up at a pump, and the ANPR checks your reg for tax, insurance, MOT and if there is an issue with any one of them it doesn't release the nozzle from the pump. If you have no fuel then you cannot drive SIMPLE!!!

They do! My wife had the plates nicked from her car in Derby and when she reported it the police said it was invariably used to fill up and drive off. They (thieves, not police) do this overnight so by the time it is reported they have ditched the stolen plates and are back on the correct ones.

Look out for a lot more nicked plates now that you don't need a tax disc. Perhaps there needs to be a more secure way of fixing them rather than the cheap plastic bolts. GONE - '07 TD4 GS manual Zermatt Silver
LONG GONE - '55 Norton Dominator 99 SS cafe racer

1st Oct 2014 1:46 pm

Offshore1987

Member Since: 11 May 2014
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 496

2007 Freelander 2 TD4 XS Auto Baltic Blue

Just removed it

Come off ok only few sticky bits lol

Now we just need to get rid of the front number plate and the trucks will look as they should from the factory!

Dan

Re above post, you can buy better nick proof number plate bolts ( might be worth buying some now forsure ) Freelander 57 plate XS Blue Auto

1st Oct 2014 3:03 pm

choccymonster

Member Since: 27 Sep 2013
Location: Chichester, West Sussex
Posts: 513

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I have little sympathy with those caught up in the server meltdown at the DVLA.

Don't understand why so many people are trying to tax their car today?

Those whose tax ran out yesterday have been able to renew for weeks - why leave it until today?

Quote on the BBC news site suggests one chap is "disgusted. I need to tax my car urgently to go to work, and now I can't as the servers have crashed".

If it was that mission critical why didn't you tax it 2 weeks ago?

Sure - stuff happens that some people HAVE to do it today, and you could argue the infrastructure should be a bit beefier (especially on "changeover day"). But for everyone to leave it to the last minute simply means they have been, to a certain extent, the architects of their own misfortune.

1st Oct 2014 5:38 pm

taztastic

Member Since: 03 Feb 2011
Location: North West
Posts: 8652

I echo those sentiments entirely, too many hard of thinking numbskulls around, serves them right.

1st Oct 2014 6:01 pm

Brainzzz

Member Since: 22 Mar 2013
Location: west sussex
Posts: 135

2011 Freelander 2 SD4 XS Auto Stornoway Grey

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Tax disk gone as of this morning the renewal came through early September and sorted online two weeks ago......it does feel odd to drive with out the little paper disk.....

1st Oct 2014 6:09 pm

JST

Member Since: 01 Nov 2011
Location: Lizant
Posts: 1098

2007 Freelander 2 TD4 HSE Manual Narvik Black

choccymonster wrote:
I have little sympathy with those caught up in the server meltdown at the DVLA.

Don't understand why so many people are trying to tax their car today?

Those whose tax ran out yesterday have been able to renew for weeks - why leave it until today?

Quote on the BBC news site suggests one chap is "disgusted. I need to tax my car urgently to go to work, and now I can't as the servers have crashed".

If it was that mission critical why didn't you tax it 2 weeks ago?

Sure - stuff happens that some people HAVE to do it today, and you could argue the infrastructure should be a bit beefier (especially on "changeover day"). But for everyone to leave it to the last minute simply means they have been, to a certain extent, the architects of their own misfortune.

I tend to agree but I guess there will have been a lot of people waiting for the end of the month pay to go in the bank before they can tax the car. John
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Triumph Rocket 111 (sadly gone!)

1st Oct 2014 7:07 pm

choccymonster

Member Since: 27 Sep 2013
Location: Chichester, West Sussex
Posts: 513

No more than any other previous month.

The extra people who have logged on today (leaving it until the last minute) that have brought it to it's knees have clearly fundamentally misunderstood the whole new system.

I say again - I have no sympathy.

1st Oct 2014 7:41 pm

taztastic

Member Since: 03 Feb 2011
Location: North West
Posts: 8652

It would be ironic if the police ANPR cameras used the same computer system to check

1st Oct 2014 7:47 pm

npinks

Member Since: 28 Jun 2007
Location: Ls25
Posts: 20090

Left mine in, can't be arsed cleaning the windscreen Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

1st Oct 2014 7:59 pm

Stevie5tapes

Member Since: 10 Jun 2012
Location: Brighouse, YORKSHIRE
Posts: 1370

2013 Freelander 2 TD4_e GS Auto Sumatra Black

choccymonster wrote:
I have little sympathy with those caught up in the server meltdown at the DVLA.

Don't understand why so many people are trying to tax their car today?

Those whose tax ran out yesterday have been able to renew for weeks - why leave it until today?

Quote on the BBC news site suggests one chap is "disgusted. I need to tax my car urgently to go to work, and now I can't as the servers have crashed".

If it was that mission critical why didn't you tax it 2 weeks ago?

Sure - stuff happens that some people HAVE to do it today, and you could argue the infrastructure should be a bit beefier (especially on "changeover day"). But for everyone to leave it to the last minute simply means they have been, to a certain extent, the architects of their own misfortune.

I agree also. At the end if the day, people could tax via online or via a post office. Black MY2013 SD4 GS Auto, Wood Company Armrest, Freel2 sticker.
Gone MY2010 Freelander 2 Manual TD4.e S, Alaska White.

1st Oct 2014 9:00 pm

bish789

Member Since: 30 Apr 2012
Location: St. Andrews
Posts: 512

2011 Freelander 2 TD4_e GS Manual Santorini Black

It's a bit like think it was in 1974 when front number plates on motorbikes became unnecessary. I remember taking a pair of pliers and riving mine off. All my mates did it as well. For one day we felt like criminals, then the novelty wore off. Will be the same when the tax disc comes out.

1st Oct 2014 9:09 pm

Stevie5tapes

Member Since: 10 Jun 2012
Location: Brighouse, YORKSHIRE
Posts: 1370

I taxed my car today at the post office, all I got to prove to anyone in person if asked is my Post Office receipt. Ive scanned it so I will keep the original in the car.

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Gone MY2010 Freelander 2 Manual TD4.e S, Alaska White.

11th Oct 2014 4:26 pm

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