In my polo my tax disc fell off screen (previously a smokers car and screen never came clean, all smokers should be banned from smokig in cars, as it turns all the plastics sticky aswell), and into the windscreen vent, I couldn't find it but on full blast I could here it flapping away.
I applied for a new disc (and drove it without the disc on display), and unless the disc was stolen I could not get a new one, they wanted me to buy another one!! the assrapers, so I never bought a new one, just left it in the vent.
May have been illegal, but hey these things happen, I think it sucks that I would have had to pay another £35 (adminsterative charge LOL) for a bit of poor quality paper (my newest one for the punto I tore when I took it out of the perforated stuff, its torn right accross the silver thing, but if the police argue about it I will ram it down their throwt).
Oh and another thing, my volvo's MOT runs out on sunday night, so I will get it MOT'd this saturday, but when tax comes around how do I 'prove' I have insurance for it, as I have only driven it out on the road once, and that was with that day insure lot (£21 bloody quid too, aswell as £50 petrol and £18 train, expensive car!), so i am only using it for occasional paddling (kayaking) and mountainbiking weekends, where it is now on my insurance for the punto, as a 2nd car BUT only third party, NOT T&T, so whilst its sat on in the car park if anything happens to it I'm screwed, AND I have not insured it for the day (with my normal insurance co, churchill, its £9.70 odd fully comp) its not covered for anything.
So when I come to get a new disc at the PO I need a current MOT cert (got, and will have next one) and I need the green or red form for proof of insurance, so how do I wangle that one? As day insurance have just sent me an invoice and thats it!