Tax Disc

[jont-uk]

I know the Prius is tax-exempt but do I have to apply for a tax-disc of £0.00 or do I not need to have a tax disc at all?

Also anyone know how easy/ hard it is to fit the DAB unit ? ... There's a Toyota dealer with one for sale for £370 on eBay as oppose £500+ to fit

Thanks

Jon

[Grumpy Cabbie]

The car comes with a tax disc when new. You do NEED to renew it in the usual way but it doesn't cost anything for the gen3. I did mine online as it really is easy that way with no payments to make. One of my customers did suggest to me that perhaps I should have gone into the main Post Office to renew it just so I could rub it in when they ask for payment and then realise it's free :) lol

Your call.

[Sagitar]

I know the Prius is tax-exempt but do I have to apply for a tax-disc of £0.00 or do I not need to have a tax disc at all?

Also anyone know how easy/ hard it is to fit the DAB unit ? ... There's a Toyota dealer with one for sale for £370 on eBay as oppose £500+ to fit

Thanks

Jon

You definitely need to display a tax disc.

Sorry, I know nothing about the Toyota DAB. When I bought my car, I looked at the cost of the installed DAB and went into shock. Mostly I don't need DAB in the car, but on the odd occasion when I have wanted to listen to a channel not available other than on DAB, my portable does the job. It may be different in other locations.

[Jan&tone]

Yes you do need a tax disc. As grumpy says, it's nice to go into the post office with empty pockets and get next to a guy with a 4x4 paying loads of cash over the counter when you give them nothing

[jont-uk]

Or in my case my partner handing over loads of money for her Land Rover ;-) ... the Prius is our carbon offset for that and my Harley-Davidson !!

Jon

[Grumpy Cabbie]

Or in my case my partner handing over loads of money for her Land Rover ;-) ... the Prius is our carbon offset for that and my Harley-Davidson !!

Jon

lol, I've got a rich mate who has all sorts of V8 erotica and his wife often jokes that I'm attempting to offset their carbon emissions! It would take more than one Prius I fear!

[Chris Dance]

OK all you Gen 3 owners I will be joining you shortly when I get my new Gen 3. Folk I talk to just cannot believe I will be paying no road tax on the Gen 3. Of course an added bonus is the £10 per year London congestion charge.

[Jan&tone]

OK all you Gen 3 owners I will be joining you shortly when I get my new Gen 3. Folk I talk to just cannot believe I will be paying no road tax on the Gen 3. Of course an added bonus is the £10 per year London congestion charge.

I just wonder how many Prius, Auris and other hybrids etc will have to be sold before the government decides to start charging us again

[Grumpy Cabbie]

OK all you Gen 3 owners I will be joining you shortly when I get my new Gen 3. Folk I talk to just cannot believe I will be paying no road tax on the Gen 3. Of course an added bonus is the £10 per year London congestion charge.

The added bonus is you will get upset if you ever manage to get less than 50 mpg! What others class as an exceptional mpg, you will class as average and strive for 65+mpg.

[Cyker]

I get upset if I get less than 60mpg! :P

(Admittedly this is partly because a full tank of diesel in my ickle Yaris is now over 50 flamin' quid! I remember when it cost me that much to fill up my mate's old transit van!! )

[Cyker]

Is DAB worth it yet?

I was massively disappointed with it when I last tried it - It's as bad as digital TV in that you need a strong signal to even get anything out of it, and in even when you do the sound is no better than FM, and in some cases sounds closer to AM!

All that guff about the signal being far more robust than analogue is a load of cobblers too.

It'll really suck when the money grubbing sods kill off the analogue spectrum :(

[Jan&tone]

Is DAB worth it yet?

I was massively disappointed with it when I last tried it - It's as bad as digital TV in that you need a strong signal to even get anything out of it, and in even when you do the sound is no better than FM, and in some cases sounds closer to AM!

All that guff about the signal being far more robust than analogue is a load of cobblers too.

It'll really suck when the money grubbing sods kill off the analogue spectrum :(

I couldn't agree more.... Digital (freeview) tv is blood6 awful - it's supposed to be interference free! Every time one of these 2 stroke washing machine type scooters goes past our back garden we lose the picture for the duration... Thr radio is just as bad, we can get digital fine on one side of the living room, but not on the other side with a more expensive set!!

As far as putting one in the car goes, no thanks, I'll stick to analogue as long as i can then just use the hard drive or cd's

[Opifex]

I have a pocket DAB radio that works brilliantly in Berkshire havent tried it anywhere else. I could connect that to the car via the Aux socket but, honestly, I am quite happy with FM.

I understand that DAB radios will not work outside the UK because the BBC were early adopters of the technology and the rest of Europe uses later standards that are incompatible with the UK system. I have also read calls for the UK system to be changed to one of the technically superior alternatives. If you want to read more detail try looking at the seventh posting in this thread on the Living France forum http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/2174810/ShowPost.aspx

[Mkuk0]

Pure highway DAB in my Gen 2, fed thru Aux socket, 95% of the time its perfect, planet rock all day every day lovely! Only place I have a problem is round Aylesbury, even driving into London poses no problems at all. Personally I love it!

[Seamaster73]

Reports of the imminent demise of FM have been greatly exaggerated.

[dwilson]

Is DAB worth it yet?

I was massively disappointed with it when I last tried it - It's as bad as digital TV in that you need a strong signal to even get anything out of it, and in even when you do the sound is no better than FM, and in some cases sounds closer to AM!

All that guff about the signal being far more robust than analogue is a load of cobblers too.

It'll really suck when the money grubbing sods kill off the analogue spectrum :(

I couldn't agree more.... Digital (freeview) tv is blood6 awful - it's supposed to be interference free! Every time one of these 2 stroke washing machine type scooters goes past our back garden we lose the picture for the duration... Thr radio is just as bad, we can get digital fine on one side of the living room, but not on the other side with a more expensive set!!

As far as putting one in the car goes, no thanks, I'll stick to analogue as long as i can then just use the hard drive or cd's

Forgive me for going off topic of hybrids, but at home I am paying quite a lot each month for Sky+HD including sport, film and multiroom. To save money I am thinking of doing away with this and was going to use Freeview and have a new aerial installed, but if this is really blood6 awful would I be better going for Freesat instead?

Thanks for any replies,

David

[Seamaster73]

If you're in an area of poor Freeview reception, yes. If Freeview signal is strong where you are, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.

[kithmo]

Is DAB worth it yet?

I was massively disappointed with it when I last tried it - It's as bad as digital TV in that you need a strong signal to even get anything out of it, and in even when you do the sound is no better than FM, and in some cases sounds closer to AM!

All that guff about the signal being far more robust than analogue is a load of cobblers too.

It'll really suck when the money grubbing sods kill off the analogue spectrum :(

I couldn't agree more.... Digital (freeview) tv is blood6 awful - it's supposed to be interference free! Every time one of these 2 stroke washing machine type scooters goes past our back garden we lose the picture for the duration... Thr radio is just as bad, we can get digital fine on one side of the living room, but not on the other side with a more expensive set!!

As far as putting one in the car goes, no thanks, I'll stick to analogue as long as i can then just use the hard drive or cd's

Forgive me for going off topic of hybrids, but at home I am paying quite a lot each month for Sky+HD including sport, film and multiroom. To save money I am thinking of doing away with this and was going to use Freeview and have a new aerial installed, but if this is really blood6 awful would I be better going for Freesat instead?

Thanks for any replies,

David

Go for both Freeview and Freesat, you don't get all the same range of channels on each. Make sure you get HD tuners not HDMI upscaling with standard tuners or you wont get the HD channels.

[Grumpy Cabbie]

And proper HD is worth EVERY penny! Love it!

Go for a minimum of a 1080hd and then go for all the other options if your budget allows.

[dwilson]

Many thanks for all your replies about freesat and freeview - very useful, as always.

At present I have 1080p TV and Sky HD but am looking to economise somewhere. Mind you I also have BT for landline and broadband and I think that is another area for me to look at!

Back on topic, just paid £180 for tax on my wife's Auris which seems a lot compared with £10 for the Gen 2 (but a lot less than the £425 on my previous Subaru). Both cars are being serviced next week - the Prius should be free but the Auris is going to cost big time I fear! Tyres will no doubt be the next cost!

[Opifex]

Back on topic, just paid £180 for tax on my wife's Auris which seems a lot .........

Only £180? My wife's ancient automatic Polo costs us £205 in tax - and only does about 25mpg. Luckily it doesn't get used very much.

I'm in favour of scrapping road tax and putting the duty on fuel instead. That way the more fuel you use, the more the country has to import, the more you pollute, so the more you pay.

[Jan&tone]

Back on topic, just paid £180 for tax on my wife's Auris which seems a lot .........

Only £180? My wife's ancient automatic Polo costs us £205 in tax - and only does about 25mpg. Luckily it doesn't get used very much.

I'm in favour of scrapping road tax and putting the duty on fuel instead. That way the more fuel you use, the more the country has to import, the more you pollute, so the more you pay.

Oi, s*d off! I've just got a car that is tax exempt, the government will cotton on soon enough, we don't need you to suggest it thankyou very much

Having said that, it would be a great way of making sure that everyone paid the RFL.... All we've got to do then is to find some way of making sure that everyone pays their insurance!

[Seamaster73]

At present I have 1080p TV and Sky HD but am looking to economise somewhere. Mind you I also have BT for landline and broadband and I think that is another area for me to look at!

They might offer you a deal if you take BT Vision?

[Grumpy Cabbie]

Back on topic, just paid £180 for tax on my wife's Auris which seems a lot .........

Only £180? My wife's ancient automatic Polo costs us £205 in tax - and only does about 25mpg. Luckily it doesn't get used very much.

I'm in favour of scrapping road tax and putting the duty on fuel instead. That way the more fuel you use, the more the country has to import, the more you pollute, so the more you pay.

Says the guy who lives half the time in France

[Peter Sale]

If you have Sky+ then you will have twin LNB set up and can easily hook up a Humax twin tuner Freesat recorder. You don't need to do anything with the dish, just connect the signal cable. As I only had a single (cheap) Sky connection I just got a single channel Humax tuner which doesn't record. Since found that I probably could have worked round it, with some limitations.

HD quality on Freesat is superb even if only on three channels at the mo .....