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£5690....

And you can't simply write 'tax in post' and pop it in the tax disc holder like I used to with numerous two-wheeled beasties.

Guinness label

I didn't like to discriminate so no tax ran along side no insurance, no MOT, and no licence, when they caught me.

Ah....those were the days.

Used AI instead

 59 cars facing £5,690 car tax in April 2026
(Most are high-performance or large-engined petrol/diesel models)


Alfa Romeo Stelvio 2.9 V6 Bi-Turbo
Audi R8 5.2 FSI V10
Audi RS6 4.0 TFSI V8
Audi RS7 4.0 TFSI V8
Audi RSQ8 4.0 TFSI V8
Audi S8 4.0 TFSI V8
Audi SQ7 4.0 TFSI V8
Audi SQ8 4.0 TFSI V8
Aston Martin DBX 4.0 V8
Aston Martin DB12 4.0 V8
Aston Martin Vantage 4.0 V8
Bentley Bentayga 4.0 V8
Bentley Continental 4.0 V8
Bentley Continental 6.0 W12
Bentley Flying Spur 4.0 V8
BMW Alpina XB7 4.4 V8
BMW M8 4.4 V8
BMW X5 M 4.4 V8
BMW X6 M 4.4 V8
BMW X7 M 4.4 V8
Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 6.2 V8
Ferrari Purosangue 6.5 V12
Ferrari Roma 3.8T V8
Ford Mustang 5.0 V8
Ford Ranger 2.0 TD EcoBlue
Ford Ranger 3.0 EcoBlue
Ford Ranger 3.0 V6
INEOS Grenadier 3.0P
Jaguar F-Pace 5.0 P575 V8
Jeep Wrangler 2.0 GME
Lamborghini Huracan 5.2 V10
Lamborghini Urus 4.0 V8 BiTurbo
Lamborghini Revuelto 6.5 V12
Land Rover Defender 90 5.0 P425 V8
Land Rover Defender 110 5.0 P425 V8
Lotus Emira 3.5 V6
Maserati Levante 3.0 V6
Maserati Levante 3.8 V8
Maserati MC20 3.0 V6
McLaren GT 4.0T V8
Mercedes-Benz AMG GT 4.0 V8
Mercedes-Benz G400D
Mercedes-Benz G63
Mercedes-Benz GLC63
Mercedes-Benz GLE63
Mercedes-Benz GLS63h
Mercedes-Benz SL55
Porsche 718 Cayman 4.0 GT4
Porsche 911 3.7T 992 Turbo
Porsche Cayenne 4.0T V8
Porsche Macan 2.9T V6
Range Rover 4.4 P530 V8
Range Rover 4.4 P615 V8
Range Rover Sport 4.4P V8
Rolls-Royce Ghost 6.75 V12
Rolls-Royce Cullinan 6.75 V12
Toyota Hilux 2.8D
Toyota Land Cruiser 2.8D
Volkswagen Amarok 3.0 TDI

📌 These models typically emit over 255 g/km CO₂, placing them in the top Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) band with first-year tax jumping to £5,690 for vehicles newly registered on or after 1 April 2026.

📊 Why the huge tax jump?

New VED rules: The UK government has changed first-year Vehicle Excise Duty calculations so that very high-emission petrol and diesel cars now attract significantly higher tax to discourage their purchase and use.

Threshold effect: Cars emitting over 255 g/km of CO₂ now fall into the highest first-year tax band — previously up to £5,490 under the 2025 rules — but rising to £5,690 for 2026/27.

These figures apply only to first-year tax; subsequent years will revert to the standard rate of car tax with any applicable expensive car supplement added depending on list price.

If you want, I can also break down the VED costs by CO₂ band so you can see how much different cars will pay from April 2026 (e.g., low, medium and high emissions). Just let me know!

With one or two exceptions most of the above are six figure cars when new, so I suppose some can afford to pay without too much thought.

Not many though.

£5690....

And you can't simply write 'tax in post' and pop it in the tax disc holder like I used to with numerous two-wheeled beasties.

Guinness label 

wipe them clean ,examine them and look again in a couple of months !
(unless the dealer will honour their quote !!)

Now that is something I can do Cam in head!!  Thanks

Is there anything special I should use to clean them please?  I have plenty of anti rust spray, so is that any good.

I certainly will go along with this advice from you and others asap as it is POSSIBLE that there is nothing wrong with the shocks apart from being covered in dirt and grease.  Certainly I have not noticed any handling problems when driving.

Its been a long time since we had an Omega thread which produces four pages of posts in the space of a few days. 

That is because it is me posting, and I am female!!

putting all the above to one side for the moment
i cannot underdtand how 2 rubber booted shocks can have a light misting of oil anyway ?  i would have thought the only way oil could leak out of those would be a holed body in ehich case they surrly should be a definate fail so i suspect theres nothing actually wtong with your shocks at all

Very good point. 
Imo, it isnt possible to get a misting of oil on S/L shocks like you would with normal shocks.
If the bladder bursts there is oil everywhere. I know this because it happened to one of mine.
LZ - if they remove them, please keep them and I may be interested in buying them from you . 

Thanks for your great observations and advice Migv6, much appreciated.  It is obvious, as I say in my last post prior to this one, that all I can do is question my Vx dealer with the new information I am getting.  The shocks certainly look very old, and are the original I am sure with me having the car now for 13 years, and it being 23 years old, with no work ever being done on them.  As a novice on this subject, I am in the dark about what is true or not when it comes to these parts, as I have NEVER had to replace shocks before on any of my numerous cars, even when their milage zoomed to 100,000 in just over a year with driving all over the UK.

So any further advice is welcome, PLEASE  

£5690....

And you can't simply write 'tax in post' and pop it in the tax disc holder like I used to with numerous two-wheeled beasties.

putting all the above to one side for the moment
i cannot underdtand how 2 rubber booted shocks can have a light misting of oil anyway ?  i would have thought the only way oil could leak out of those would be a holed body in ehich case they surrly should be a definate fail so i suspect theres nothing actually wtong with your shocks at all

Maybe Cam in Head, but the visible condition of the shocks is not very good anyway.  Regardless of the "oil misting", they look as though, after 23 years, they need replacing.  So with my practice of having work done before it becomes critical, to keep my Omega up to the highest standards, I will just go along with it.

The comments by DG, TB and others about the quote I have had from my usually very reliable Vx dealer, has worried me greatly.  All I can do is question them, and seek another quote / reaction from the tyre, exhaust, running gear and suspension specialist I use to balance with the Vx dealer.  I have not got the time, or more importantly energy, to do anything else.  In the now distant past I would have done all the work myself, but not now, a women of 72, who has no suitable men in my life to "take over"!   Even jacking the car up yesterday, and removing the wheel, took it out of me!  I had to have a good rest afterwards before I collapsed!

This may be giving the impression to some, like DG,  that I am taking no notice of their advice.  But I always do, and are grateful for it.  The challenge for me is that I haven't always got the stamina to follow it up, apart from using my past professional skills to manage the situation in the easiest way possible and communicate with the potential dealers who may have the answers.

Which one can we now use please?

The most common seem to be https://postimages.org/  or https://imgbb.com, both of which are free at the moment. 

Gave up on Photobucket years ago. used to be Ok, but then they started "moneytising" it.

i don't post many photos anywhere now, but when I do I use imgbb . https://imgbb.com/

Others who post more photos seem to use flickr, Don't know much about that though. https://www.flickr.com/