What's the point in being careful, there's nothing you can do if somebody gets hold of your number. Just think how many people see it every day. Also if it's private, sometimes, it's easier for the scum bags to remember.

 

1. Think this is why people block out their plates when posting in Members' Gallery etc.

2. Might be wrong, but I think you'll find the police have "impounded" a car that has, by the sounds of it, been "compounded" by someone else?

Seriously, good luck.

 

Wow! so there is another tarty silver bugeye out there then?

 

Ringer in local garage with same story last week.

 

Paul, had your car in a magazine? Was the plate covered up?

Apparenty it's quite common with the m/c magazines, readers see a similar bike to theirs on test and get an identical plate made up. Can't see what one can do about it really.

 

I think you COULD do something about it, if you were the government, and could be bothered, but no revenue from it means no interest from Lying Labour.:
Why do we not have to show our log books when we have plates made up? Simple, really, isn't it?
Alcazar

 

I have warned people to hide thier plates in the gallery,but got slagged off,so dont bother anymore.

The undesirables can use your plate as youve mentioned above,but whats more alarming they can find the name and address of the owner.

 

With the new plates dont you have to show the v5, and that is why all number plate makers have to be registered. or have I been blinded by spin ??

 

How strange and worrying. I'm not sure, if I wanted to put a false set of plates on a car, I'd choose a reg number as distictive as yours Paul. Surely the whole point of a false reg is not to draw attention to the car? Yours is a pretty memorable number.

 

@pbee

thats what i thought m8. though having said that i went into my local car parts shop the other day in a shopping centre. now there must be hundreds of cars in the car park and i said that i wanted a nice set of plates for my subaru. the guy replied "that wouldn't be the nice white classic shape would it". I replied "yep sure is", to which he replied "yeah we heard you coming into the shopping centre"

surprising how they stick out, i was well chuffed

Oh got the plates btw, slightly *cough* illegal, but i was asked for nothin, no log book, no verifaction of address, no proof of ownership.

cheers

big sinky

 

Its called 'ringing' crims steal a car and clone the id from another one and sell it on. Get an HPI check done when you buy. A friend in the last place I worked got a speeding ticket from the police for a place and time that he wasn't there. He was in work about 30 miles away. The police eventually gave up.

 

Mark - very valid point, a memorable plate, and car as well. it's not like you see a car like Paul's every day now is it.

Prob someone trying to get round congestion charging.

 

in theory it shouldn;t be possible now to get a plate without proof that your the owner.

trouble is on the one hand you get staff who aren't arsed and don't ask and on the other hand all they did when the rule was implemented was to make it a requirement to register if you wanted to sell number plates, they didn't make it a requirement for anyone who already had a machine to register so there are probably thousands of numberplate machines out there with no checks attached to them and you can be sure that a fw questions in the right pubs / dodgy garages will enable you to get a plate made up without any proof

 

Halfords need to see v5 etc. they are well strict. Getting my new ones made up tomorrow ready for the Surrey meet on sunday

Paul, what did they say they were going to do about it?

 

happened to my on my previous car - rover 220gti. police knock me up (had been workin nightshifts) havin already had a good look round my car, wantin to know where I'd been on a certain date - at work.

they had cctv footage of a car (same colour, make, model) as mine with my reg plates in a hit and run in manchester. that wasnt too bad to convince them, but kept gettin speedin tickets through - complete pain in the *** to clear. everyone in manchesters speed enforcement unit thang treat me like a crim - took ages to sort out. gave me a good excuse to get my personal plate tho...

someone must have seen my car somewhere. doesnt have to have been in a mag/on the web...

 

All the little car accesory type shops cannot afford to turn business away. Saw someone get a set made up..no questions.

 

Avert the problem of undesirables cloning your numberplate by cloning someone else's first.. Stands to reason

I'll get my coat......

 

I know it stating the bleedin obvious. All this business about buying number plates from shops without the V5 is pretty irrelevant as the sort off people who go out ringing cars are either in the trade, have friends in the trade or would not think twice about having the plates of the real car. Just think, doesn't take a genius to go out in the middle of the night armed with just a screwdriver does it??

Sorry to pish on your strawberries,

Ed

 

I had an Astra GTE 16V 10 yrs ago. I used to travel down to Stourport in the week for work.
Whilst I was on holiday, the feds came round to my parents house and asked to look at my car. They asked if it had always been burgundy.
It turned out that some shat-heads in Kidderminster were driving around in a white GTE with my plates on!! They had done one or two petty things like drive off without paying for petrol.

Scum!

 

Exactly! .. just the ordinary law abiding citizen and shop owner been screwed over by ANOTHER dumb-*** law that will NEVER effect the people it needs to!

 

My wife works for Capita Group who r the ones responsible for the Congestion charge

You would not beleive how many people are getting letters for not paying the CC even tho they never go to london.

The CC has just highlighted how many registration plates are out there on cars that shouldnt be

 

I have just had the police turn up at my house !
They have compounded a silver scoob with my plates on it !
It has been driving around in a surrounding county !
I dont know what we can do to stop this happening but just wanted to let people know that it is happening !
My car looks very different to a standard car & the plate on it is a personalised one which isnt age related ie the year of the plate would normally be on an older shape car !

Please guys take care of your cars & be ultra careful !

[Edited by Fulham71 - 3/7/2003 11:01:08 AM]