Number plate blanking in pictures

Presumably though the risk is the same as it is parking your car in Tesco carpark.

I blank my plate because everyone else does it.. :/
 
I don't see how blanking out number plates in pictures on the internets can prevent registration cloning.

Surely it's no more risky than driving down a public road with your plates on display :confused:
 
Surely it would be hard to match my car though? They would need similar mods to mine and seems like lots of effort for little return?

I did find that an insurance quote came back quote based on my private plates as a 1.2 sporting punto? but others come back as a Golf... must just be their old systems or something?
 
[TW]Fox;10849990 said:
Presumably though the risk is the same as it is parking your car in Tesco carpark.

I blank my plate because everyone else does it.. :/
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Not really - if you want a green old-style subaru impreza, for example, a quick search on google is much quicker than waiting for a few days at Tesco.
 
First step in ringing a car, theres no more risk doing it online that say going past the same Make, Model and colour on the motorway, on ANPR it will just show as the make and model untill its put through PNC and the Chasis checked.
 
[TW]Fox;10850050 said:
Yea, becuase Golfs with replica Audi wheels on are really rare :p
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I didn't say they were rare, just a unique mix which would be silly to copy over a standard 1.6 with hubs, tango etc

In my colour, debadged, with GTI lights, alloys and the pretty obvious numberplate I doubt it would be sensible or even worth the effort of cloning. :D
 
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Not really - if you want a green old-style subaru impreza, for example, a quick search on google is much quicker than waiting for a few days at Tesco.
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I was thinking that.

If you want a specific car, where else but an owners club on the internet.
 
I guess if people are posting up on forums with details of the mods they've done, and someone's looking around and sees the number plate, they've got a bit more of a chance of finding out where it is if they decide "ooh, I like that, I'll have it"

That said, I've got my full specifications and registration plate visible right next to each other on a few places, and I don't really mind, I have the documentation to prove the car is my own, and some of the mods on mine are unique, and can easily be told apart from another (providing there is photographic evidence!)
 
[TW]Fox;10849990 said:
I blank my plate because everyone else does it.. :/
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But as you have not blanked it in the past, I have it in my diary, when I'm next i'm Plymouth I'll spot you & ram you off the road....... :p;):D


(Actually, I'd flash you, hopefully get you to stop & look at your car whilst you look at my truck. - It would be nice if it ever happened.)

I never liked "publishing" the reg of my old BMW as it was the only one of its kind in my area, and I had a distinctive plate on it, and I like to remain incognito. That said, on more than one occasion when I used to park it outside Oc/UK to buy whatever, some weirdo would come upto me saying "are you R124 blah blah from the forums?" I denied it flatly once, the look on the guys face was a picture! :D
 
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If you're driving something tuned and documented online plus have a memorable plate then you could easily become a victim.

A guy on the CTRO forums, although I don't know if his car had been photographed with its plate, has had his well known 300+bhp CTR stolen once by forced entry into his house while he was there, not once, but twice! They never got caught the first time even after hitting an old lady with it, but its pretty obvious the car was targeted.

I blank my plate purely because of photos I've taken at meets. People on the forums don't want their plates showing for various reasons so I take them all off.
 
My dad got his car cloned. He got a speeding ticket through the post from kent police (he lives in Leeds) he couldnt recall having been anywhere near the area and when he checked his emails in his outbox he had sent an email 3 minutes before the picture was taken from his house in Leeds. Now you may think that he did the 240 miles in three minutes hence the fine, but as his car is a k reg volvo 340 complete with hammerite sills you will see why it didn't happen. He requested the photos to see who was driving and a picture came back of a white volvo 340 in much much better condition than his shed but with a bloke of about 30 driving it. He contacted the police who took a note and sent a letter to say sorry for the trouble.

About 4 weeks later he got a letter asking him to make an appointment at the local police forensic garage to have his car inspected for authenticity and to bring any documentation along with him. I went with for the laugh. The copper who looked at it checked engine and chassis number looked at the paperwork my dad had (volvo invoice for new sale and old service book) and decided it was legit. Apparently the other car had been cloned from a stolen motor. The ringers had seen my dads car advertised on Autotrader website when he bought it copied the reg number, forged the v5 (not hard to do at all i belive, but wont stand up to rigourus checks but most punters wouldn't notice) and advertised the car on autotrader about 4 weeks later for sale in essex not leedsat a bargin price "to clear"

It is much more likely to happen to a run of the mill easily stealable car than a piece of exotica.

Infact I've just looked on autotrader now and i could get the reg number of 4 identical Volvo S60 T5's just like mine
 
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