A warning about blanking number plates out
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likewise in germany, france, holland, norway, etc etc etc
belgium takes the **** though as you only get 1, you have to make a front plate yourself
[TW]Fox;13871626 said:
I think you're being difficult
Say I am a criminal with a blue mk3 mondeo needing a new identity to assume, whats easier? Driving around trying to find the car or look through auto trader searching for the exact car. The crim will always go for the easy option.
And how much would we be charged for a set of plates?
£50 + VAT + Tax of some kind and 7 day wait.
Why not put something unique on your car like for instance, BOBBLING HEAD YODA or something that a camera would easily spot
Perhaps a muppet \m/
On a more serious note though, are cloned plates often standard p[lates or does that apply to private plates too?
I'd imagine it would be hard to clone a plate of a car that has had individual options added to it - well not hard but a hassle, like optional Xenons for example so you cane easily prove the car caught on camera is not yours but a clone?
*drives around with Xenons on all day*
Perhaps a muppet \m/
On a more serious note though, are cloned plates often standard p[lates or does that apply to private plates too?
I'd imagine it would be hard to clone a plate of a car that has had individual options added to it - well not hard but a hassle, like optional Xenons for example so you cane easily prove the car caught on camera is not yours but a clone?
*drives around with Xenons on all day*
if it's anything like belgium or germany, they make them in front of you after you've done all the paperwork in the office upstairs.
or, you can have them posted if you there's a massive queue.
registering a car requires ridiculous amounts of paperwork usually, especially if the plates stay with the owner, not the car..
you're quite lucky in the UK. in other countries, you'd never be able to pop into a dealer, buy a car and drive it out straight away..
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TBH, even ig they had been successful in claiming ownership of the car, I doubt they would have been able to collect it.
Their best chance would be to order a key at a dealer, then steal the car with it.
Their best chance would be to order a key at a dealer, then steal the car with it.
This is one reason I have the silly "VTEC y0!" slogan on my plate as well as the Civic Type-R logo. They are a minor annoyance to officers with a rod up their rear and they cost about £30 to copy, which is enough to put off potential cloners.
This is a problem we shouldn't have in this day and age and it just shows that even if we have big brother cameras all over the place the innocent people are still unprotected and inconvenienced. I'm not really going to worry about it. Plates are everywhere and if someone wants to clone it they will, be it in person or via the internet. The only argument here is that posting a pic of your plate online will give it a wider audience I suppose.
This is a problem we shouldn't have in this day and age and it just shows that even if we have big brother cameras all over the place the innocent people are still unprotected and inconvenienced. I'm not really going to worry about it. Plates are everywhere and if someone wants to clone it they will, be it in person or via the internet. The only argument here is that posting a pic of your plate online will give it a wider audience I suppose.
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This is actually not what happens. You don't 'claim ownership' of a vehicle and the V5 does not show who the owner of the vehicle is, either. It merely shows the registered keeper, so you can simply claim to be the registered keeper. This might seem pedantic but there is a HUGE difference, the legal owner of a vehicle is not neccesarily the registered keeper and becoming the RK doesnt suddenly mean you own the car.
Is the apparent ease with which the crooks were able to get the DVLA to consider their V5 request at all helped by them being able to add weight to their request with details such as the address of the previous keeper? Presumably they sussed the address from info in the original advert? Or is it as simple as them just telling the DLVA the colour, make and reg of the car?
Probably the latter. I'm not aware of how anyone would be able to guess the address from my advert unless they were local.
Obviously this is all speculation, but worrying nonetheless.
Anyone can do that, I could do it for your car right now - all I need is the registration number. I dont need your name or your address. Thats why the DVLA then sends a confirmation letter out first.
I could walk into Tesco carpark right now, pick a car, and apply for a V5. But what use would it be? The owner has to ignore the letter first, and even then I get... a V5. Showing I am the registered keeper but NOT the owner..
I could walk into Tesco carpark right now, pick a car, and apply for a V5. But what use would it be? The owner has to ignore the letter first, and even then I get... a V5. Showing I am the registered keeper but NOT the owner..
but in Sweden, only the government can sell you alcohol to drink at home!
they go too far
[TW]Fox;13878248 said:
Presumably the DLVA don't send their letter out with a stamped addressed envelope you can use to write back to tell them to **** off. Being a particularly tight get, that alone would encourage me to take precaustions when displaying my car on internet forums/adverts etc where likely crooks may frequent. But as you say there is nothing you can to prevent a crook using his Mk I eyes and a pen and paper in a car park.
The reason I asked about the address thing is that on that google street view thing you can clearly see my cars number plate as it is sat on my drive. I wasn't overly bothered by this as what use could it be, unless being able to link it to your address was useful to a crook browsing for houses to burgle and the like, but who also did a sideline in cloned cars.