car has been cloned!

pitkin2020

red_eye wrote: »

I think you will find that the clone plates will be removed shortly after packing up, that is if they had the brains which they would have if the managed to clone the plate

Maybe, maybe not. The car could be being used by the person who cloned or they could simply have a stolen car cloned that they have sold. The driver or current owner may not even be aware that its a clone. Not a very smart criminal though to clone a private plate lol.

The other issue here is IF the car is insured then it goes to show the insurance companies do sweet FA to prevent such things as they share info between companies, surely it wouldn't be that hard to see that a car has two policies on it and as far as i'm aware your only supposed to have one policy on car, you can't double insure a car.

Lum

Actually cloning a private plate could be a good idea as in theory they can move between cars. It would work if your only goal is to avoid detection by speed cameras and the like, rather than trying to disguise a stolen car.

Keep the real plates in the boot then imagine you just got pulled and the copper notices the VIN doesn't match up.

"Oh, it's a private plate, I've only just put it on, the DVLA mustn't've updated the records yet"

"Oh, no problem, I'll get it sorted with the DVLA. I've got the original plates in the boot I'll just put those back on until then?"

silvercar

rev_henry wrote: »

Consider putting your private plate on retention and putting the original plate back on, just for a bit until its sorted out. That way the plate should come up on ANPR as 'no trace' and it means your car and the dodgy car have different plates.

Don't want to risk doing this as the plate could then be registered to the clone and it could be a nightmare to get it back.

Also its expensive to get it put back on retention then on the car again.

Plus hubbie will start to say his car is looking old if its got the original plates on it, and want a new car. So these plates are money saving.

Plus plus we bought the plate to put on our car, why should we not be able to use it by criminals?

Just checked on google street view and the car wasn't home at the time, so the plate hasn't been picked up from there.

ukmike

Just checked on google street view and the car wasn't home at the time, so the plate hasn't been picked up from there.

number plates are blanked out on street view!

thenudeone

pitkin2020 wrote: »

you can't double insure a car.

Nothing to stop two people having each having a policy in their own name as long as they have been honest with the insurance companies about ownership. BUT both should keep insurance details in the car because the Police Insurance database can only hold full details of one policy at a time (although there will be a marker indicating that another policy exists).

eg: BF and GF want to share a car but don't want to lose their hard-earned NCD due to the other's driving; or similarly with a parent and their teenage offspring.

pitkin2020

You sure?? I was always lead to believe you couldn't other than temporary insurance, even if you were able to then the insurer upon a claim would only pay out once, so both policy holders couldn't make a claim for say total loss.

Even so if the insurers shared info they would probably see 2 registered keepers as I suspect both would be claiming that title on the insurance

soup

If this is a cloned car that is being driven by someone who bought it unknowingly and innocently then the chances are high they have insured it.

You could pay £3.75 for an insurance search on your own reg number and it will show who your car reg number is insured with. Of course it will show up a policy for you but it may also show up another one with a different company. If so, you can then get onto them and explain this situation.

http://www.askmid.com/

pitkin2020

Nice one soup that would be worth the £3.75

soup

pitkin2020 wrote: »

Nice one soup that would be worth the £3.75

Yes, they do require you to state the car has been in an accident though, but in this case, I'd just make something up.

pitkin2020

soup wrote: »

Yes, they do require you to state the car has been in an accident though, but in this case, I'd just make something up.

Suspected car park bump.....that should cover it!! lol. Worth a shot anyway