Cloned car

give_them_FA

rdr wrote: »

I would put a distinctive sticker close to each number plate, take pictures and post them on an online photo site. This would give you a firm date for the photos, and give an easier way of showing that it is not your car getting the tickets.

I doubt that would be accepted as evidence. By definition, a sticker can be un-stuck easily, so saying "my car's got this sticker" wouldn't be very convincing... all it would show is a photo with a sticker on it.. which could then have been removed.

Or have I misunderstood?

teenyweeny53

Think rdr is saying get a picture with a date on it - wont help me with the existing fines still have to fight my corner, but it may help with future fines which i'm expecting until police take this car off the road.

The_Slithy_Tove

Do you really have no evidence that you weren't in London on any of the occasions? Considering the distance, you would only have to show you were in Devon at any point 3 hours either side of the offence to demonstrate you couldn't be in 2 places at once. And once you've won on one of them, there is a stronger case for obvious cloning.

Expensive option: back your car into a lamp-post, so any future tickets would be accompanied by a photo of a car without a big dent in the back :D

rdr

teenyweeny53 wrote: »

Think rdr is saying get a picture with a date on it - wont help me with the existing fines still have to fight my corner, but it may help with future fines which i'm expecting until police take this car off the road.

That's what I mean, TW can say "after I became aware that my car had been cloned I put these stickers on, I took a photo and posted on this site -- check the date, these stickers are still on my car -- look at it. Those photos on the tickets do not show the stickers, that supports my statement that it is not my car in the photos." Not cast iron but helpful.

My phone and the car gps will record tracks, if you start saving these it will also help with future tickets, see if you have any saved to give you an alibi for the past tickets.

give_them_FA

teenyweeny53 wrote: »

Think rdr is saying get a picture with a date on it - wont help me with the existing fines still have to fight my corner, but it may help with future fines which i'm expecting until police take this car off the road.

What I am trying to say T.W. is that it does not prove anything at all and wouldn't be accepted as evidence. You could stick magnetic L-plates on, photograph it, and say "Look my car has L-plates, the cloned one doesn't" but as you can take them off again just as quickly- what will it prove?

Put something permanent like a big dent in it as Slithy Tove suggests, that would be convincing, but hardly what you want to do, I think...

NMCAlan

Orford wrote: »

Your website appears to be a commercial operation which charges for helping people whose vehicles are cloned, yet specifically excludes assisting with PCN's incurred prior to signing up.

Are you offering to help the OP free of charge? If so why not do it on this forum?

Otherwise you are not abiding by MSE's own forum rules, ie no touting for business

First of all Orford, you are right, my website is a commercial operation. If a driver does not want to face the potential nightmare that the OP faces as a victim of car cloning (or one of few other similar scenario's) they can sign up to NotMyCar on an annual basis (and many have). Should they subsequently fall victim, they can report it to us, and receive a face to face, evidence gathering service, carried out by highly qualified investigators.

Clearly our business cannot offer those services to all current victims of car cloning, as our investigative services would cost more than than paying the PCN's.

I don't spend much, if any, time on Forums normally, but when I became aware of this thread I felt that I could offer assistance, free of charge, to help the OP.

I have iterated that free offer to the OP by direct messaging, and so far have not received a response. That is their choice and I respect that. The offer remains.

I'm not trying to break any 'forum rules', in fact I have been trying desparately hard to avoid just that. However I'm afraid I am not in a position to offer the same service by posting 'advice' on this thread.

Sorry if I have offended anyone, or 'broken any rules', I'm beginning to wish I had never responded in the first place.

teenyweeny53

I dont want any-one to be offended i'm personally knocked out by the all the responses,this is the first time i've ever been on any forum website and to think people would take the time to try to help - with what is somebody else problem is heartening,am awaiting responses from issuing authorities after sending appeals and photos,havent received any more parking fines for a few days who knows the police may have caught them(i live in hope)so thanks once again for everyones help and comments.I'll keep you posted and hope i can be of some help to someone in the future.