Markers on car

paddedjohn

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Maybe you've bought a car used previously by one of my acquittances in the pharmaceutical delivery business. Every few months they require new transport for some odd reason. It isn't an older focus is it?

First line from the OP................

Ive owned my car 6 years from new.

worried_jim

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Maybe you've bought a car used previously by one of my acquittances in the pharmaceutical delivery business. Every few months they require new transport for some odd reason. It isn't an older focus is it?

paddedjohn wrote: »

First line from the OP................

Ive owned my car 6 years from new.

I am guessing irony. Sniff.

pogofish

sharjay99 wrote: »

Today it was about 4pm, admittedly the incident outside my front door could of been as it was about 10.30pm. Im in no way a girl racer, I stick to speed limits, being 32 and normally having a child in the car dictates I should drive carefully....
Areas not always the nicest but in no way a contender for police!camera!action!

Has there been any serious crime in your area recently?

A few years back, the combination of a very unpleasant crime and a couple of dealers setting-up shop in my street did seem that I was getting stopped/followed/checked-out a lot more often and many neighbours reported the same.

It all settled down again after the dealers and their associates were busted. Went from being stopped maybe twenty-thirty times in the year this went on, to being stopped twice in the ten years since.

sharjay99

Car isnt modified in the slightest. few not to pleasant activities in the area including a crystal meth factory being busted and a couple of murders so highly likely it could be something like that although no car crime I know of. The first time they followed me to my front door and got out I didnt think they had time to clock my number plate as they were pulling out onto the road as I went past so maybe it was just down to the type of car, then when they saw my son jump out and say hello they realised.

No one else drives it, gonna see if it happens anymore. they havent physically put the blues on and pulled me over yet, didnt know if that was down to not having any reason (do they still need a good reason?)

One of the downsides to living in an area that used to be nice til they started closing down crack dens in the next postcode and shipping them all in near me...

sharjay99

worried_jim wrote: »

I am guessing irony. Sniff.

Not one of your 'aquintances' making you sniff is it lol

McKneff

Youve never been in any trouble.

Well madam, it's high time you were:D

anotherbaldrick

sharjay99 wrote: »

One of the downsides to living in an area that used to be nice til they started closing down crack dens in the next postcode and shipping them all in near me...

Sounds like having the fuzz as company would be quite comforting

shortdog

I had the same problem a couple of years ago, caused, I think, by being stopped for a random check, and the address the car was registered to and the address on my licence not matching, due to a very recent house move - obviously one department at the DVLA working quicker than the other. The police were really suspicious for some reason - I'm sure it can't have been the first time it happened, but they let me go on my way due to my son screaming in the back of the car.
For months afterwards I was followed, pulled for the slightest thing (your brake lights are out - Oh, hang on, they're working now, maybe a loose connection, etc). One day, the local policeman knocked on the door - he'd pulled up behind my car with his camera on, and it had flashed something up, so he came in, checked all my docs, and had the marker removed.
It was a bit lonely for a while, though, not having the police follow me all over, I'd felt like I was famous and had bodyguards!
At the time, I had owned the car for 18 months, my friend had it before me for 3 years, and her in-laws had it from new!

brat

shortdog wrote: »

I had the same problem a couple of years ago, caused, I think, by being stopped for a random check, and the address the car was registered to and the address on my licence not matching, due to a very recent house move - obviously one department at the DVLA working quicker than the other. The police were really suspicious for some reason - I'm sure it can't have been the first time it happened, but they let me go on my way due to my son screaming in the back of the car.
For months afterwards I was followed, pulled for the slightest thing (your brake lights are out - Oh, hang on, they're working now, maybe a loose connection, etc). One day, the local policeman knocked on the door - he'd pulled up behind my car with his camera on, and it had flashed something up, so he came in, checked all my docs, and had the marker removed.
It was a bit lonely for a while, though, not having the police follow me all over, I'd felt like I was famous and had bodyguards!
At the time, I had owned the car for 18 months, my friend had it before me for 3 years, and her in-laws had it from new!

The marker would have been for something else. It won't have anything to do with the V5 and licence addresses not matching.

oldtoolie

Reading the OP, it seems that on one occasion a policeman said hello to him. I wouldn't worry about it.