Find owner of Trade Plates?

306chris

I am an ex plater and it wont be long before they are caught. I was caught out at 86 on the M56 once.

Looking back at the three years I did, it's a mirracle that I am here to write this. The amount of racing and sily speeding and other stuff that I wont say on a pubic forum that used to go on was just insane.

For the OP even if you had the numbers it could have been any number of drivers. It should be logged as to who had which plates but it rarely hapens.

Apples2

You spent three years in prison for doing 86mph???:eek:

I watched a trade plater crash in front of me a couple of years ago, straight down the slip road, foot to the floor, flew right out to lane three so fast he couldn't line it up.
He drove straight into the central barrier, bounced back into lane three and wobbled himself back over to the hard shoulder.

Norman_Castle

Deleted_User wrote: »

Trade platers. One reason why I wouldn't buy a new car that had to be driven from another part of the country by a trade plater. You never know how they are going to treat it.

Years ago I was advised by someone who delivered new cars that an Astra would do 70 mph in second gear. Not sure he had managed this but I'm sure he tried.

Lum

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Years ago I was advised by someone who delivered new cars that an Astra would do 70 mph in second gear. Not sure he had managed this but I'm sure he tried.

Can confirm this for the Mk1 Astra, but the story is different, and dates back to the time my dad worked at Vauxhall.

Story goes that an executive from GM head office in the USA was visiting the UK, and for whatever reason, someone decided to give him one of the (then) new Astras to drive up from Heathrow to Ellesmere Port.

When he got here, he was complaining that the performance was terrible, could barely reach 70 and the engine sounded like it was about to die, and it was really hard to start moving off. Techs invesitgated and found the engine had been thrashed to within an inch of it's life on that journey.

Turns out the problem was no-one thought that giving an American executive a manual car might end badly, and he'd just pulled the gearstick down into D (actually 2nd) and driven up the M1/M6 like that!

OddballJamie

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Years ago I was advised by someone who delivered new cars that an Astra would do 70 mph in second gear. Not sure he had managed this but I'm sure he tried.

All depends on the gearing, I had a Xsara VTR that would do 65 in 2nd. I also know that the Saxo VTS was geared to reach around the same in 2nd giving it a slightly faster 0-60 than it's sister car the 106 GTi.

WTFH

harveybobbles wrote: »

Is there anyway to find the owner of a set of trade plates?

I'm not sure what you are planning to do when you find out who the owner is - if it's to send them a threatening letter, demand compensation or firebomb the place, then I can understand.
If it's because you want to report them to the police, then my suggestion would be to call the police and give them the number of the trade plate, then let them do their job.
You can report the offense, but it's not your job to arrest/prosecute/etc. That's what the cops & judges are for.

neilmcl

Deleted_User wrote: »

Trade platers. One reason why I wouldn't buy a new car that had to be driven from another part of the country by a trade plater. You never know how they are going to treat it.

Anything can happen to a new car once it leaves the factory until the moment you pick it up, none the wiser, at the dealership, even if it's transported.

LandyAndy

Lum wrote: »

Can confirm this for the Mk1 Astra, but the story is different, and dates back to the time my dad worked at Vauxhall.

Story goes that an executive from GM head office in the USA was visiting the UK, and for whatever reason, someone decided to give him one of the (then) new Astras to drive up from Heathrow to Ellesmere Port.

When he got here, he was complaining that the performance was terrible, could barely reach 70 and the engine sounded like it was about to die, and it was really hard to start moving off. Techs invesitgated and found the engine had been thrashed to within an inch of it's life on that journey.

Turns out the problem was no-one thought that giving an American executive a manual car might end badly, and he'd just pulled the gearstick down into D (actually 2nd) and driven up the M1/M6 like that!

If I had a penny for every version of this one I've heard, I'd have two and sixpence three farthings.

richard734

About 15 years ago, one of the execs at the company received a NIP for going past a fixed camera at 130mph. When he checked the times etc, it turned out that it was his brand new BMW company car being delivered to him at work by the garage/leasing company.

One hacked off exec, one returned/rejected £50k BMW, and a lesson learned for all of us.

A year or so later, when I was running the Hyundai Coupe club, one of our members watched his car being raced up and down the industrial estate where he worked, complete with handbrake turns and wheel spin starts, while it was being 'Test Driven' while in at the dealers for a service.

I now politely tell the garage that the car is black-box insured and checked real time by the insurance company. Don't know if it does any good, but I have seen mechanics notes with it highlighted and underlined.

[Deleted User]

neilmcl wrote: »

Anything can happen to a new car once it leaves the factory until the moment you pick it up, none the wiser, at the dealership, even if it's transported.

Just as well I only buy bangers then.

A new car delivered to a dealer by transporter with only a few delivery miles on the clock is much more likely to have not been thrashed on the motorway.