Should we hide our number plate when posting pics online?

Hedgehog99

Conceal it on all social media pictures etc and if your house is for sale (although ideally move it so it isn't even in the photo), but leave it displayed if selling the car so that potential buyers can do the checks they want.

takman

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

You can check the MoT history for free on the Gov't's website:

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

Not if you can't see the registration number.

The poster was saying you could still check these things on Autotrader when the reg is hidden.

Richard53

Hedgehog99 wrote: »

Conceal it on all social media pictures etc and if your house is for sale (although ideally move it so it isn't even in the photo), but leave it displayed if selling the car so that potential buyers can do the checks they want.

This is what I do. Any post of the car in a forum for any reason, I will probably obscure the plate, although I am not religious about it. But selling a car, I always show the plate. There is no reason not to. It's going to belong to someone else soon (you hope) so cloning etc is not an issue.


An obscured plate wouldn't put me off buying a car, but the first question I would ask the seller is what the reg number is. Ads that save me this step are probable marginally more attractive.

AdrianC

Richard53 wrote: »

Any post of the car in a forum for any reason, I will probably obscure the plate, although I am not religious about it.

I always chuckle when people post a big wodge of photos up, carefully obscured, with the reg perfectly visible in just one of them.

Especially when their user name is their vanity registration...

Iceweasel

What is the difference between someone seeing a number plate on a forum pic as opposed to simply seeing your car parked in the street?

Surely if some scrote wants to clone say a 2015 silver Audi all they have to do is spend 10 minutes or less in Tesco's car park and they'll see one.

Richard53

Iceweasel wrote: »

What is the difference between someone seeing a number plate on a forum pic as opposed to simply seeing your car parked in the street?

Surely if some scrote wants to clone say a 2015 silver Audi all they have to do is spend 10 minutes or less in Tesco's car park and they'll see one.

I'm no expert, but I suspect it is for reasons of a) quantity and b) geography.


a) You want to clone a silver 2015 Audi - schlep all the way to Tesco and sit in the rain to see perhaps one example, or sit at home browsing ebay and Autotrader and see ten or twenty that would fit the bill?


b) The car in your local Tesco is just that, local. Far better to use the number of a car 400 miles away as the chances of the rightful owner or police seeing the car are vastly reduced.