Should I be worried?

Joe_Horner

Hermione_Granger wrote: »

Even doing that still wouldn't be proof.
What would stop me doing a modification to my car and taking a date& timed stamp photo then simply removing the modification.

If I received a nip, I would then simply refit the modification and claim that as it wasn't visible in the photo, it wasn't my car.

You make the modification something unremovable. A sharp blow with a lump hammer, for example.

Unfortunately, any photo data can be altered, so to be safe you'd need something more official. A photo from a speed camera should be proof.

So, OP, to be on the safe side:

put a distinctive dent in your bootlid and drive past your nearest GATSO at speed limit +20. :money:

arcon5

What did he ask

jimmy_cricket

arcon5 wrote: »

What did he ask

He asked how much it was. Nothing else at all. Then took the picture of the number plate.

konark

jimmy_cricket wrote: »

I've some for sale notes in my car windows.

jimmy_cricket wrote: »

He asked how much it was. Nothing else at all. Then took the picture of the number plate.

Didn't bother putting the price then?

stvn1

There's a lot of strange people about. It could simply be that you met one of them.

jimmy_cricket

konark wrote: »

Didn't bother putting the price then?

Yep it was on the window advert...

jimmy_cricket

stvn1 wrote: »

There's a lot of strange people about. It could simply be that you met one of them.

Could be. He clearly wasn't interested in buying the car imho. He has never called for further information.

Just weirded me out tbh

jimjames

stvn1 wrote: »

There's a lot of strange people about. It could simply be that you met one of them.

I doubt it. If I saw a car I was interested in that was for sale and was interested I'd ask the owner. I'd also want the reg to do an MOT check, far easier to get a photo than trying to write down. Maybe they've then done the check and realised it's not worth it.

Nothing strange at all about the behaviour described.

jimmy_cricket

jimjames wrote: »

I doubt it. If I saw a car I was interested in that was for sale and was interested I'd ask the owner. I'd also want the reg to do an MOT check, far easier to get a photo than trying to write down. Maybe they've then done the check and realised it's not worth it.

Nothing strange at all about the behaviour described.

I find not wanting to know anything about the car to be strange. I would want to know about, previous owners, accident damage, why is it for sale, when is service due, mot, what work has been done recently, does everything work.
You might not get truthful answers from some people but at least I would ask.
Mot check would not throw anything up. It has saled through every one.

Nagme

He may try to clone your number plate.

This happened to me a few years ago, I started receiving congestion charge letters etc. We concluded the number plate was possibly cloned when it was on auto trader a few months previously as I'd not long had the car.

All got sorted in the end, I forwarded photos of my car and there were luckily a few differences between the two cars. Police were very helpful.