exdulwicher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Reg plates are linked to the brand of car > (including colour) so I guess once you have > reported to police you shouldn?t have any > penalties unless yours plates will be used on the > same type of car, which is very unlikely. > > Thieves aren't entirely dumb - they're normally > stolen to order for exactly the same type of car. > That way any random roadside ANPR check comes back > (on the face of it) entirely legit. If you put the > plates from a blue Discovery onto a silver > Transit, it'll get picked up very quickly - if you > put them on another blue Discovery, chances are > you'll get away with quite a lot. > > This has been reported to the police and insurance > company, but we?re obviously expecting a whole > load of admin off the back of this (speeding > tickets etc?) > > Put a tracker on your car. It'll save a load of > admin if you have something reporting in to your > mobile phone and you can prove where it was at any > given time. Also, take any photos of anything > unique - custom alloys, any > dents/scratches/go-faster stripes/windscreen > stickers etc - anything that would make your car > stand out even slightly from another one of the > same make / model. If you get a speeding ticket > and you can easily show that your car has a > sticker in the rear window and the culprit car > doesn't, that's a dead giveaway. > > A friend had her plates cloned a long time ago. > Reported it and then she got pulled over by the > police about 8 times in the following 3 months. > They never managed to pull over the cloned car > though... Absolutely identical make, model and > colour. Yes - the idea is to ?clone? the same make/ model and colour car. We had a dealership marking on one of the number plates which we had luckily noticed and had a photo of and provided to the police (who weren?t that interested) and to TFL etc for congestion charges etc which came in as the number plate links back to the registered keeper per DVLA. Good luck