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Blanking out number plates?BenzBoy
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Aug 14, 2004 20:21:14 GMT
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Reading a comment on another thread about blanking number plates out got me thinking.... is this purely for security reasons? I know it seems a bit of a dumb question but I've never been entirely sure how people can use licence plate info to commit crime.  Is it because the scum of this world would get a licence plate of a car they like the look of and trace where it lived to steal it? Or is there more to it? |
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Aug 14, 2004 20:35:53 GMT
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pretty much my car is very well known anyway so theres no point in me blanking mine  |
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Aug 14, 2004 20:36:20 GMT
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I guess that if someone wanted a particular car, then they'd go to great lengths to steal the car, regardless of the cars presences on the web or the street. But I see what you're saying. Perhaps its more to do with fraud and reproducing number plates on similar models that may not have the correct documentation. But then again I can't see anyone really wanting to nick my cars....  |
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Aug 14, 2004 20:37:00 GMT
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On your side of the pond I suppose it's possible but I think there's another reason as well. Insurance people may see the the vehicles and gain knowledge of any mods. Then they check the policy to see if they've been declared.  |
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Aug 14, 2004 23:20:16 GMT
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Never really understood why people do this. TRacing a car via the number plate is very difficult and it would be difficult for most crims to do. Nobody is likely to duplicate you car using another and the chances of insurance companies stumbling accross you car is incredibly small. I can't really see a good reason for doing it!
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1962 Datsun Bluebird Estate - 1971 Datsun 510 SSS - 1976 Datsun 710 SSS - 1981 Dodge van - 1985 Nissan Cherry Europe GTi - 1988 Nissan Prairie - 1990 Hyundai Pony Pickup - 1992 Mazda MX5
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Aug 14, 2004 23:42:11 GMT
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I like that yellow KPB110 Sunny. Very waspish.
Asides from the Mazda RX series, NSU RO80 and Citroen GS Birotor did anyone else release production Wankel Rotory lumps?
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Aug 14, 2004 23:45:29 GMT
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balls. ignore that. wrong thread.......
I think I'd better call it a night.
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Aug 15, 2004 11:09:02 GMT
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It's even harder to replicate a modified classic. I mean, with a standard modern car, it'd be easy to find an identical model, but take in the case of my car, would they really have the patience, time and money to kit out an Imp in the same wheels, rollcage, seats, and bodywork mods as mine, just to commit a crime in it, when surely a less unique, and far easier to find, modern car would be a hundred times easier to kit out in an identical style than any of our modified classics. Although yes I think insurance might get miffed if they saw your car juced up beyond recognition online, but are insurance company personnel really going to sign up to Retro Rides, and suddenly say "Hold on, we insure that Datsun, and those wheels aren't totally standard!  " and follow it up? For a start I doubt insurance firms know their customers cars that well. |
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Blanking out number plates?BenzBoy
@benzboy
Club Retro Rides Member 7
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Aug 15, 2004 21:59:09 GMT
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Thanks for the replies - I suppose there isn't much difference between a crim spotting your plate on the net and them spotting it in the multi-storey car park - they can use the info either way. If it's just to "clone" a car, the worst that could happen is that you'd get the plod sending you letters and a bit of confusion.
I've been told of gangs (from Eastern Europe apparently) that go around looking for old Mercs to steal and ship over to Africa for parts - I don't suppose that them having licence plate details would make it any easier for them!
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" and follow it up? For a start I doubt insurance firms know their customers cars that well.