THEREALVRT
Drag Racing Champion
- Location
- The great white north
- Car(s)
- Golf R
If you can figure out where I live come on over to wash my car and have a drink afterwards.
You live in Rhode Island and your birthday is in august. creepy huh!!!
If you can figure out where I live come on over to wash my car and have a drink afterwards.
I'm not sure what its like over the pond, but in the UK lots of stolen cars have their plates changed to cloned ones after they've been stolen.
I've witnessed this first hand when my mums Mk4 was taken...
Let's say the thief has stolen a car of Type XYZ.
He/she wants to hide it's a stolen car by using a number/license plate that belongs to a car of the same type. Idea being, if the Police run the plate through their computer, it won't come back as stolen as the actual car the plate belongs to hasn't been stolen and the stored type/colour of car matches the vehicle on the road, the Police are none the wiser.
To find a valid set of fake number plates, he/she can easily go onto a forum, Instagram or an auction website, search for cars of Type XYZ in the same colour, and copy/reproduce the number plates.
For sure people see your plate on a daily basis but by hiding them online makes it somewhat more difficult.
A plate is attached to a VIN in the UK as it is here, no? Those are unique, and nobody posts picture of their VIN plates.I'm not sure what its like over the pond, but in the UK lots of stolen cars have their plates changed to cloned ones after they've been stolen.
I've witnessed this first hand when my mums Mk4 was taken...
Let's say the thief has stolen a car of Type XYZ.
He/she wants to hide it's a stolen car by using a number/license plate that belongs to a car of the same type. Idea being, if the Police run the plate through their computer, it won't come back as stolen as the actual car the plate belongs to hasn't been stolen and the stored type/colour of car matches the vehicle on the road, the Police are none the wiser.
To find a valid set of fake number plates, he/she can easily go onto a forum, Instagram or an auction website, search for cars of Type XYZ in the same colour, and copy/reproduce the number plates.
For sure people see your plate on a daily basis but by hiding them online makes it somewhat more difficult.
A plate is attached to a VIN in the UK as it is here, no? Those are unique, and nobody posts picture of their VIN plates.
At least at this moment, Anchorage is warmer than most of the Lower 48.
Fyi, whenever a plate is "run", the user and plate are documented in a database.If you can figure out where I live come on over to wash my car and have a drink afterwards.
All the po-po know where to go for drinks.Fyi, whenever a plate is "run", the user and plate are documented in a database.
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Correct. I feel that most cops wont go far enough to search the vin if the plates match the description of the vehicle
This was in respect to tracking stolen vehicles, not speed camerasThe VIN is irrelevant if caught by an ANPR or speed camera as that sends the fine to the owner through the post and will be in the post before the driver gets home. Cloning cars has been around for decades and there are thousands on our roads driving without insurance as they rely the ANPR camera to link them with the legitimate vehicle. It is up to the owner to then prove they did not commit the crime or were not in that area at the time.
Correct. I feel that most cops wont go far enough to search the vin if the plates match the description of the vehicle
Repo men always have to check vins, it's common for their "clients" to swap plates with a similar or identical type of vehicle.Correct. I feel that most cops wont go far enough to search the vin if the plates match the description of the vehicle
For someone keeping their MK7 oem stock, there is no real concern to posting your license plate, except for the occasional pesky axe murderer or ID thief, who may have their ways of finding victims via license plates. There could be programs and ways available on the Dark Web that can do things most of us do not dream of. One would assume many axe murderers etc will hang out on the Dark Web.
However, people who do warranty-voiding mods will want to blur their plates. Otherwise, you're announcing to VW Dealers: "Hi there! I have mods that void my warranty. If I bring my car in for warranty service, you will know me by my license plate I posted on a public forum."
Your next question or comment will be something like: "Oh, c'mon, VW dealers are too busy to watch forums." To that, I'd say, you are right, some % of time. But what %? It is a FACT that VW dealers HAVE used forum info to avoid honoring a warranty. Search for it. Point is, why take the chance, unless you are certain you will never mod? And, you know...axe murderers. Maybe you pack a pistola, but then you'd have to shoot everyone you see carrying an axe, before they got within swinging distance. There could be some legal issues arising from that, unless you ran away, and were lucky. Do you feel lucky?
Disclaimer: The above post was written to be helpful, but also because I was bored at work again. Now I'm not bored !!