I have just received a speeding ticket but its not my car, but someone using my plates on the same model car. At the time I was 100miles away from where the alleged offence took place. I have checked the camera pics and it clearly shows a car the same as mine with my plates. Fortunately I have video footage showing my car on the drive plus 3 adults to testify i was at home. Has anyone had this happen to them and how easy was it to get sorted?
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Should be simple.
In theory there will be two cars consistently in two places, which is enough to prove your point.
Appeal it and add the details.
Iâd report this to the police as well as they will likely put a marker on the car. Might get you stopped a bit more though! I have no direct experience of it to know if the camera team will report it as well, but the ticket shouldnât be hard to sort.
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I havenât, but this guy has.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MotoUK/comments/1d9sqkj/plate_got_cloned/
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Very handy thanksđ
Reported to the Met and DVLA now on to appeal. What a PITA.
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You probably donât need to swap your reg. This wont be a long term thing.
It would be a hassle too far for me - Iâd just wait until they get stopped and it gets swept up.
I have avoided all prospect of issues such as this by driving a minging motor in a colour so horrific that even my own family hold their noses before getting in it.
Youâre welcome.
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I had the plates nicked off a shitty old Astra estate in Oxford - petty villains are not discriminating peopleâŚ
Reported it - plod DGAF!
Eh? Itâs about the proof you need to stave off the vultures.
Report it and it goes in the database which means the cloned car pings all over the place.
This means it will get spotted and sorted. Enough of your ill informed guff.
This was 11 years ago - it happened - they looked genuinely bemused that Iâd bothered to show-up.
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People had black and white, and baths in the lounge ten years ago.
Just watch Interceptors. They are always chasing ANPR hits. Though, there are no such things as interceptors.
Yeah, but what colour was it?
Always choose the finish closest to âMetallic Vomitâ*. When the salesman gives you that look that says âNo fucker has ever asked for thatâ you know you have chosen well.
*more likely to be called âSaharan Sandâ or something. Because car makers are cunts.
Oh, and todayâs petty villains are all about peer status, innit. Or summat.
It was old and fucked and anonymous even then, itâd been easier if theyâd just nicked the whole fucking car TBH.
Took a couple of days to get replacement plates - no-one noticed.
Haha, many years ago, I had the plates nicked off my fiesta, which were put on a vehicle subsequently used to rob a petrol station.
First I knew was when plod turned up at 8:00am asking if I owned a blue fiesta (mine was white). They took one look at my hungover state and one plod turns to the other and says âwell, itâs obviously not himâ 
Had to give a statement and stuff, but never heard any more about it.
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Similar story, I was pulled over in the Birkenhead tunnel by two very pumped up armed police men who from behind their car doors had me out of the car, spread against it and searched, turned out my work gold plates had been used in an armed robbery in Leeds
Got sorted within 10 minutes but itâs not nice to have guns pointed at you so donât fancy a life of crime
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Yep, blues and twos in Ruislip a few years back. I was in uniform, got out smilingâŚ
âWould you like to see my licence officers ?â
âNo, youâre good. Have a nice day.â
I know what you meanâŚ
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