I'm famous...
- Thread starter mmm-five
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The car for sale on Gumtree is not the same car captured on CCTV. The Gumtree photograph is of an ///M, the illegal right turn was made by a 3 litre.
Either the Gumtree advert is fraudulent and for a non-existent car with the picture taken from one of mmm-five's on line photographs (perhaps his own recent for sale advertisement), or there are now two other cars in London with mmm-five's registration number.
Maybe its contagious! Before you know all of the Z4 coupes in London will have that plate...I'd better go and check mine!
Either the Gumtree advert is fraudulent and for a non-existent car with the picture taken from one of mmm-five's on line photographs (perhaps his own recent for sale advertisement), or there are now two other cars in London with mmm-five's registration number.
Maybe its contagious! Before you know all of the Z4 coupes in London will have that plate...I'd better go and check mine!
Definitely a case of needing to obscure our plates on online pics. I've not often bothered before but now thinking that might have been a bit rash. Although there are only about 10 in my colour, so a limited audience for cloning...
Maybe the Z4 forum stickers have a real use, proving our car is ours or not!
Maybe the Z4 forum stickers have a real use, proving our car is ours or not!
Stuart Truman said:
TBH I doubt his plate was cloned from here. I don't recall seeing any pics of the car in question except for the sale thread many moons ago. I'm guessing the villians use Autotrader and the like more as it's easy just like looking in a number plate catalogue book.
Also your plate is visible to anyone who see the car on the road so there really isn't anything you can do.
I have heard alhthough I'm not sure how true it is but private plates are less likely to be cloned.
They can clone the personalised plates from my profile pic as much as they want! They're long gone back to the previous owner 
Liverpool
The Gumtree one has been reported, but it's the same one that was on Gumtree 2 years ago when I first considered selling the car, and when it had half the miles on it that it does now!
The reg could have been spotted anywhere...Nurburgring webcams, at the station/airport car park, on my website, on here, or just parked up at the hotel in Brentford where it currently sits for 2-3 days at a time (which is my best guess).
It's definitely my car in the photo, and I can tell where & when the photo was taken. In fact I've still got the originals here.
This is from 2010:
This is from 2011:
Photo's taken on different sides of the drive, and the newer ones are a bit further down the drive. Car is also cleaner
The reg could have been spotted anywhere...Nurburgring webcams, at the station/airport car park, on my website, on here, or just parked up at the hotel in Brentford where it currently sits for 2-3 days at a time (which is my best guess).
It's definitely my car in the photo, and I can tell where & when the photo was taken. In fact I've still got the originals here.
This is from 2010:
This is from 2011:
Photo's taken on different sides of the drive, and the newer ones are a bit further down the drive. Car is also cleaner
Doubt it.Taz x said:
Although you'd think there was obviously something they 'could' do if they so wished, and that would be to issue me with a new age-related registration and flag the other one.
That way it would seen by any police vehicle with an ANPR camera in it, or by the 'ring of CCTV' around London that's supposed to be able to track terrorist vehicles
B@ll@cks... 2 points to kick back
1. State this response in not acceptable and demand this is referred to the branch manager on the following grounds
- They have stated 'there is nothing in their records to suggest another vehicle is using the same plates' - there is, you've just provided the evidence independently given by a government agency
- 'there is nothing they can do' - Tell them that they as a government dept have a responsibility to take every possible action to combat this crime, reissuing number plates 2u will automatically ping the false plates on the APNR systems, thereby proactively combating crime. Give the duty of care speech to act in the public interest & if they don't do this basic thing you're writing to watchdog, the newspapers & your local MP to explain how inept & unhelpful the DVLA are & how through a simple act a problem could be solved
Go give em a big kick up the @rse
1. State this response in not acceptable and demand this is referred to the branch manager on the following grounds
- They have stated 'there is nothing in their records to suggest another vehicle is using the same plates' - there is, you've just provided the evidence independently given by a government agency
- 'there is nothing they can do' - Tell them that they as a government dept have a responsibility to take every possible action to combat this crime, reissuing number plates 2u will automatically ping the false plates on the APNR systems, thereby proactively combating crime. Give the duty of care speech to act in the public interest & if they don't do this basic thing you're writing to watchdog, the newspapers & your local MP to explain how inept & unhelpful the DVLA are & how through a simple act a problem could be solved
Go give em a big kick up the @rse
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