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My front number plate was stolen...I've notified the police and got a crime reference number, but I'm not clear whether I have to tell the DVLA as well. (I can see a form to tell them if I've had a trade plate stolen, but that's all I can find. The internet seems undecided.....).
Anyone know for sure?
Ta.
I just notified the police and never heard anything again when this happened to me.
As above I just let the police know, just incase it got used in a ram raid or something.....
Report it to the police and get a crime reference number. They will put a marker on the DVLA computer and although you will most likely get all sorts of enquiries about how your car was involved in a ram raid/speeding or even simply attracting congestion charges, you need that history and reference number to defend yourself.
We had friends who had this. The plate was used twice to steal petrol. They had the hassle of being pulled by police a couple of times.
It was only police they notified.
Makes you realise how easy it is to "borrow" someone's reg.
I had some 'new' plates stolen. I'd had some made up at a local Halfords, and they'd made a mistake and had re-made them. The others were just binned and not destroyed. Next thing I knew I had a knock on the door from the cops as 'my plates' had been used in a robbery.
I got hard stopped on the M62 by armed cops in a loaner BMW that had the wrong plate (a B where there should have been an N) It was fun*
* not fun.
For a while I thought about buying two identical cars (for me and the OH) and just putting the same plates on them. Saves on tax/insurance etc. but if I ever got stopped everything would look genuine. Would have to keep at least one of them in a garage tho
Would have to keep at least one of them in a garage tho
So cheaper to share one.
Thanks all.
Seems odd that they only stole the front one.
For a while I thought about buying two identical cars (for me and the OH) and just putting the same plates on them. Saves on tax/insurance etc.
I know of at least two tractors and several Landies in Aberdeenshire doing this.
Call or email DVLA and give them the crime reference number.
You can't do more than that.
If you email, be sure to ask for - and get - confirmation of receipt.
Yeah, contact dvla. I had my car plates cloned before and the cloned car racked up stacks of speeding offences and parking tickets. One call to DVLA fixed it. No bank robberies or anything like that though.
For a while I thought about buying two identical cars (for me and the OH) and just putting the same plates on them. Saves on tax/insurance etc. but if I ever got stopped everything would look genuine. Would have to keep at least one of them in a garage tho
I knew someone once who had a DB5 and reckoned if he had a second one the same colour he could keep it at the other house without his wife noticing. Obviously he was quite wealthy…
The duplicate plates on different cars has been done.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-public-transport-boss-gordon-24762417
Seem to recall the police became involved as it was likely only one car was insured etc
Bit embarrassing as his son was a cop
I can see a form to tell them if I’ve had a trade plate stolen, but that’s all I can find.
That’s because trade plates cover the owner for insurance. But not for an out of date MOT. It’s also why displaying both plates is required, because otherwise two people could be using them in two different cars at the same time.
When I was using them, I usually stuck both in the edge of the windscreen, because many vehicles had no real means to display them in the back.