Why do people hide their numberplates?

Originally Posted by saoralba

Law's changed now mate..
Can only get new plates, if you have registration documnet and a V5 i think..
Now illegal to sell show plates in the UK..
(probily just end up getting them from abroad, as we do with visors..)

Not for us matey, thats an England and Wales law, the Scottish Parliment never passed it. If you go into Halfords or most UK chain's and they'll insist on your V5 etc, but thats only because its a company policy UK wide. If you go into a wee independant motor store you can get plates made up with anything you like on them.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by saoralba

Law's changed now mate..
Can only get new plates, if you have registration documnet and a V5 i think..
Now illegal to sell show plates in the UK..
(probily just end up getting them from abroad, as we do with visors..)

There's ways round these things

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Not for us matey, thats an England and Wales law, the Scottish Parliment never passed it. If you go into Halfords or most UK chain's and they'll insist on your V5 etc, but thats only because its a company policy UK wide. If you go into a wee independant motor store you can get plates made up with anything you like on them.

Ta for that useful bit of info. I work up Scotland reasonably regularly, so will bear this in mind if I'm ever in the market for dodgy plates.

[Dave20046]

You can get them anywhere no one seems to bother complying to the law I got one made up (no dodgy intent on my part) a few weeks ago no questions asked. Maybe it's because it was apparent I'm perfectly innocent and genuine

Originally Posted by Well Oiled

I had the reg. off my old SV cloned. Think about it - someone nicks an SV and (naturally) doesn't want to get pulled on it. Go to a nice handy site like SV650.org, wade through some nice pics until you find one that near enough matches and has the plate showing. Get your dodgy mate to make up said plate and you're away.

First thing I knew was when the I was contacted by the Police somewhere I'd never ridden my bike (somewhere in Somerset IIRC) about some offences they'd logged. I'm surprised they believed me so readily and I didn't have to go out of my way to prove that I hadn't been there at the time.

So my advice would be to always blank out your plate on any pics you post.

It might just be a dominating fact that she was a minority and didn't speak very good english,.

Cheers Keith

Funny how they treat ppl different. I was watching a show last night on Danish telly, about cloning of vehicles. (off course, with focus on cars). A woman in Britain had her car cloned, and recieved several parking tickets from places she'd never been. She asked for photos as she continued to recieve tickets from the same places, and concluded somebody had cloned her car. She contacted the police, but got the response: It's not directly illegal.
Ultimately they showed up at her house claiming their payment. She called the police, who when arrived, agreed that she should indeed pay up, although she presented them with several corresponding letters and complaints she had sent to the authorities.

I didn't see the end of it, but she surely didn't go easy through it.

Oh, and by the way, she was a minority, not speaking english very good .