Some Fool Stole My Plates

[no1_jazz]

yup some fool low life mofuc*er took my plates totally standard plates both of which were a lil cracked stupid fools.


What to do apart from doing what i already have done

call the police get my crime ref number and now they document it as a dorment investeagation, which means a investigation which stays incomplete and im 200miles away from home and i do not have my v5 with me so im stuck without a car untill i get new1's .

i have fully comp but is it worh asking the insurance company ?

all help much appreciated
Jazz

[stonesie]

Get the Police informed ASAP!!!!

Your plates are probably now adorning some sorry turd doing "drive off's" at local petrol stations

[hazd31]

if youve got a refrence number, just drive it home? or have it towed? surely you have a reason so the police cannot fine you ect.

[M3Jim]

Sounds like someone is going to make a clone of your car!! As long as you've told the police, not much else you can do I don't think.

[no1_jazz]

Get the Police informed ASAP!!!!

Your plates are probably now adorning some sorry turd doing "drive off's" at local petrol stations

Police already knwo done that and youre rite they are prob doing stupidness like that.

if youve got a refrence number, just drive it home? or have it towed? surely you have a reason so the police cannot fine you ect

having ti towed 145miles back home is going to cost a fortune, im not sure if it is safe to drive it home with hand written on paper stuck on the car or near the windscreen even tho i have a crime number.

jazz

[Z3I]

Just write it on cardboard, nice and neat and drive it home within the speed limits. Keep your crime ref handy if you get pulled.

[Gortour]

And wait for the speeding and parking tickets arriving on the doorstep...

[Jon_Bmw]

Criminals are so dumb, why they don't just get the plates made up I don't know. That way you(and the police) wouldn't know the car was cloned already.

I know you are supposed to have your v5 and identity to get plates, but there are loads of places you can get them without.

Likewise, just drive home and if you get tugged say that because of the Jan 2005 regulation(that makes it difficult for ordinary members of the public to get replacement plates, but no harder for dogey people to get plates) you could not get any made up as you don't have the v5 and the only way of getting it was to drive home.

Don't speak to your insurance company IMO, as they'll probably think you want to claim for a set of numbers plates and write it down as an accident!

[Grrrmachine]

Without wishing to blast the locals where I live, a few Europeaners twigged to the ANPR cameras set up around docks like Harwich and Dover, which flagged up untaxed and uninsured motors to the rozzers waiting by the port gate. The simple way to bypass them was to lift the plates off something else in a carpark, drive to the dock car park, then sling the plates and check into the ferry as normal. Dunno whether you're near a port, but that was a fairly common crime down in the South-East...

[hazd31]

you can get plates made on ebay for less than a tenner! so why steal them?

i would drive it unless the police have told you not to your not doing anything wrong

[fishingtourer]

make some clear cardboard plates as stated above and drive it home fook paying for recovery m8ty you have a reason for using cardboard plates,

[no1_jazz]

lol

make some clear cardboard plates as stated above and drive it home fook paying for recovery m8ty you have a reason for using cardboard plates,

yeah they are going to cost me 8pounds each from halfords... a long drive down the m1 with carbord plates lol soudns funny but dont knw how safe that will be lol

[polsta]

stop being paranoid man, you got your crime ref, just go for it...its not unsafe is it as in terms of not being road worthy

IF you get pulled over, just explain what happned and that you cant buy plates without a v5 which is at home, show your crime ref, and off you go, all you have to say is...i could hardly leave my car miles from home

you always see caravans and trailors with cardboard number plates on

if your that worried...go on ebay for number plate sellers, put nearest 1st...and see if theres anyone close, pop round and pick em up

[TheHeap]

Why would you even contemplate telling the insurance for £25. worth of plates?

[Kos]

i'm sure with a photo copy or fax of the V5, some ID and the crime ref no you can have number plates made

@ grrrmachine

why would foriegners worry about ANPR cameras, they wouldnt be on the UK's data base because they are not UK registered or have totly missunderstood what yu are on about

surely using nicked plates in a dock/port is the most unwise thing you could do

[mrLEE30]

ha ha ha, the sensible person says await parking tickets, speeding tickets, calls from BP/Shell/Esso....the devil says get out and create some speeding/parking tickets....it wasn't me Gov'nr!!

[spp320i]

People nick plates because it's harder to get fakes made up nowadays. And even if you can get them on ebay - you're then making a paper trail so it's easier to get found out - think like a crook and its pretty simple!

You'll undoubtedly get some "enquiries" about petrol stations, and probably a few tickets too - the good news is that if you're a long way from home where they've been stolen, then it'll hopefully just be some locals - so when you're home and you get some calls about petrol theft 200 miles away, it shouldn't cause you too much hassle!

You can drive it down the motorway on cardboard plates, but not legally! Any half decent copper (is there such a thing...?) won't get too arsey if they pull you and you explain, and give them your crime ref. But you are taking the risk of some jobsworth deciding to give you a fine and a telling off ....

I'd drive it back though.

[hazd31]

surely crime ref not with car reg and details of what has happend will be enough for a decent motor factors to print you up some plates?

[spp320i]

surely crime ref not with car reg and details of what has happend will be enough for a decent motor factors to print you up some plates?

its gotta be worth a try but I expect a lot of these places will follow the law "to the letter" so will have to see original paperwork. Copies can be forged, and I guess they risk getting in the sh!t if they break the rules.

[dazleeds]

B&Q or similar

stick on lettering/numbers etc have seen them many times if your really bothered make a plate that looks genuine and run home lol

but personaly i would use the cardboard plate approach and get the car home

[beemerbird]

ha ha ha, the sensible person says await parking tickets, speeding tickets, calls from BP/Shell/Esso....the devil says get out and create some speeding/parking tickets....it wasn't me Gov'nr!!

My plates were stolen recently, too, and the community police man who called round and spoke to my partner (I was out) said that it looked like a way to get out of fines and tickets for a while

[fuzzy]

you dont need your v5 to buy new plates anymore . expect a lot of speeding/parking tickets and/or knocks on the door from the serious crime squad soon.

[rubber_duck89]

I pity the fool ......who stole your plates.....

[beemerbird]

you dont need your v5 to buy new plates anymore . expect a lot of speeding/parking tickets and/or knocks on the door from the serious crime squad soon.

I needed to take my V5 and photo ID to get mine

I called and checked in the plate shop before - hand.

[fuzzy]

i bought plates at halfords with no id required other than pointing to my car in the car park.

[beemerbird]

i bought plates at halfords with no id required.

How recently, Fuzzy? I phoned Halfords as well as the guy I went to and they wanted car and personal ID.

Mine were nicked about a month or less ago.

[fuzzy]

it was less than a year ago.

[beemerbird]

it was less than a year ago.

Sounds about right - I think things have tightened up with ID recently.

Could the OP not get his car to the nearest BMW garage who would verify the licence plate number through the VIN, show something with an address / whatever on it and get it done that way?

[fuzzy]

i remember you needed id a couple of years ago then they stopped it.
just write the number on some board and tape them on until you get home. with a crime number you should be safe enough if you got stopped.

[Martinaston]

jazz, i take it you filled the tank up before the 200 mile journey home and then put the plates back in the boot.

[barrymate]

having ti towed 145miles back home is going to cost a fortune, im not sure if it is safe to drive it home with hand written on paper stuck on the car or near the windscreen even tho i have a crime number.

jazz [/quote]

just drive it least your get away with the speed cameras

[Kos]

i'll come and recover your car for you

£200

or you could get the log book mailed to you !

as i said with the crime ref no, some id and photocopy/fax of the logbook/V5 you should have no problems buying new plates

[SHAKEELE30]

hey i drove from croydon to east london, with no front number plate, half a back one, with no headligths working, no brake lights working, just my fog on..... and nothing happened....

[Kos]

shakeel, you joker !

i drove for 6 or 7 months with out a front numberplate on my touring

Get it delt with Jaz

[SHAKEELE30]

hey like taking risks sometimes, makes life a little bit more enjoyable/interesting....

at least jazz has an exuse!!!