Cloned

egav

Had car for sale a while back on usual site ......being new to selling car(07)foolishly i did not cover number plates........so guy calls sounds really interested in car and arrange for him to call to see it that day again foolishly give him address.He calls later to say he cannot make it and will call next day.So following morning go to car its been broken into tax and insurance disc stolen.......later found on a stolen car(06)which had my plates and new cert made for it,dealer in waterford had bought it in a car park in finglas,,,,
Fast forward about a month and get speeding fine from Galway even though not been there in 2 years so obviously car has been cloned again...................so if anyone sees a black Passat reg 07 D 88800 can you plaese let me know or the Garda...........my car is usually in Dublin or Donegal

Thanks

hanloj1

wiil keep an eye out here.

Chriscl1

You'd think a dealer would check the vin out.

egav

obviously he thought he was getting a good deal..............but the new vehicle registration cert had him fooled........................after it happened i saw a passat on donedeal for 6950 then next day it was 6500 so got someone to call seller and he knew very little about the car ,my suspicions raised i told the gardai but they did not follow it up

savagecabbages

Sickener!
Haven't heard of that one in the past. Is there anything you can do at the motor tax office like get a new clean reg for the car considering the circumstances?? I'm sure the Gardai would like to get to the bottom of this too.

Personally I would cover the plates in an ad, and never meet a buyer at my house -both tactics would draw much stick from posters on this forum, but i'd rather play it safe than sorry.

bladebrew

[QUOTE=savagecabbages;74957661

Personally I would cover the plates in an ad, and never meet a buyer at my house -both tactics would draw much stick from posters on this forum, but i'd rather play it safe than sorry.[/QUOTE]

indeed, there was one poster in the past few days taking the piss out of people who cover reg plates in ad`s,
it seems all to easy to attempt to clone a car here,

L1011

Blanking the plates wouldn't have saved you from this as they clearly just went for the same type and colour of car as the one they had nicked, although it is generally a good idea.

Blanking them would save you from less advanced cloning, but if they swiped the disks, they would have just read the reg then.

weeder

i had one of my scooters cloned in the same fashion, didnt know till the guards called around wondering why they had taken my scooter from the scene of a chase,"sorry guard thats mine there in the garden"

johnos1984

bladebrew wrote: »

indeed, there was one poster in the past few days taking the piss out of people who cover reg plates in ad`s,

I always blank them, you don't know what kind of mentalists are on boards and who like to turn up on your door step :mad:

Delancey

The following is a salutary lesson about the importance of covering plates in ads.

A regular poster in this forum had his car on a site for sale - registration plates were not covered.
A guy rang him about the car , a dispute arose over the phone ( dunno the background to it ) and seller told the caller to F...off.

Fast forward a few days or weeks and the seller found he was being stalked by this guy ( full details escape me but perhaps someone else may remember the full story ).
It transpired this weirdo had got someone in Shannon to run the plates and come up with an address.
We would like to think this is rare but given the very poor record of State Agencies in the area of data protection ( I include the Gardai in this ) my view is that you can never be too careful about keeping the plates hidden , remember this stalking/harrassment was by someone who had never even seen the car.

scoobymunster

Even if you blanked them it only takes a phonecall to get them so it's not that much of a deterrent:
"Hi, saw the ad for the car, do ya mind me asking what the reg is for a motorcheck(or other) report? if it all checks out I'd love to come see it"

savagecabbages

I'd much rather meet the person face to face before giving any details out. At least you know what they look like, and what they turned up in.
That said if things were getting desperate financially for me and i really needed to sell the car i might change my outlook.