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[Mikes1670]

Can someone tell me why so often when you see photos of someones car - why do they blank out all or part of the vehicle reg. plate?

[RobG]

Can someone tell me why so often when you see photos of someones car - why do they blank out all or part of the vehicle reg. plate?

Public forum......................cloning

[Andy B]

Can someone tell me why so often when you see photos of someones car - why do they blank out all or part of the vehicle reg. plate?

To help prevent Johnny Toerag from copying your number plate for his clandestine operations 

[tgm147]

How does that stop them though? If I wanted to clone a plate I could walk down the street and read one.

[OOMV6]

How does that stop them though? If I wanted to clone a plate I could walk down the street and read one.

My thoughts exactly. I often wondered about this myself, thinking that very same thing. What's the point in covering my plate when the car is parked outside for everyone to see.

[hotel21]

Depends if johnny toe rag passes your street on the way to the free wifi at mickeyD's or if they would rather browse an enthusiast forum for the details of a car at the other end of the country......

[OOMV6]

Depends if johnny toe rag passes your street on the way to the free wifi at mickeyD's or if they would rather browse an enthusiast forum for the details of a car at the other end of the country......

See your point. Still is a case that if not everyone does it, then it surely is a bit of a waste of time for those that do.

[hotel21]

Depends if johnny toe rag passes your street on the way to the free wifi at mickeyD's or if they would rather browse an enthusiast forum for the details of a car at the other end of the country......

See your point. Still is a case that if not everyone does it, then it surely is a bit of a waste of time for those that do.

If not everyone does it then its a case of 'not mine' as I've covered my arse??  So to speak??  As it were?

You get the gist.....   

[dbug]

Its obviously up to the individual but obscuring all or part of your reg no on a pic offers a level of protection against the lazy toerag who finds it much easier to trawl car forums from his armchair than walk down a street to clone plates!

[plym ian]

my dad had his plates cloned, he only found out when he got a parking ticket  through from Manchester (he lives in Essex) and he know it wasn't his car cause his never been to Manchester and at the exact time of the offence his car was parked in his works car park in plain view of CCTV luckily. he is not sure where it has been cloned from cause it in a garage or secure car park, but he suspected it might have been when he parked at gatwick when he went on holiday, the person who was driving the cloned car was an innocent elderly gent who brought the car from a advert in a well know weekly car sales mag.

[waspy]

I think it's always good practice to cover up your plates on a public forum. You never know who's lurking.
For the sake of a few seconds that it takes, it could save you a whole lot of hurt.

[2woody]

who's going to clone an Omega ?

[Lampynoiseboy]

Was watching an episode of the tv series "widows" years ago, when i noticed the green vx nova on the screen had the same plate as my dads blue sierra that was in the garage. Pointed this out so he wrote (showing age here) to Thames TV asking them how come.

They replied that they had rented the car from a prop vehicle company, and it was a road-legal, registered car. Upon contacting swansea they discovered that my dad's car was legally registered as well, and had no decent explanation as to how this had happened

So much for johnny toerag, don't need him when you have the DVLA!!

[dbug]

Many years ago when "based" in Crewe, followed a van one night that had the same plates on as the company Carlton I was driving at the time!!  Police eventually found the van with the false plates.