Why do you hide your plate?
- Thread starter PHILMEWAGON
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Hey
This is purely out of interest: why do you feel the need to hide your plate in online pics/video?
On the one hand you could say "I don't want my car cloned", but then isn't driving down the street where thousands of other drivers see your plate even more risky?
Ahhh, but consider if you were looking to clone a plate of say a Cupra in a particular colour. Then how long would you have to wait in a random street to see one, when you could farm it off a forum?
...and why risk cloning a plate local to you when you could have one at the other end of the country? Imagine driving down road with randoms waving at you then puzzled when notice that their friend isn't driving.
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I just cover my plate because it's in the forum rules. I've been told off before on here and can't be bothered with the argument. I tend to put less photos up than I used to because it's not as straightforward when you got to load it into another app first to blur the plate and then save it back to your camera roll and then load it to the forum
There have been instances of people getting speeding fines/fines for non payment of the London congestion charge/parking fines because they've had their car cloned.
This is people in the north of England, Wales & Scotland.
So, you live in Aberdeen & own 'say' a black mk3 SC FR....and you post up pictures of your car on this forum.
Some other scumbag with the exact same car who lives in London (say a drug dealer type) who regularly breaks the law as he doesn't give two monkeys about who he hurts clones the plates & then uses it on his car to avoid paying the congestion charge , or drives in bus lanes, or parking tickets etc. All of which attract a fine.
Meanwhile, some poor innocent sod in Aberdeen is receiving fines in the post left, right & centre because the plate on the offending car is linked to him.
And unless the offending cloned plated car is found the innocent party is stuck trying to convince the authorities that he isn't the person responsible and he hasn't incurred the fines
Always hide you plate!!
This is people in the north of England, Wales & Scotland.
So, you live in Aberdeen & own 'say' a black mk3 SC FR....and you post up pictures of your car on this forum.
Some other scumbag with the exact same car who lives in London (say a drug dealer type) who regularly breaks the law as he doesn't give two monkeys about who he hurts clones the plates & then uses it on his car to avoid paying the congestion charge , or drives in bus lanes, or parking tickets etc. All of which attract a fine.
Meanwhile, some poor innocent sod in Aberdeen is receiving fines in the post left, right & centre because the plate on the offending car is linked to him.
And unless the offending cloned plated car is found the innocent party is stuck trying to convince the authorities that he isn't the person responsible and he hasn't incurred the fines
Always hide you plate!!
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The rules actually relate to posting pics of other peoples cars up, you can post as many pics of your own cars reg if you are daft enough to want to.
Personally it's because I don't want my online identity to be matched to me in the street if I can avoid it.
I drive round like thisas I don't want to be cloned either......
LMAO.........exactly. Doesn't worry me one bit tbf. Each to their own tho...
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