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first one is reminiscent of the woods section of strata florida on pnc 2011Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
2nd Aug 2011 3:38 pm
dadof7kids
Member Since: 23 Aug 2011
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My teenage lad like the first pic..
25th Aug 2011 11:14 pm
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really needs to learn the basics first like obscuring numberplates
26th Aug 2011 5:52 pm
adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
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BBS SPY wrote:
really needs to learn the basics first like obscuring numberplates
Never understood that thought - more people see my car on the road vs. internet
27th Aug 2011 2:01 pm
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See your point Adam,
Maybe it's just me being over cautious then, but it's commonly done and makes sense to me.
It's a very interesting point thou, probably worthy of a bit of discussion and debate
After all everyone has heard the horror stories of cloned vehicles and suddenly getting parking tickets from places you never went.
I wonder just how much information can actually be obtained from a picture with a visible reg plate.
I think you can get from a reg plate number to a VIN and full vehicle configuration with Microcat for example.
I don't know what a HPI check gives you?
I guess the registered address for a vehicle might be the most interesting / valuable bit and maybe thats the crux of the matter. For example it's a fair guess my own D3 is registered to Blackbox Solutions and our address is a simple look up as opposed to someone else. I am of course not in the UK myself but if i were it would be a simple matter to write DVLA with a change of address request etc.
27th Aug 2011 4:42 pm
ruggedpeak
Member Since: 10 Jun 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 1625
With a bit of luck and knowhow you can potentially get quite a lot. After all you only have to write to DVLA on old fashioned paper and they'll send you the details of whoever owns a particular registration plate as long as you have some form of excuse e.g. they hit me and drove off or they parked on my land etc. There's a lot more too but not for public viewing Don't forget DVLA are busy selling your data to anyone with the dosh.
However this all falls down if you have personal plates. Like the time a mechanic was convinced the big round thing he'd had was a D3 air compressor cos Microcat said it was for that registration. I pointed out the part was for a FFRR and showed him the rectangular casing under my D3, and he twigged the customer had moved the registration but of course Microcat didn't know that
If you value your privacy, change your reg every couple of years as most systems can't keep up - get a cheapo reg of the same age from DVLA.Tony
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