My car has been cloned!

[TokyoRich]

What a shock, just got a parking fine for one of my cars from a car park in Cobham.. Funny thing is that I have never been to Cobham, funnier thing is that the car in question has never actually been driven on the road except when I drove it to and from its MOT after is was delivered from the port, it has been on a SORN since.

The car is being advertised so I guess they got the reg off the advertisement..

Seems like this is going to be a real pain.. At least I can put myself at work when the "offense" occurred as our entry to the building is logged..

Has this happened to others - what was the outcome? Guess I need to contact the police and the DVLA.

[Peanut Gallery]

Happened to friends of mine, they simply sent a letter to the company explaining that they lived miles away, had never been near there, and had a different color car to the one in question.

They have not been bothered about it at all since then, it seems it was a genuine mistake by the parking warden that was rectified straight away - good luck!

[TokyoRich]

Problem is that this parking company sent me a picture of my number plate.. on someone elses car.. Sadly the number plate does not show their car but I suspect highly unlikely its the same as mine.. As it's a Subaru Sambar VW Campervan lookalike..

Just got off the phone with the police and DVLA so lets hope there are no more tickets on the way...

[Bennet]

I always thought people hiding their registration plates in photos were being paranoid.

[TokyoRich]

Bennet said:

I always thought people hiding their registration plates in photos were being paranoid.

Exactly what I thought.. its the only way they could have got it as the car has not been o the road..

[R8VXF]

Bennet said:

I always thought people hiding their registration plates in photos were being paranoid.

People are welcome to clone my plate. With only 1 other car on the road in the UK with the same colour as mine, it will be very easy to prove it wasn't me when it turns up on a red Ka in Nottingham for example. (Happened to another VXR8 recently, he just went back to the council and asked them to double check the make and model of car

[Swanny87]

It's daft. You should have to provide licence and V5 (or photos/scans of) when getting new plates. Anyone can just buy them off eBay...

[TokyoRich]

Its true, they did change the law so that when a proper company makes plates they need to log it and ask for docs but as you say everyone just gets around it by buying "show plates" off ebay..

Police came back to me and have logged the car as suspicious..

[TokyoRich]

anonymous said:

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Sure, it was the car park at 22 Cobham High Street, KT11 3EB

Reg is P221 CCT mine is a red Subaru Sambar (photos on www.akagiauto.com) So again, pretty unusual.. and hopefully easy to prove its not mine!