Caterham Fraud,Stolen, Ringed, Scam, Help.

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I have had my cars identity stolen, I cant go to far into detail as the police and dvla are currently working on it, but somebody has managed to apply for the v5 for my car and once received they have changed the colour, engine, engine number and placed a private number on it to try and hide its identity, i cant use my car now until its sorted, I have found out who it is and what the other car is and its totaly wrong, I have tried to contact him to resolve the situation but no reply, I can give a basic description of the car it may be a stolen car using my details, it may be a damaged repairable with no id or he may of told his insurance company that his car was stolen and he hid it under my cars id I just dont know yet, its a polished body with carbon fibre nose, front cycle wings and rear wings, lowered floors, solid rear axle with caliper conversion, red interior trim panels, carbon around gear stick tunnel area, 1.6 zetec fuel injection with large alloy radiator, black super 7 badge on nose, he changed the details as soon as he recieved the new v5, certainly a lot to change in a week, then there's the caterham chassis he sold on ebay about the same time, if you have bought that chassis i hope it's not from a stolen car.

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I cant use mine as he has placed a private plate onto my chassis number/v5, somebody told me to get a new set of plates showing the private reg and find the nearest speed camera.

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forest07 said:

I can't see anyone get away with this, just changing the engine number on my last Caterham was a pain. I had to supply evidence of supply etc.

Good luck.

I quoted that to dvla and your right, guess what, yes they let it slip through.

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I've been on the phone with dvla, my question to them was so somebody can apply for a v5 in there name and on arrival they can change the colour, engine cc, engine number and transfer a personnel reg number all at the same time and you don't think twice about it, answer that's correct sir, even the police cant believe it, the police went round to check the car and because the reg number and chassis plate number matched the v5 they walked, of course they match his ringed the car, I feel like banging my head against a wall.

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I know where he lives, left a message with whoever answered the phone once he stopped shouting at me, but has not rang me and like the police said he never will because I know what his done.

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Any idea what this races in, thanks.

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This is how it looks now, no the plate on the racing car is his daughters name.

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It's not a bullxxxx story, me and my car have been abroad for a while and on return I had to make the car legal for the UK ie tax and mot, but the reg number wasn't coming up on the system anymore on further investigation with DVLA it seems somebody had applied for the v5 and once received they changed the engine number, engine cc, colour and stuck there private number plate on it, I did a hpi on my chassis number to get the new reg number, then got a duplicate mot cert to find out who had mot'd the car and where, luckily for me through social media I found out who that person was and informed the police who are dealing with it, I can not use my car anymore because I can not tax it or mot it as my reg number is not on the system anymore as per the police and dvla and I have to wait for them to investigate which is taking forever.

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My car has a V5 logbook from new and all its old mot's and history going back to the day it was made, the other cars owner applied by filling in the required forms and paying I think it is £25 for the log book on my car only recently, once received he changed the details to match his cars spec so now we have 2 v5s both showing the same previous owner, the previous owner only recognises one car out of the two and that's mine, DVLA are dealing with it just at a very slow pace, DVLA have screwed up twice, firstly they knew it was out of the country on a long holiday and secondly they never bothered to check the change of engine cc, they have admitted both.

Edited by MARKS6900 on Wednesday 25th May 10:58

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Doofus said:

What I don't understand is thet you have a V5 showing your reg, chassis and engine number, p,us the colour of your car. He has a V5 showing a different reg, different chassis no, different engine no and different colour.

In what way is this a) cloned, b) restricting your ability to use your car or c) a problem?

I'm not being arsey, I acept that DVLA ballsed up, I just don't see any proble with the outcome.

Both cars have the same chassis number as he has cloned his car with my v5, he has changed the reg number by transferring a private plate on to the v5 so my original number in on retention now, I can not tax or mot my car now as it's not on the system.

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As above, I have called him and left a message but no reply, he knows I have tried to contact him to try and get to the bottom of this as the police went to his house to see if he still had his car which he does and he told the police that I had rang him, he is very vague with details, apparently he cant remember where he bought it from, I would love to find out how he got my details but I guess that will never happen, he seems to of restored a track car and then made it road legal but surely the track car would of had a chassis number to help him to road register it the correct way.

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It looks like a Caterham but its totally different in all ways to mine and you would totally devalue my car to make it look like that, if he knows much about them which I've been told he does, when he got hold of my V5 he must of thought sh#t I've picked the wrong car.

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No progress yet, my car is just sitting in the garage waiting