What would you do?

[GSX]

Had the police at the door tonight, seemingly my registration has been involved in a crime. Obviously they won't tell me but said the car is the same make and model but a different colour and wheels to mine, they now know mine's ok.

Should I continue using it or sell as I don't fancy minding my own business and officers especially traffic that might not know it's ok and stop me.

[Carlososos]

GSX said:

Had the police at the door tonight, seemingly my registration has been involved in a crime. Obviously they won't tell me but said the car is the same make and model but a different colour and wheels to mine, they now know mine's ok.

Should I continue using it or sell as I don't fancy minding my own business and officers especially traffic that might not know it's ok and stop me.

Carry on as normal. You may get pulled over but I doubt it. If it turns out to be a big deal going forward then maybe move it on. Unless your trying to apply man maths to justify a new toy. Haha

[Searider]

Put a cheap private plate on it.

[Monkeylegend]

You should now be able to commit crimes with no hassle.

[Pat H]

Searider said:

Put a cheap private plate on it.

Just put the existing plate on retention. You will be allocated a new one.

£80.

[Hoofy]

Monkeylegend said:

You should now be able to commit crimes with no hassle.

[aaron-j9c9a]

I’ve had this before, police gave me a reference number incase I got stopped again. A week later my car got surrounded by armed police. Once it was all explained n reference number given I never had any bother again.

[JRFrench]

Seems a bit extreme to sell the car due to this surely? As someone mentioned above, if you started getting pulled over worst case you retain your plate for £80 and you get a new one.

[jeremyh1]

Listen Shaggy Just say

"it wasn't me" !

[vikingaero]

Hoofy said:

I would prefer to find my "other" car, and smash the st out of it - after all it is your car isn't it?

[Howard-]

A few weeks ago I found out that my plate had been cloned after I got a parking fine letter with the offence being near Greenwich. I have never been to Greenwich via car and certainly not in mine! They had obviously found a photo of my car online (lesson learnt!) as the car photographed was one that looks identical to mine.

I notified the police and they gave me a crime ref number, and I then gave this and the relevant info to the parking company. I was expecting to receive a barrage of congestion charge / parking / speeding fines over the coming days/weeks, and to get pulled over when out and about, but nope, absolutely nothing more happened.

The advice from the police will be to just get on with your life and provide any necessary info if you do get pulled over.

[CLX]

Pat H said:

Searider said:

Put a cheap private plate on it.

Just put the existing plate on retention. You will be allocated a new one.

£80.

Problem when you're already on a private plate. That's what happened to me. Luckily, I didn't get any further incidents after the first one. (I think the police caught them with the cloned car)

[Hoofy]

vikingaero said:

Hoofy said:

I would prefer to find my "other" car, and smash the st out of it - after all it is your car isn't it?

[Short Grain]

Put a couple of easily identifiable stickers on back and front screens, PH Stickers even, so yours can be seen as different. Time stamped photo of yours with stickers so you can prove how long they've been there as well maybe?

the crime spree before doing this could work