Strangers checking other cars details

Strangers checking other cars details

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anonymous-user

55 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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Strangers check all the time. Some of them are employed by the police force.

swisstoni

17,064 posts

280 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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Autonomy said:
Strangers check all the time. Some of them are employed by the police force.
I remember them.

fromkentgent

103 posts

64 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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Sadly I'm not good with smart phones but getting a new one and have asked our children to upload mot/road tax app and wire up dashcam.
So many people drive without tax and mot, a few times it can be a genuine oversight but most of the time they are crooks that will smash into you, your car and drive, run off its happened to our car. There is a dedicated website where you can easily send your evidence and they do follow up
Thanks for the great thread

milu

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2,355 posts

267 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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As stated in the OP the wife was happy enough with the reminder.
Nothing suspicious going on other than a car full of suckers up early on a Sunday to go to Christmas markets

Whatever the final analysis it still seems to me that folk are able to get involved in others business very easily these days.

Biker's Nemesis

38,733 posts

209 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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Check this person out.

Found him via the crap driving thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZ8f5amulE

MikeM6

5,018 posts

103 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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Was it the AMV8? Some might look online to get some details, such as engine size and tax bands etc. Some might not know what model it is and be curious.

Easiest way is to put the reg into the website, which also brings up whether it is MOTd and taxed.

I once saw a silver Ferrari drive past the gym I was at. I wasn't sure if it was a 250GT or a replica, but given how valuable a real one was I was very surprised to see one on the road, especially in Lincoln. Checked the reg to see if it was a real one and low and behold, it showed as having an expired MOT (this was before the change to not needing one).

Don't understand why you would want to search if a stranger has taxed or MOTd their car, but searching for other reasons I can understand.

milu

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2,355 posts

267 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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It was a standard X6

Caddyshack

10,906 posts

207 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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A bloke came up to me at a track day at spa, he said he had noticed my wife’s Z3ms front tyres were the wrong way around. It had new tyres all round before the trip and the fitter had put them on the wrong way around. Oddly we had noticed the front washing out.

It had done 2 days at the ‘ring with them on the wrong way and it was wet.

stinkyspanner

725 posts

78 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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'Yeah mate why don't you mind you're own flipping business'
Then go and get it MOTd asap

bigandclever

13,813 posts

239 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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milu said:
It was a standard X6
There you go then. Young man did a reg check to find out what that gopping monstrosity was that he was following, noticed MOT was due and decided to do your mate a favour, cheer him up a bit.

AlexRS2782

8,055 posts

214 months

Monday 2nd December 2019
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Biker's Nemesis said:
Check this person out.

Found him via the crap driving thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZ8f5amulE
Is that another account for Ericmcn's uploads? hehe

ElectricSoup

8,202 posts

152 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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I saw a car in my kids' school car park once, which had the cord showing on the front tyres. Of course it was a massive, flashy SUV of some kind, Q7 if I remember correctly. I left a note on the windscreen explaining that they were risking their own and everyone else's lives.

Reasonable, I thought. Fur coat, no knickers, as my old Nan would have said.

johnnyBv8

2,419 posts

192 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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He probably checked it out of interest to see what model/engine it was, and when the info came up he saw the MOT expired - more likely than going to check the MOT specifically.

Edited by johnnyBv8 on Tuesday 3rd December 09:12