Covered registration plates when selling?

midlifecrisis

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I'm happy with my MOT history...it's spotless. However, I know of one owner, who is VERY Protective of his MOT history as it's had a failure, this was corrected but remained as an advisory, and has since conveniently disappeared when he bought the car. He got very defensive about it...and is still....
 

Gp79

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I'm happy with my MOT history...it's spotless. However, I know of one owner, who is VERY Protective of his MOT history as it's had a failure, this was corrected but remained as an advisory, and has since conveniently disappeared when he bought the car. He got very defensive about it...and is still....
How do you make anything on the MOT history disappear? I was under the impression once it was there that’s it?
 

conaero

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I get it. You obtain the reg, then people are cloning plates and driving there ghost cars amassing tolls and parking fines

This then lands on the owner to disprove.

It’s probably more of an issue with the run of the mill cars like a black Golf.
 

dickygrace

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When I see this I instantly think they’ve got something to hide from the mot history.
It just seems like an own goal trying to sell something if there’s nothing to hide.
Nothing to hide other than the obvious, stops people cloning them, and fraudulent use of reg plates. I’ve never once shown the reg in advert, but always happy to hand it over to anyone enquiring.
 

Mavster

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When I see this I instantly think they’ve got something to hide from the mot history.
It just seems like an own goal trying to sell something if there’s nothing to hide.

Na, its probably that the owner has tried to protect themselves from bank ram raiders using their reg and so getting a lot of grief from the plod
 

Nibby

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Nothing to hide other than the obvious, stops people cloning them, and fraudulent use of reg plates. I’ve never once shown the reg in advert, but always happy to hand it over to anyone enquiring.
Tbh Dicky I didn't really have you in mind, it was more the private sale with a towell over the number plate.
 

DLax69

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Tbh Dicky I didn't really have you in mind, it was more the private sale with a towell over the number plate.
Maybe I don't understand all the ins and outs of vehicle registration there, but seems like you could just photograph any plate in any parking lot (Tesco, anyone? I'm learning!) and do the same...so not sure why hiding the plate isn't seen as anything other than suspicious.
 

dgmx5

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Maybe I don't understand all the ins and outs of vehicle registration there, but seems like you could just photograph any plate in any parking lot (Tesco, anyone? I'm learning!) and do the same...so not sure why hiding the plate isn't seen as anything other than suspicious.

Why not just walk down the road and use a pen and paper à la trainspotter?
 

Mavster

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....there is no guarantee of finding a similar car on the high street as the naives have stolen. Simpler to check for exact match on a sale portal
 

DLax69

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....there is no guarantee of finding a similar car on the high street as the naives have stolen. Simpler to check for exact match on a sale portal
My grandfather...who I think I've mentioned elsewhere...had a shop that um, reassigned ownership of "found" vehicles. But that was in the 70s, pre-interwebs...
 

RodTungsten

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I would hope that the DVLA I would be looking for ANPR duplicates too close in time for the distance apart for real and clones.