Hi
Heard quite a lot recently about car cloaning. I think its mainly in connection with the congestion charge recently introduced for London and ways of trying to avoid paying it. Could not find anything about it on the web (Google etc) or on this site.
Anyone got any info?
Regards
Johno
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What info do you want? It is going on all over the place, to avoid any legal or court action to do with a car. Driving away without paying for fuel, speeding, parking, congestion charge ie avoiding anything that involves correctly identifying a vehicle commiting an offence.
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try searhing under "cloning", searching within results gives 94,000 hits.
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Do you want to clone a car, or are you just doing "research"?
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For a while I thought it was best to have an anonymous car, no stickers, plain plates, etc. But now I'm beginning to think it is better to have a 'unique' sticker in the window and plates with a dealer logo. I know it's hardly high tech but may help if push comes to shove. What do others think?
Did any BRs see the Richard and Judy piece on this?
Steve.
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I would guess that cloning a car involves attaching a numberplate to your car which is identical to the number plate of another identical car. The other poor owner then has to argue against any speeding fines, parking tickets and so on. "Guilty until proven innocent"?
I should imagine that another problem, ever increasing because of police targets, government revenue generation and so on, is the registration of a car to a false name and address. Surely, especially if a £100 (or so) banger is bought, it's possibly worth the risk of entering a false name and address on the new owner registration document. No speed camera fines, no congestion charge etc etc.
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www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5261-662029,00.ht...l
I particularly liked the fact that the police didn't seem to be too interested in finding a cloned vehicle which had been involved in a hit and run incident. Of course, it was in the media, so I don't suppose that it's a 100% accurate story.
"Mr Losekann said that the officers told him that they could do nothing because the vehicle?s owner might be an innocent victim who thought he was buying a legitimate car. When Mr Losekann pointed out that the driver had committed many offences, he said the officers said that they did not have the time to make local inquiries or to stake out the car.
At this point, Mr Losekann realised that he would have to take action himself to stop the criminal using the car and possibly killing or injuring someone. He punctured all four tyres. The following day he contacted The Times to tell his story. He rang the police to tell them he had gone to the media and, when he returned to the scene an hour later, he found that the car had gone."
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