Cagers with fake plates?

[pyrocam]

I'd offer a reward if there was something more to go on. A vauge description of a car and the license plate thats probably changed again tonight isnt enough for people to go on. I'm sure someone knows this guy although probably not kiwibikers. Maybe I should offer it in sideswipe or something.

I am being extra vigilant now, Im sure I can spot his car again and this time I have my phone and camera ready

[mashman]

I wonder if they ever did the upgrade... http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/...257518003E5EE6 I'm guessing not. Good luck with finding the bstard...

[thehovel]

3 months or so ago I was hit by a car (I reckon maliciously but who knows) on the newmarket overpass which then left the scene, someone chased him and got the numberplate which turned out to for a different vehicle so the police were unable to do anything.

This morning I was coming over the bridge and I noticed a similar car, white toyota, dents on the side. I eyed him up and he slowed down to 40 going over the bridge. I remembered the numberplate and then typed it into carjam.co.nz to see and its another set of fake/stolen plates. (the rego was for an orange van)

My theory is that this guy commutes (both times I was on my way to or from work) and changes his numberplates. The new numberplates havent been reported stolen, so I think he might be making his own? is that even possible?

I called the police, but because the plates wernt registered stolen and was still active in the system there wasnt much they could do about it. called transit NZ who own the cameras on the bridge, they dont record any footage so cant playback the and confirm the vehicle and maybe driver.

what else can I do but sit on a bridge during rush hour and wait for him and call the cops. could be a big waste of time.

NB: The damage was 5k, insurance covered it but still a hefty excess since they couldnt recover costs. I am more annoyed that the guy fucked off and is still driving, I was lucky I wasnt hit by the traffic behind me, someone else might not be so lucky.

Get a photo of the driver and plates and give it to your insurance co. They have an intest in getting thier mony back.

[Leseid]

I've seen fake plates on a Toyota Estima. My girl friend pointed out something odd about the number plate on the car in front.
5 years of being a graphic designer I have an eye for type setting, these where fake plates. The alignment wasn't quite level, the kerning (the spacing in between) wasn't correct. The thing that gives it away the most is the white pant behind the black.

So someone has got a nice black market product here, you'd have to machine 26 letters and 9 digits as punch dies. ~2mm thick aluminium sheets and some sort of press, paints and cheap labour and bob's your uncle. Buy them at the markets with all the other black market products, stick em on your vehicle and no speeding tickets no need for 3rd party insurance.

This would be a sod to police!

Solution:

All new number plates must be affixed with tamper proof rivets that only VTNZ can fit. Although this wont be a full proof solution it will make it difficult to steel, swap plates.

[scumdog]

yeah cops wont run plates through the computer system unless a driver is driving badly, or the vehicle looks unwarrantable.
So theoretically if you have a decent car, you could drive on fake plates for many years without getting caught, even if the plates WERE reported stolen. Provided your the sort of person that never gets pulled over.

Unless like some (a lot actually) they pull over random cars for drink-driving check etc and check the plates too for a gego/WOF check.

[scumdog]

One way to get a another set of plates:

Go to post office, say you' lost' a plate and for a few $$ you get two new plates with different letters/numbers to the 'lost' one.

Only you now have two sets of plates....

[pyrocam]

I've seen fake plates on a Toyota Estima. My girl friend pointed out something odd about the number plate on the car in front.
5 years of being a graphic designer I have an eye for type setting

I know what you mean

[Ixion]

One way to get a another set of plates:

Go to post office, say you' lost' a plate and for a few $$ you get two new plates with different letters/numbers to the 'lost' one.

Only you now have two sets of plates....

Except that both sets reference the same bike - yours. So whichever number a cop gets , it's going to give him what he wants. I don't think you're devious enough to make a good criminal, Mr Scumdog.

[scumdog]

Except that both sets reference the same bike - yours. So whichever number a cop gets , it's going to give him what he wants. I don't think you're devious enough to make a good criminal, Mr Scumdog.

Maybe not me - but some people do as I described - and THEY think they're shit hot- law foolers