Obtaining owner details from a plate no.

[Beemer]

I can't see how a speed camera fine was sent to the address on your driver's licence - how did they know YOU were driving? The fine goes to whoever is the registered owner of the vehicle because they have no way of knowing who was driving at the time.

My sister is a prison officer and her car is registered to the address of the prison for her own safety. Doesn't stop some tosser following her home though, but at least he can't get the information easily.

I don't believe the owner's information should be available to all and sundry - if someone does something bad enough for you to go to these lengths to track them down, it's bad enough to involve the police, who would have access to the database anyway. As far as I'm concerned, it's a bit like whether or not to have your address listed on your driver's licence. You should be able to say that you don't want your address details made publicly available. You can get around it by having your physical work address and a PO Box number.

[Fub@r]

Ah, maybe. You'd have to ask LTNZ.... I dont work directly with people who have fines anymore. Much more pleasent working "behind the scenes".

Was quite amusing when they took off the court costs as I said "sweet now I can buy a picture frame" they asked what for. I replied "well if your charging me $300 for a photo I want to look after it!"

[Str8 Jacket]

The only solution would be to setup a 'shell' coporation that had a physical address and register all your bikes/cars and friends cars/bikes etc to that company under the company name.....seems a little excessive however

Excessive maybe but I reckon that that'd be a really good idea. I get really paranoid that someone will look up my rego for my addy and then come steal my bike one day...

[Str8 Jacket]

I can't see how a speed camera fine was sent to the address on your driver's licence - how did they know YOU were driving? The fine goes to whoever is the registered owner of the vehicle because they have no way of knowing who was driving at the time.

Correctamundo!

[Fub@r]

I can't see how a speed camera fine was sent to the address on your driver's licence - how did they know YOU were driving? The fine goes to whoever is the registered owner of the vehicle because they have no way of knowing who was driving at the time.

Thats what happened in my case

And if you have used your real name on the rego then as Fub@r's Avatar
Fub@r suggested its as esay as 1,2,3 to do a credit check and get an address... im sure there are hundreds of other ways.....

When a credit check is done the company doing the check is recorded agains the persons file. So dont shop around for credit getting declined as all the companies can see it

As for obtaining an address from a name if the person has a mortgage can be done using publicly available software called TUMONZ, Quickmap, Terraview, all come with add on options of private and company owner details plus other information. If you dont want to buy the software going in to any LINZ office (Land Information New Zealand) and look it up for free on one of their public terminals.

[Motu]

What about if you're in a 'witness' protection programme (seriously) like a woman escaping from an abusive relationship? How do they register vehicles and shit? There must be some way to avoid being found.

I had a guy steal a car from me,did a runner with my Bro in Law's car who was overseas - we knew his name and address and everything,but the cops wouldn't do anything because he had ''witness protection''.He had also rung up a string of other thefts that no one could do anything about either.

[Ixion]

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Another good way to do this might be to register it to a PO Box number. Two grey areas about this tho - I'm not sure this is legal as someone has commented that you need a physical address (can a cop/lawyer comment please?), and also I have heard that it's possible to look up the details of the owner of a PO Box. Does anyone know if this is true as well?

I've read in other threads that you need to provide photo ID when going into the Post Office to get these details (obviously you dont need to online however). Does the post office record who has looked up your rego? If your bike does get stolen, can you go to the post office and ask them to tell you who has accessed your rego number?

False street address, genuine PO box no for mailing address. Fines and other letters will go to the PO Box.

Yes, you must provide ID , and your request is logged. Police can check that info. IF they could be bothered (so it's really a waste of time)

I believe that contact details of some type should be available. Someone said "if it's serious enough to get the details, it's serious enough for the Police to do it.". Not so, at all. E.G. You are walking back toward your parked bike. You see Hari Hurriup in his SUV back into your bike and send it flying, and roar off. But , you do get his rego number. What y'going to do with it? Tell the Police? They'll laugh in your face and tell you to piss off. Civil matter. Don't like people hiding behind things, usually a good sign that they've something TO hide.

[WRT]

Don't like people hiding behind things, usually a good sign that they've something TO hide.

You're right, I do have something to hide - my bloody bike! Too many untrustworthy people out there, and I for one would like to make it as hard as possible for the bastards to steal my shit.

Meanwhile, you are sounding remarkably big brother-ish there, Ixion. That's normally the excuse the govt. use as they bend you over and shove the "thin end of the wedge" right where you dont want it.

As for me - I'm actually quite an open and honest person. If I'm talking to someone I know and trust there's very little I wont discuss. But that trust has to be earnt, and why should I trust every person I pass in the street? Just on my way to work each morning, I would have to pass several hundred, if not thousand people. Odds are that one or two of them are not going to be trustworthy, especially in this day and age.

Just another sad fact of life.

[Cajun]

my bike registed is to a business address,
and postal address is a PO box, does not come to my home adress

[cruxis]

I have done a few plate checks on bikes, cars and pricks I wanted to track down. Using vir site, Hasnt failed me yet, though its 25$ to use.

https://www.vir.co.nz/

[sunhuntin]

i havent had to check any plate details, or had anyone get my info from the plates, but i do recall when taking photos of a 1920 harley i found in a repair shop, the mechanic backed it right up against the wall, so there was no way i could get a photo of the plate and therefore rip it off. didnt click till after but i thought "clever mechanic!" once i worked it out.

[Gixxer 4 ever]

I don't believe the owner's information should be available to all and sundry - .

Really. Well I do. As we are rural and on S/H 2 we have a lot of reason to hunt vehicles down. Usual cos they have damaged fencing. Plenty of it over the years. Some times you get lucky and find the plate at the accident site and then you are free to call them. Many times it is a number recorded by friends that were passing at the time. Often it is when I check the road and find the car in the paddock and the drunk driver has left to sleep it off. Thieves driving up the roads looking for places to rip off. They get the message when you call them and ask why they are hanging around your place.
So to protect our stuff we need the info.

[Fub@r]

Its a Catch 22.

Can be used to protect but also abused by the criminal element

[Harry33]

Heres another idea to keep thieves from stealing your pride and joy...

Store it off site.

I have been managing a Storage company for the last few years,we have had all sorts of cars,bikes,boats,dragsters,rallycars over the last couple of years stored with us.

We live onsite,cameras,electric alarmed fence etc. The only down side is we aren't open 24/7.
Winter hours 7am -6pm 7 days aweek
Summer hours 7am-7pm 7 days a week.

Might be better suited for the weekend warrior but a great way to hide the Harley.

[Fub@r]

Do you work for National Mini Storage by chance?