Ian Lanc Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Today we encountered a dangerous driver, reg plate was YG09 XNN on a black BMW hatchback, on checking this car out via Gov.UK for road tax/MOT/Insurance, the car came back as a Black Mini. Is there anyway this can be reported ? Police maybe ? MOT https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/ConfirmVehicle?locale=en TAX https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/ConfirmVehicle?locale=en Insurance. https://ownvehicle.askmid.com/# Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomsFocus Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Probably best to call 101 for this. Your local police website may also have an online form you can use. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Lanc Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 18 minutes ago, TomsFocus said: Probably best to call 101 for this. Your local police website may also have an online form you can use. Missus took a pic of that actual car. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unofix Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 BMW Mini ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Lanc Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 39 minutes ago, unofix said: BMW Mini ? Plate was on this sort of BMW. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostNTransit Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Try living in the US In Mississippi no one drives with plates, In Maryland.. I've seen cars/trucks drive with paper temp tags for more than 10 years and the cops aren't doing anything about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isetta Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 If someone transfers a plate in uk(although that does not look like a typical type of plate you would transfer) does it show up straight away on the dvla websites we can access or is there a time lag? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isetta Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Slightly off topic, a bit more akin to non policing of temporary tags in USA, if I bring to the uk a car from another country, how long would I be able to drive it on the foreign plates for? Cars dont have passports so how would a policeman know how long the car had been in uk. I am in England. Is this a common problem in Ireland / Northern Ireland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turvey Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 2 minutes ago, isetta said: Slightly off topic, a bit more akin to non policing of temporary tags in USA, if I bring to the uk a car from another country, how long would I be able to drive it on the foreign plates for? Cars dont have passports so how would a policeman know how long the car had been in uk. I am in England. Is this a common problem in Ireland / Northern Ireland. https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/temporary-imports 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 7 minutes ago, isetta said: If someone transfers a plate in uk(although that does not look like a typical type of plate you would transfer) does it show up straight away on the dvla websites we can access or is there a time lag? From experience it can take a couple of weeks. I know our previous Focus did, whether that's changed within the last 4/5yrs I dunno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isetta Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 7 minutes ago, Turvey said: https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/temporary-imports I thought the bit where it suggests you show the policeman a ferry ticket as evidence a bit laughable. Do ferry tickets show reg no? I don’t know , I haven’t taken a car on a cross channel ferry for 35 years. But I suppose the main point seems to be that if you are a British resident you can’t drive a car with a foreign plate on it, or can you, is it a No if I bought the car, but a yes if it is a foreign friend’s car here on a temporary visit? I don’t really know. But I suspect that if I bought a foreign registered car here, as long as I did nothing wrong I would never get stopped as anpr can’t check mot tax insurance on foreign registered cars. And if I got stopped I could just speak in Greek and then the police would give up. I’m not really going to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RL123 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 My wife’s new Puma 7 months ago, when we got home we noticed the plates were different from the paperwork. Checked on dvla and it came back as a red Skoda. contacted the dealer and turns out the plates were made wrong with a letter wrong. Ooops 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulkp Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 16 hours ago, isetta said: Slightly off topic, a bit more akin to non policing of temporary tags in USA, if I bring to the uk a car from another country, how long would I be able to drive it on the foreign plates for? Cars dont have passports so how would a policeman know how long the car had been in uk. I am in England. Is this a common problem in Ireland / Northern Ireland. I think it is one year 15 hours ago, RL123 said: My wife’s new Puma 7 months ago, when we got home we noticed the plates were different from the paperwork. Checked on dvla and it came back as a red Skoda. contacted the dealer and turns out the plates were made wrong with a letter wrong. Ooops Must be something about Pumas... I was buying a old Thunder in 2009, and it was displaying the private plate. The dealer wanted me to take it on the day (!) despite the fact that it had yet to be re-registered, so I would be driving around in a car with a plate that now belonged to a Fiesta ! I declined. Buying bits from Ford required the old number for quite a while. I miss that car, 8 years, 80k mile added, a fun drive especially with the Eibachs I fitted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenFord Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 17 hours ago, isetta said: ... Is this a common problem in Ireland / Northern Ireland. No, however driving a car with Northern Ireland plates through Dublin during the 'troubles' was always an anxious time! Also vice versa, a Southern registered car driving up north was always quite suspicious! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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