Driving With False Registration Plates!!!!

Reidy · 16-11-2007, 20:38

My partner and i bought a Ford Mondeo from a main dealers in March this year, It was a used car with a good history. It was taxed for 6 months by the dealer and came with warranty as you would expect.

3 days ago we got the tax reminder from DVLA for a Ford Mondeo with the wrong registration number????? Or so we thought.

This set alarm bells ringing as i was only 2 digits different, so i went and checked the tax disk on the car, it had our reg on it, so i checked the log book, it had our reg on it, i checked the mot, it had our reg on it. So i phoned DVLA to my amazment they had sent the right tax reminder????

So whats the problem???? I asked my self...........................

I got the log book annd went to match the Vin Number to the log book and guess what............... IT DIDNT MATCH!!!!!

I thought oh my god we got a ringed car!!!!!! What do i do!!!!!!

So off i went to the main dealer. Who couldnt understand it, i basically went nuts at the salesman who sold it us!!!!! As you would.

He said can you leave the car with us and we will get to the bottom of it.

So he gave me a courtesy car and off i went.

Yesterday they phoned me and asked me and my partner to go down so we did. To our astonishment there was another mondeo in the area sold by them with our registation plates on it!!!!!!!!!!

When they sold the car they put the wrong plates on ours and the wrong plates on another cstomers vehicle and given us thier log book, mot etc etc and them ours!!!!!

It all seems to be getting sorted but what i still dont understand is................
HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN? arnt there procedures in place to stop this kind of thing????????

No one seems to be giving me an answer.......... and im completley puzzled and infuriated. If had an accident with the wrong plates on my car and the wrong reg on m insurance certificate would i have been insured???? did my car actuall have an MOT???????? was it actually taxed or have i been driving completley illegally for the past months???????

Im so mad, i want to name and shame but darnt for fear of repercusions!!!

slinky · 16-11-2007, 20:41

MY god!!

I'm not sure the police would have been happy. And that doesn't help you when you thought everything was above board and legal.

Reidy · 16-11-2007, 20:42

Tell me about it, and no one at the dealership has said "SORRY" or given us an explination yet!!!

glasgow guy · 16-11-2007, 20:43

phone the papers...let them name and shame...and whats the worst they can do to you ?..
its their problem...if it were to go public let them deal with it.. as for this..
"If had an accident with the wrong plates on my car and the wrong reg on m insurance certificate would i have been insured???? did my car actuall have an MOT???????? was it actually taxed or have i been driving completley illegally for the past months??????? "...

that should never enter your head when buying a car..for that I would name and shame..

BERNADETTE · 16-11-2007, 20:43

Are you not going to get any legal advice? I think I would if in your position.

slinky · 16-11-2007, 20:45

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Are you not going to get any legal advice? I think I would if in your position.

Actually you are right there.

What is to say that the other car hasn't got parking tickets or something like that??
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You would have hell of a time proving it wasn't your car!!

i would go to the police station and ask their advice.

Reidy · 16-11-2007, 20:48

I think we should go to the free advice surgery at the solicitors in the morning and see what they say!

K.S.H · 16-11-2007, 20:50

Initially you "could" have been in trouble but once you proved what happened then everything should be passed to the dealer and I think your case would have been thrown out, these things should never happen though.
1 qusetion is did you get the car you paid for or did you get the other one?
Not hard to work out who the garage was if you bought it local

BERNADETTE · 16-11-2007, 20:51

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Originally Posted by Reidy

I think we should go to the free advice surgery at the solicitors in the morning and see what they say!

I was going to say that, it is worth your while just to cover your back.

slinky · 16-11-2007, 20:52

I'll take a wild guess at Ignition

K.S.H · 16-11-2007, 20:55

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Originally Posted by slinky

I'll take a wild guess at Ignition

MAIN dealers he said

runs after rabbits

slinky · 16-11-2007, 20:56

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Originally Posted by K.S.H

MAIN dealers he said

runs after rabbits

ahhhhhh yes

Bonnyboy · 16-11-2007, 21:42

I had a car a few years ago 1999 ish and kept getting parking tickets sent from the various councils within London, Hackney and the like. Would they believe me when I said it’s just not possible….would they hell. I even had my workplace ring them and offer to show my car in full view on the works car park (CCTV Footage) at the times of the supposed parking offences. I even got a letter from a car compound to say they had the car. I rang them telling them that the car wasn’t mine and to keep the car, as by now I had got the police involved. Unfortunately, they had released the car the previous day. I eventually took the car down to Accy Police Station having had to await an appointment for some specialist from Preston to give it the once over. He said my motor was the real one, and gave me paperwork to prove the point which was good enough for me. I traded it in within a week of that.

mallard · 16-11-2007, 21:54

If the police would of stop,t you ,you would have had the book throw,n at you,but you are on the right side of the law,keep it up.

Reidy · 17-11-2007, 13:00

Ok we have the car back now with its right plate, still awaiting some of the paperwork, but still!!!! NO APPOLOGY!!!!! im disgusted that the staff just pass the buck onto another department who then pass it on to another and another and so on and no one has appologised, BY THE WAY ITS EVANS HALSHAW!!!!!