Another Person Registering a 4x4 at your Address

Hi Boys & Girls

on the 4/01/2008 a Man was at my door asking me When are you going to Move your 4x4 ,I said the its on drive, you have left it in a pub car park said the Man

Somebody had Registered a 4x4 at my address not known to me My question being can you check what cars a registered at a address ?

All the Best

Skinty

"Life's Short so Live It"

Reply to
skinty
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Report it to the police - either someone has cloned your number plate or someone has falsely registered a car as being owned by someone resident at your address.

Reply to
Allen

Yes, you just have to have (not sure exactly how they put it) a 'good' reason and the DVLA will give out the details of the owner if you apply for them.

Matt

Reply to
Matt M

I don't think he's trying to find out where a car is registered, I think he wants to find out if there are any other cars registered at his address.

Reply to
Ian Rawlings

Yep! My fault, you're right. Really should learn to read properly! Mind you, having a wriggling 2yr old on your lap does rather sap the concentration!

Don't know any way of doing what the OP asked, but surely if a vehicle has been re-registered to his address, then he should have got the V5 through the post?

I've heard of this kind of thing (registering to a random address) going on quite a lot recently. The DVLA really should do some sort of address checking - over here you can't re-register a car without giving blood - well, almost! but you do need at least 18 months CT (MOT), a certificate de non-gage (UK HPI equiv.), Passport/Photo ID and a recent utility bill, not to mention the official paperwork that the previous owner has to fill out on sale, oh and your own set of paperwork too!

Matt

Reply to
Matt M

Hi Matt

Yes You are right it goes on a lot ,common as id fraud I didn't say to 4x4 was in my name only registered to my Address might take a trip down to local bill shop & see what they say as the man at the door might try to charge me for 14 days Parking or CJ my address for not paying

Regards

Skinty

"Life's a 1 way Ticket "

Reply to
skinty

In article , skinty writes

Is it not possible there's simply been a c*ck-up at DVLA, and someone there has given out your details by mistake? It seems more likely...

Regards,

Simonm (long-time fan of Occam).

Reply to
SpamTrapSeeSig

On a CD, perhaps!

Reply to
Dougal

He apparently did, or checked what address the car was registered at.

Reply to
jg

Hang on a minute.

A random bloke has seen a 4x4 parked outside the pub.

The random bloke turned up at your house after seeing the car.

How the hell did the random bloke get details of where the car is registered to in the first place????

Reply to
Vertuas

A few years ago I got a demand over a vehicle in a supermarket carpark.

It was a combine harvester I'd sold two years before.

I reported the apparent fraudulent use of a registration mark to the Police. Apparently, the DVLA was telling the police different information to what they told the car-parking company.

Reply to
David G. Bell

|Hang on a minute. | |A random bloke has seen a 4x4 parked outside the pub.

Untrue. | |The random bloke turned up at your house after seeing the car.

Untrue | |How the hell did the random bloke get details of where the car is registered |to in the first place????

He didn't.

There is NO SUCH THING as a "random bloke".

Reply to
Howie

On or around Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:12:19 GMT, "Vertuas" enlightened us thusly:

he owns the pub and is trying to trace the owner of the vehicle to get it removed from his car park, I should think.

Reply to
Austin Shackles

Indeed that is the likely case,

but how did he find out the address to which the car is registered??

If it wasn't Skinty's car, as his was on the drive way at the time, the person must have assumed that it was skinty's car in which case there is no other 4x4 registered at the address, its just the landlord mistake.

If this is anither car that happens to have been registered at the OP address, how would landlord have gotten details of where the car is registered.....the DVLA are not allow to give that information out under Data Protection Rules.

Reply to
Vertuas

You can apply for such information and if you have a good enough reason to know it - in their opinion - you'll get it.

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

There's supposed to be a code of practise too, requiring car parking operators to be able to provide certain evidence.

Either DVLA have made a mistake--what a surprise--or somebody has done something illegal. Since a new/revised registration should lead to the OP getting documents from DVLA, there's likely to be some DVLA mistake.

Now, I've known DVLA make some biggies--as I said, a combine harvester in a London supermarket carpark, and that one was pretty obvious--but some of the car park operators are a bit dodgy with the format of their enforcement notices. They try to make them look far more official than they are, closely resembling the criminal notices issued by local authorities for on-street parking offences, when these things are civil trespass.

On the other hand, if you're dealing with the guy from the local pub, there's things you can do. Like checking nobody has made a mistake with number plates and gotten a couple of digits swapped. If it's local, you can get a photograph of the vehicle.

If your 4x4 does have a similar number plate (and I once had a couple of tractors which must have been registered on the same day, by different dealers) you've already got an explanation. And if it's identical plates, that's definitely time to call in the Police. Remember, check the plates and the tax-disk.

The Police are much more aware than DVLA staff of just how unreliable the data is. They know the tricks the bad guys pull.

Reply to
David G. Bell

They're not all that fussy, either. They seem to give details out willy-nilly to any mouth-breathing wheel-clamper who asks for them.

I used to believe that the DVLA would only give out info to authorities such as the police, for security reasons, but it just ain't true.

Reply to
Rich B

Thanx All

I totally Agree with you But I Never trust Pub Landlords Lots of them are ex bill & would grass you up for a Pint the 4x4 has been taken a way & I Hope Its the end of the story strange but he never liked me any way & I don't drink in his pub

All the Best Skinty

"The Early Bird Catches the Worm"

Reply to
skinty

In message , Vertuas writes

Oh yes they are. Government and government agencies simply override DP Act as and when it suites them. It is however worth bearing in mind the DP Act is not so much about privacy and confidentiality. It's more about registering the purpose for which personal data is to be used. It's then a breach of the Act to use it for any other purpose.

With a commercial organisation if you don't like it you can go somewhere else but with government and their agencies you don't have any choice and you can't withhold your details.

Reply to
hugh

In message , David G. Bell writes

I was a bit disconcerted once to be told by my local (independent) LR dealer that when they had looked up my vehicle on the database tit had come up with another vehicle with the same reg.

A bit of checking found it had been a simple typo by the original salesperson.

What really upset me was the other vehicle was a bloody Freelander.

Reply to
hugh

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