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Hey All,

So I came back to my Celica after a **** day at work today to find both my number plates missing... I reported it to the police who said this was very common and not much to worry about?

My initial thoughts that I'd the police on my door tomorrow morning arresting me for a bank robbery however from looking on the web it appears the more common use for this is

- Congestion charge avoidance
- Petrol Station drive offs
- Parking fines

Has this happened to anyone else, am I in for a flood of speeding, parking and congestion charge fines?

Is it worth re-registering the car wth a new plate?

Cheers?

Nah i doubt it man....i actually know people they do us...or i herd how it works. What people do mostly on motorcylces is steal plates from registered bikes and put them on stolen bikes and people usually trades the plates so its harder for police to run lincense plate numbers and track it. I dont know if that makes any sense but thats the general idea.

here in cyprus u can go to a plate making shop and for 15 usd have what ever plate u want (english style plates)

You won't be getting the tickets I'm sure because they probably change the plates so that they won't get called on those tickets if they get pulled over (if the cop runs your plates, they'll hopefully come up clean so they can just drive off with a ticket and steal new plates...)

Since you reported it, you shouldn't have problems, but I'm sure that you have to go to the DMV and report it and get new plates...I know that here if you drive on the road without visible plates there's a huge penalty fine...

that sucks! I hope everything turns out okay for you

I thought someone stole my back plate once, it was gone one morning....so I called the police & told them it was missing but that I was going to re-trace my steps for where I had driven the night before because I knew one of my bolts was lose, & amazingly enough I found it face down on a busy street a few miles from my place, mua ha!!! So while the light was red I jumped out & grabbed it....

I called the officer back within 10 min so he wouldnt report my plates as stolen, he was all suspicious & said "hmmm thats convenient"

lol, It does sound suspecious... i was thinking after I called up how easy it would be to report stolen plates after getting flashed by a speed camera!!

I got new plates fitted straight away, though not happy with how I did the front one but I'll re-adjust it at the weekend.