I think I’ve brought a ringer……..

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You have got to say is it a good use of Police time? What is the normal outcome? Car is returned to the insurance company who do not really want it or if they find nothing back to the person that has it, do they ever catch a criminal out of these cases?, If you have not got the man power to turn out to a breaking where there is a chance of catching someone
I’d say it is. If it was your stolen Landy, you’d want it returned.
 
Part of the fight against crime is to stop peeps benefitting from it after the crime has occured.
I can understand that but will investigating this stop people benefiting or would going through ebay and gumtree looking for people selling engines gearboxes and other bits and finding out where they came from, more chance of catching the criminal, cut off where they can sell the cars and bits and the crime will stop
 
Quite the opposite. The police have to investigate stolen vehicles, even after they have had their identities potentially changed. If they didn’t, they would not be fighting the growing market for stolen vehicles and parts. Yes, investigate the thefts but also those who knowingly buy stolen vehicles and parts, which drives the increasing Land Rover theft problem.
 
I think the police are onto a hiding for nothing
They show no interest in stolen cars/general policing
They have very little respect from the general public as they only seem to engage in money making schemes that are eady to enforce, ie speeding
Anpr system that fors not seem to work

Their hands are probably tied up with paperwork from tosspot managers trying to micro
manage their time so they can tick their little kpi boxes
 
Depends what the police did. If they couldn't find serial numbers then there was nothing to compare against their stolen motor list. Did they then assume its not traceable and therefore not detectable as stolen or made from stolen parts?

Did we ever find an engine number? If it's missing by force then it too has been hiden on purpose which is suspect.

How would the dvla react to this. I assume its the registered keepers responsibility to make sure the log book is correct. Are the weights correct on it?

How will the mot tester check the vin number at mot time if there isn't one?

In the OP's defence... it's not in his interest to prove it's stolen or made from stolen parts. If he does then it will be taken from him.

Also his insurance could be invalid if he has a crash and they check the identity of said vehicle. Repair workshops always check the vin number.

The motor does not need a stamped chassis just that little vin plate for an mot.
New galvanised chassis don’t have numbers.
the OP does not have a galv chassis. So the number has been removed to hide/hinder identification.
 
Quite the opposite. The police have to investigate stolen vehicles, even after they have had their identities potentially changed. If they didn’t, they would not be fighting the growing market for stolen vehicles and parts. Yes, investigate the thefts but also those who knowingly buy stolen vehicles and parts, which drives the increasing Land Rover theft problem.
How about another idea, I think in the UK if a car is written off before it can go back on the road it has to have its identity check to prove it is not a ringer, how about extending this to any used car that is sold say a test at £100 which checks all the details, if the engine number does not match it is changed with DVLA if engine is stolen or from stolen car then police informed if car is like this land rover then they should have the expertise to unpick it, If the police stop a car they do not think is correct they can demand the owner has it tested, system is self funding (well motorist pays so nothing new there)
 
The motor does not need a stamped chassis just that little vin plate for an mot.
New galvanised chassis don’t have numbers.
the OP does not have a galv chassis. So the number has been removed to hide/hinder identification.
I was considering buying some stamps and punching in the original VIN number on my new galv chassis before painting it, had issues in the past with classic vehicles where the VIN number could not be found or it was in some inaccessible place, nothing dodgy just good old fashioned age.
 
Always thought the replacement chassis needed a stamp. Oh well.

Put a ban on any vehicle without a correct original chassis stamp. Ban chassis swaps. Put these checks in the mot. Include engine number check anorl. If either fail then its an mkt fail.

That eould rid the world more tratters faster. @ming

The police do care but they're constantly being pulled into rubbish stuff. Like wasting time with drunks while pubs/clubs profit from alcohol sales.

Its said 40% of police time is used on motoring stuff. Tory cuts have reduced numbers so they're thinner spread.
 
I agree, am trying to get them to correct a typo on one of my classic cars V5's, not the VIN plate which is correct, and a year later still getting more and more forms to fill out asking for more pictures and information.
All it is is the build location code at the end of the V5 which for every vehicle built at abingdon is G rather than the 9 on the V5, they all say G! so it is obviosly a transcription error or typo.
DVLA make much bigger cockups than a single digit...
About eight years ago i needed a car NOW so i went on ebay and looked for something cheap with tax and mot. I spotted a Seat Ibiza SDi 1.9.
I went to collect it, paid the guy cash and brought it home.
He gave me the V5 to post off to DVLA. Later that night i was filling in my part to pop into an envelope and noticed that it said it was a five door TDi. I thought it said on ebay that it was a TWO door SDi? I know i'd locked the front doors, but couldn't remember if i'd locked the rear doors...
As it was gone 11pm and about -3 degrees i decided i'd chance it and check in the morning.
The next morning i went outside and looked at the car. It had only TWO doors. I popped the bonnet and removed the engine cover that had in large letters either 1.9 SDi or just SDi on it. I then checked the manifold for any signs of a turbo. There wasn't one. TDi has one, SDi doesn't!
Next i checked the VIN and engine numbers against the numbers on the V5. Thankfully they all checked out.
So happy that i didn't need to lock the back doors i went back in the house to grab my phone and out again to take pictures of the engine cover, the exhaust manifold, the VIN, the engine number and views from front, back and sides. Printed off copies put them into an envelope along with a letter explaining that some details were wrong on the V5 and please see enclosed pics. I gave them my home phone number, mobile number and email address so that if they had any questions they could contact me quickly and not have to rely on snail mail. I also told them that the pics were copies and they didn't need to be returned.
About four weeks later a new V5 arrived with the mistakes rectified. I had been expecting problems if i'm honest, but there weren't any. A couple of weeks later a second envelope arrived from DVLA with my pics and a DVLA 'with compliments' slip.
Maybe you should have told them there were several or bigger mistakes and not just a wrong letter?
 
When I replaced my chassis I just asked for the bit of the old one with the number on to be cut out and retained, it was then kept in case of questions being asked in the future. :)
If i was going to replace a chassis i'd just re stamp the original number.
I know people who own old Lotus Elans can buy a new replacement chassis made by a company called Spyder and all of the forums tell people NOT TO TELL DVLA if they replace their old rotten chassis with a Spyder one. They're all built to original LOTUS spec, or as near as damn it, but for some reason DVLA had it in their head that they should now issue you with a Q plate.
 
DVLA make much bigger cockups than a single digit...
The one for the six pot 109 I am currently rebuilding has some doozies in it, including the info that it is a 3 door hatchback and has the build year out by 3 years and says it is a 4 pot despite the original six pot engine and number being correct on the vehicle and the heritage cert.
I still have all this to come to sort out.
 
pulling my hair out with this one!
 

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If the police have said that is not stolen, they are incompetent. Your Land Rover WILL BE STOLEN. It is clearly a factory 300tdi, you can see the remains of the visible VIN in one of your pictures. It needs a specialist stolen vehicle examiner to look at it, to work out it's true identity. There is no way that someone has chucked a Series 3 identity onto it for free tax, as it would be worth a lot more on its proper ID when sold.
Don't fool yourself it is STOLEN..
It's not just tax free, I'm sure we all have that moment when we drop our Landie off for its MOT where we worry what the emissions are going to look like, particularly the old TDI owners.
If I were less honest, and had a scrap Historic Vehicle, and a decent if not MOT worthy newer vehicle, I could see the sense in swapping the newer one onto the ID that meant no more MOTs...
But it COULD be stolen. Just that isn't the only explanation.
 
It's not just tax free, I'm sure we all have that moment when we drop our Landie off for its MOT where we worry what the emissions are going to look like, particularly the old TDI owners.
If I were less honest, and had a scrap Historic Vehicle, and a decent if not MOT worthy newer vehicle, I could see the sense in swapping the newer one onto the ID that meant no more MOTs...
But it COULD be stolen. Just that isn't the only explanation.
You can come up with as many theories as you want, but it is a stolen 300tdi.
 
You can come up with as many theories as you want, but it is a stolen 300tdi.
It's academic whether it is or isn't if the police aren't interested, and if the potential theft took place 20 years ago, as would seem to the case if it is stolen. The owner has done the right thing and reported it, the only thing left to do is sort out the V5 so it's otherwise all legal.
 
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