Spotted at speed

tc4332 · #1 9th October 2015, 09:08 AM

I was in the bus driving away from the school that I service and some ten cars in front of me whilst waiting at a roundabout a rather nice looking black 8 "shot" across the junction. Not dangerously just fast but within the speed limit (just).
I was thinking "Wow, that is nice" then the light dawned, it was mine.
SWMBO was having a bit of fun

Finally caught her out

I phoned her and asked where she was, reply was "On the way to work"
"OK" says I " but where are you at the moment?"
"Just across the island at Marus Bridge" came back.
"YES I saw you" was my reply.
"OOOOOOPs" came back.

Don't you love it when you catch them out. And I had a grandstand view from the bus!!!!!

Johnmed · #2 9th October 2015, 11:41 AM

Ha. Nice work. Good job she answered honestly or this thread may have taken a different path!!!

"Hi Honey,.. Err,.. Yes I'm at my parents, not with my Yoga instructor in your car... He's not driving us both. No no".

paulrstaylor · #3 9th October 2015, 05:13 PM

I had a similar experience once with an S4, I was driving the dealer courtesy car while mine was in for service, saw my car do a standing start like it had been stolen and way in excess of the speed limit, phone call to the service manager and he told me it was on a ramp.

It wasn't until I threatened to call tracker he admitted that it was "on a road test", needless to say I didn't pay and I never went back!

tc4332 · #4 9th October 2015, 06:50 PM

Somewhat similiar.
Our works 8 was in for a service and a gearbox check.
Our tracker system showed it pottering around Preston, Lancs when it was supposed to be in St Helens, near Warrington.
We checked the log and found it had been doing 101 mph on the northbound M6 prior to this. Then whilst we were watching it went south on the M6 at 106 mph.
We contacted the garage and they said it was on it's way to the gearbox specialist in Preston for research into the suspect gearbox.
Turns out that the fitter that was taking it there lived in Preston so he was doing the grand tour around friends and relations showing off.
The garage owner reported that the fitter had been reprimanded.
Needless to say they will not be seeing any of our vehicles again.

ainarssems · #5 9th October 2015, 07:00 PM

I have never left any of my cars at any garage without me sitting there and waiting for job to be done. But then again I mostly only go to garages for MOT or tyre change, the rest apart from bodywork I do myself and I am not bothered about bodywork much anyway so I don't get any bodywork done anyway.

Norretal · #6 9th October 2015, 07:38 PM

While on this subject, a mate of mine had his RS4 in to a local dealer (Wearside Audi) for a recall on a headlamp washer defect. He went to collect and found 50 extra miles had been added, they insisted it needed to be road tested......he's never been back of course

snapdragon · #7 10th October 2015, 10:19 AM

About 10 years ago, my friends wife got home and said to him, I just saw the valet taking the car (new D3 3.0TDI) but he was driving rather fast. He said, What valet? looked outside and the car was missing. The front door hadn't latched properly and they took the keys off the hall table.

A few days later, someone about 5 miles away living on a main road reported the car to the Police as it was parked on someone living opposite's drive but they were on benefits' and they thought it was suspicious.
It took two more days for the Police to go round and find it despite it being reported stolen and the man giving the reg no.

Delboy · #8 10th October 2015, 11:06 AM

Thats ridiculous, one the idiot thief who thought no one would notice, two the police taking two days to respond.

I would be raging if the police took two days to respond to anything getting stolen let alone a car like that.

ainarssems · #9 10th October 2015, 11:31 AM

Talking about police, my number plates were stolen once. Police just said thank you for reporting and said it's either kids or or somebody with a old van who will put them on to fill up petrol and drive away without paying and that I have nothing to worry about now that I have reported theft. I asked if I can get another number now as somebody might put it on another S8 and get parking, speeding fines or worse crash, rob a bank or kill somebody and licence plate numbers will come back to me. They said DVLA will not issue new number just because it was stolen and now that I have reported theft I have nothing to worry about. That was some 5 years ago and I have not heard any bad news back since. If I ever get caught by speeding camera I can just say it was not me, must have been whoever stole my plates years ago.

In Latvia for example every set of number plates is issued by equivalent of DVLA and each number is issued only once so if your plate gets lost, stolen or damaged you get different number on replacement plates.

moltuae · #10 10th October 2015, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by ainarssems

In Latvia for example every set of number plates is issued by equivalent of DVLA and each number is issued only once so if your plate gets lost, stolen or damaged you get different number on replacement plates.

Interesting. Sounds like a better system.

My dad received a speeding ticket a few years ago, relating to a camera in London (he hadn't even been there). The ticket described the offending vehicle as a van. The van was displaying his registration and, despite his car being a completely different vehicle (a B class Merc), he had a hard time convincing the police it wasn't him. In this case they hadn't stolen his plates, they just happened to chose his reg number when they had their fake plates made.

If I remember correctly, when he tried to sort the matter out, the police told him it was a DVLA issue (and refused to do anything about it) and the DVLA told him it was a police issue.