AFAIK people steal plates for several reasons:
- To steal petrol by doing a drive away
- For use in other crimes where they wanted to use a car
- To "clone" a similar car so the original owner of the plates receives all the speeding & parking fines.
I believe the latter can be quite a nuisance, forcing the original owner to get new (different) plates and lots of arguments along the lines of: "It wasn't me ..."
2017 MY18 Golf R 7.5 Wolfsburg wagon (boring white) delivered 21 Sep 2017, 2008 Octavia vRS wagon 2.0 TFSI 6M (bright yellow), 2006 T5 Transporter van 2.5 TDI 6M (gone but not forgotten).
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