Partial number plate search

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#320245 22-Jul-2025 18:04

Is there anyway to search online for a vehicle with only a partial license plate number? Someone rear ended me on the weekend, I started entering their details and rego number as a contact but didn't hit save 🤦🏻‍♀️ the guy rung me so I have his number but he is not replying to my txt message or returning my call. I know his name, type of car and first 3 letters of his license plate. Need his full rego so I don't have to pay excess on my insurance claim.

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#3396231 22-Jul-2025 18:10

Apart from crowdsourcing it via Facebook, nope :)

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#3396234 22-Jul-2025 18:29

Can your insurance company help? I believe (but not 100% sure) that they have authorised acess to the database of vehicle regos for the purpose of verifying info for insurance claims -- but not sure if this extends to the sort of search you are after. Still worth a call if you haven't already.

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#3396245 22-Jul-2025 20:11

Thankyou, they have rung him and left a message. But have told me if I don't provide his rego then I will have to pay the excess. So no doesn't sound like they can find his rego for me

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#3396262 22-Jul-2025 20:22

2 options, go through all 999 options in car jam for the plate

or pay the excess, let the insurance company go and find him, which they will as they will want their money from the other party or their insurance company. then get you excess back when they deem you not at fault.

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#3396263 22-Jul-2025 20:22

Police matter with an official report they may help

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#3396283 22-Jul-2025 21:02

Unless there's an injury accident the police aren't likely to do any investigation.

If you have a phone available use it to take a photo of the car before mucking about with note taking.

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#3396328 23-Jul-2025 06:32

Bung:

Unless there's an injury accident the police aren't likely to do any investigation.

If you have a phone available use it to take a photo of the car before mucking about with note taking.

Yeah I got rear ended last year, took photos of her car, my car, her licence etc.

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#3396399 23-Jul-2025 09:40

Write a small script to go through CarJam, then parse the data.

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#3396491 23-Jul-2025 11:11

Even knowing the full plate number, is not likely to achieve what you are hoping it will.....

I was rear ended a few months ago, and got all the details. (driver was uninsured)

The insurance company advised me, they will only wavy the excess, if

A) the other party admits fault AND they are able to recover the costs of repair from them.

(it sound your perpetrator is ghosting, - so unfortunately your likely to end up paying the excess.)

I had a different Incident in the recent past as well - and was unable to get details of the other party - I lodged the insident with the police,

Police replied via email that they had requested Traffic camera footage

I followed up a couple of times with Police, but got no further response from them either.......so had to pay the Excess then too....

(even know, neither insident was my fault...)

I wouldn't waste time with Carjam - there's a chance the address on there is out of date too.

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#3396495 23-Jul-2025 11:16

If there was damage to other vehicle, cruise passed some local panel beaters and see if you spot it?

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#3396496 23-Jul-2025 11:17

One issue with iterating via Carjam is you risk getting the wrong car if it was sold NZ New by any of the main dealers, part of a fleet, or registered on import on mass by the same importer and with similar cars.

The major dealers seem to get small batches of license plates from NZTA in advance of registration so they can speed up the delivery of new vehicles and the on roading processes, instead of only getting the plates as they process the registration. It's why you'll sometimes see very similar cars with only a single digit/etc difference (noticed it with my mum's last two cars, and also my last two cars).

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#3396499 23-Jul-2025 11:19

I'm betting Carjam would throttle scripted loading based on queries-per-sec-per-IP too.

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#3396510 23-Jul-2025 11:39

concordnz:

Even knowing the full plate number, is not likely to achieve what you are hoping it will.....

I was rear ended a few months ago, and got all the details. (driver was uninsured)

The insurance company advised me, they will only wavy the excess, if

A) the other party admits fault AND they are able to recover the costs of repair from them.

(it sound your perpetrator is ghosting, - so unfortunately your likely to end up paying the excess.)

I had a different Incident in the recent past as well - and was unable to get details of the other party - I lodged the insident with the police,

Police replied via email that they had requested Traffic camera footage

I followed up a couple of times with Police, but got no further response from them either.......so had to pay the Excess then too....

(even know, neither insident was my fault...)

I wouldn't waste time with Carjam - there's a chance the address on there is out of date too.

Long time ago now - maybe over ten years - but an uninsured driver caused an accident and our car was written off. I explained the situation over the phone then followed up with the claim form. The other driver didn't accept liability but it was a clear right of way fail by them. My insurer (AMI) accepted my story largely without question and I was not hit with the excess. I was however forced by the insurer to turn up at the small claims court so they could hit the other driver up for their costs (which they got as a drip fed over about 50 years!).

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#3396534 23-Jul-2025 12:44

BlakJak:

I'm betting Carjam would throttle scripted loading based on queries-per-sec-per-IP too.

Probably, but the request can be queued and managed.

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#3396558 23-Jul-2025 14:10

snj:

One issue with iterating via Carjam is you risk getting the wrong car if it was sold NZ New by any of the main dealers, part of a fleet, or registered on import on mass by the same importer and with similar cars.

The major dealers seem to get small batches of license plates from NZTA in advance of registration so they can speed up the delivery of new vehicles and the on roading processes, instead of only getting the plates as they process the registration. It's why you'll sometimes see very similar cars with only a single digit/etc difference (noticed it with my mum's last two cars, and also my last two cars).

Yeah I was driving around one day and happened to come across another car driving in opposite direction. It was same make, same model, same colour and his number plate was 1 number higher than mine. SR1094 vs SR1095

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