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Banged up vehicle parts create din, unfortunately (12)

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I believe the answer is:

incarcerated

'banged up' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'vehicle parts create din unfortunately' is the wordplay.
'vehicle' becomes 'car' (car is a kind of vehicle).
'parts' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in the sense of cuts or separates).
'unfortunately' is an anagram indicator (a bad or unfortunate spelling).
'create'+'din'='createdin'
'createdin' is an anagram of 'incerated'.
'car' put within 'incerated' is 'INCARCERATED'.

(Other definitions for incarcerated that I've seen before include "Locked up" , "Banged up" , "Imprisoned" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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