Fastfish408
Active Member
What are the draw backs of posting your VIN # on here? I would love to post and try to find my original 440? The warning said they will not be deleted?
What does the warning mean?
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chryslerfat
Well-Known Member
Think about it your VIN will be available to anyone with internet acess to possibly get a fraudulent title and end up taking the car from you. We live in a wicked world and cannot trust like we did in the past.
jos51700
Green Bearing thread connoisseur
I doubt it. Vin plates are visible on every car since like '71. It's easy to look in a window and get a VIN, and no state will issue a title on just possession of a VIN.
If you can do it, tell me how. There's a 6.4 Challenger down the street.
If you can do it, tell me how. There's a 6.4 Challenger down the street.
Fastfish408
Active Member
No doubt. So sad
chryslerfat
Well-Known Member
Post your VIN along with plate number for the crooks to see and then we will know. It should at least give them enough info. to come by your house and steal your car. Sorry but in todays world I trust no one on the internet.
rustycowll69
Well-Known Member
there was a similar instance in Seattle about 6mos ago. Some guy had his 68? Pontiac Firebird 400 (convertible? ) stolen from his garage. They put it on the local news, and it turned up about a month later. Somebody had gotten his VIN # and gotten anot her title in the thief's name, BEFORE it was stolen. Don't ask me about any details, it wasn't my car, I'm not really into Pontiacs, I've slept since then, and I don't know how it was done. It just was, and it was on the news.
451Cuda
Well-Known Member
Vin can be used to request current owner's name and address from that state's DMV. A thief might see a valuable car being advertised, use the vin to find out where it's stored, go break in at 3 am and either take the car/parts/tools. Just generally unwise to show it, plenty of scumbags out there that would think nothing of taking advantage.
Not in California any longer. New law...
chryslerfat
Well-Known Member
Think about this when we go to Secretary of State we go with just paperwork and no car. So use your printer and photoshop to make a fake title in the owners name that you got from the internet with the VIN. Now pay them to transfer the fake title into your name. Say you also live in another state far away. Go steal the car and bring it home and hide it in the garage as long as you want but it is now yours. Oh you say what if you get pulled over trailering it home just show the cop your new legit title.
jos51700
Green Bearing thread connoisseur
Nmvtis is THE national title registry. If they did do that to your car, they will be able to follow it to whatever address was claimed on the paperwork, no matter how far away.
That said, Missouri (and damn near every other state) will NOT release vehicle owner info to someone with a VIN, strictly because the VIN IS public knowledge. Think: if that was the case, you wouldn't have all these Mopar guys going through hoops to tie am engine to its original car or digging for years to find an original owner.
Most states won't release who the PREVIOUS owner was to the CURRENT owner!
Printing a fake title? Give me a break. Missouri is a **** hole back water state and we still have holograms, water marks, and every other methods of title counterfeit protection that US currency had five years ago.
Thieves are thieves, it's way easier and safer to steal a car the old fashioned way and chop it. You guys should be WAY more worried about someone pulling your house number from Google maps, walking into the courthouse and telling the state you sold it to them. Same rules, legal bs, and precautions apply.
That said, Missouri (and damn near every other state) will NOT release vehicle owner info to someone with a VIN, strictly because the VIN IS public knowledge. Think: if that was the case, you wouldn't have all these Mopar guys going through hoops to tie am engine to its original car or digging for years to find an original owner.
Most states won't release who the PREVIOUS owner was to the CURRENT owner!
Printing a fake title? Give me a break. Missouri is a **** hole back water state and we still have holograms, water marks, and every other methods of title counterfeit protection that US currency had five years ago.
Thieves are thieves, it's way easier and safer to steal a car the old fashioned way and chop it. You guys should be WAY more worried about someone pulling your house number from Google maps, walking into the courthouse and telling the state you sold it to them. Same rules, legal bs, and precautions apply.
Bulldozer
free ice cream sandwiches
You have a license plate on display for the whole world to see on every vehicle you own . That number contains your name , your address , your vehicles VIN number , year , make and model. So do you cover up your plate number when you take your car out? No , someone will call the cops on you because it looks suspicious. I will post all my VIN numbers and plate numbers all day long and I can promise nobody is going to show up at my house trying to steal my ****. That's just ludicrous.
adriver
Blazing Apostle
You can do anything with a VIN just as long as you don' t use the word "swap".
I wouldn't do it just a a matter of privacy.
With the internet, that word should be taken out of the dictionary.
I wouldn't do it just a a matter of privacy.
With the internet, that word should be taken out of the dictionary.
Up here in Ontario when you purchase you need to purchase a UVIP (used veh info pkg) before registering it in your name. OR you can use the UVIP to see how many owners the car has had. UVIP contains all prev registered Ontario owners names.
Walk in to our Licensing office with a vin and $20.
Walk in to our Licensing office with a vin and $20.
jos51700
Green Bearing thread connoisseur
Yeah but there's like fifteen people in the whole province and twelve of y'all are related, so there's no real worry there.
451Cuda
Well-Known Member
It has happened, but with high end stuff. I think our 50 year old A bodies are safe.
jos51700
Green Bearing thread connoisseur
Coming from a guy whose state sport is Polygamy?
Coming from a guy whose provincial sport is curling?
451Cuda
Well-Known Member
Lol no we're just good at it. Some hot females associated with it.Hockey is our provincial sport. Good at that too.
jos51700
Green Bearing thread connoisseur
Funny, I was just thinking the same thing about polygamy
Marcohotrod
Well-Known Member
just say you are looking for a 440, and give the last 6 of the vin. here in Mass the registry is not stupid-they do not give out info
I recently bought my 66 Barracuda from out of state, and when I went to title it and register for a license plate, they sent a state trooper out to verify the VIN number. A 66 does not have the now standard 17 digit type VIN, the trooper referenced a book he had with him and crawl all over the car checking stuff. The trooper would not let me see the book, either!
Hey at least he was thorough right?
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