There’s a big difference between driving your car around town and posting a picture of your plates or VIN on the internet. If your don’t understand that, you don’t understand the internet very well.
Sure, anyone can see your plates driving around. And anyone could see your VIN when you’re parked at the grocery store. Or take pictures of either, or follow you home. But they have to see the car. You have to physically be in the same place. Even if you drive your car a lot, how many people see it long enough to record your plates or VIN? Hundreds? Thousands? How many of them are even paying attention? How many of them even know what they’re looking at? And the real question, how many of them are criminals in the auto theft/fraud world?
When you post a picture of your car and plate or VIN on the internet, it’s there for MILLIONS of people to see. And worse, it’s
searchable. So, if some dirtbag is looking for a specific car, they just google what they want. And there your car is with a plate and VIN in a picture in front of your house. If you google ‘71 Dart GT pictures of my cars come up on the first page.
And having your car stolen isn’t the only problem. People can use that VIN to forge a title. Or fake a VIN plate or fender tag or stamping and get a real title. Rare sure but it does happen. And if that car gets exposed as a re body, stolen, whatever, guess who’s VIN is tagged? Yeah, yours.
It take me 10 seconds to edit my plates and VINs out of the pictures I post. It’s just good practice. Like not putting your social security card in your wallet. Yeah, maybe nothing comes of it. But if something does happen, you’d better believe it’s gonna be a pain in the ***. So why put out more information than you have to? I mean, you can’t stop it. Your information is out there, no matter how careful you are. But the more you put out there, the easier it is for something bad to happen.
Come get it.
My tag should help you find it.
In all honesty if my car does ever get taken I'm sure it will be on a flat bed and not a joy ride.
Ain't that the truth. The flat bed part, that is.
The professionals are the ones you need to worry about, and yeah, they’re not gonna fire it off and drive it away. They’re gonna wheel dolly it over to a flat bed and you’re not gonna hear them go. Not saying joy riders don’t happen, but that’s a heck of a lot easier to stop.
