Hey what do you do if you just bought a car and a week later you found out it had no vin plate by the dash, inside.

Is it legal for a small dealer to sell a car with no vin.

what can i do

how can i get a vin plate, **** i'll just ribbit that **** in myself

dam i got screwed

 

Did you talk to the dealer? What did they say?

 

the vin should be printed on your regristration and if all esle fails if you look closey on the firewall its printed somewhere near the top.

 

I believe it is printed on the sticker on the driver's side door jam too.

Seems pretty shady that the VIN plate is missing. Look into it, though, I am sure you will. lol

 

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yea it's there too

 

Yeah I mean inside the engine bay is the matching vin as the title but we all know this cars been theft.

Just want to know if it's legal for dealers to sell cars with no vin on the dash cause thats where pigs check first.

oh and what can I do now, the dealer dont give a **** and I drove like 400K to buy my dream oh I mean nightmare car.

I still love it though

 

call the DMV and ask them

 

will they be able to send me a vin plate and how much..........but im sure nobody would know cause they wouldnt make that stupid mistake i did

anyways more help please

 

instead of waiting for replys you could call the dmv lol

 

I would collect all of your personal belongings out of it just in case it is a stolen car. The police will impund it and take everything with it.

Just to be safe.

 

that is very illegal to remove vin #'s off of pieces in cars, that is exactly what thieves do so cops cant track parts back to the original car, i would return the car

 

check the top of the firewall, about the middle of the car. it should be easily visible (you may have to wipe away some grease to see it clearly). if you don't have that, or it's scratched out, there's no doubt you've probably got a stolen car.

either way, not having a vin plate is very, very bad and no one will make another one for you. has insurance seen your car yet? if they ever want to take pics, they are going to want pictures of the vin plate, and when it's not there (or they see it's been tampered with) they are going to freak out.

return that car

 

dash vin isnt that important, as long as u have the engine bay one which is the most permanent it seems like u should be fine, i'm running my car on the street with no dash, stopped at a couple stoplights next to cops, even went to the irvine police department to report my car being keyed, the cop took pictures with no dash and said nothing, ur fine, old dash could have been totally fucked up and this was a replacement....

 

There should be VIN stickers on all the original body parts (i.e. door, fender, bumpers, trunk) There should be at least one part of your car that is original.

Definitely go to the DMV

 

Did you ever get this resolved?

My vin plate got cut when modifying the dash to fit the rollcage. I am not planning on registering the car but in case I do I would like the VIN plate intact.

Just curious if you have any info for me

 

back from the dead.
the vin plate inside isnt as important as the others. if anyone needs a vin # they look inside the door anyways. its very easy to replace the inside vin # with another plate, but the replace the sticker is near impossible.

 

Well, I have seen a cop absolutely flip out on someone for having their VIN plate covered (not removed, just had some stuff over it). Of course this is PDX...home of one of the worst PD's in the country (ask the FBI haha).

I was also told the car would not be registerable w/o that plate on the dash (although I don't know that to be true or not).

Is this something I could theoretically get replaced at a dealer, or should I just forget about it and take my chances?

 

take your chances. since when does the DMV care about your vin plate?

 

you should definitely go back to the guy who sold it to you, and confront him. More than likely it wasn't an accident!

 

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Well, I am thinking you would fail the VIN inspection which is required for registration? (Dunno if you guys have VIN inspections out there).

 

Check you driver's doorjamb. I had an Accord that was a theft recovery with no dash VIN. There was a metal DMV replacement VIN plate in the doorjamb.

 

You deffinitaly want all your VIN #'s on the car to match. The dash, the firewall and the door jam. If they don't match or are missing, there's a good chance your car's been wrecked and put back together in some shady bodyshop. I work at an auto auction and see it pretty often. Just my 0.02