Hiding your vin number ?
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Hiding your vin number ?
I have 03 civic and i want to hide my vin number from anyone that looks at my car whille its locked up. Like the one my the front windsheild? I heard storys of peeps getting vin numbers and going to honda and getting the key and there goes your car! So I want to hide mine but cant figure out how to get baCK there!?
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One thing you can use is black electrical tape. In California at least it's not illegal to cover your vin its just illegal to remove it. Good Luck!
One thing you can use is black electrical tape. In California at least it's not illegal to cover your vin its just illegal to remove it. Good Luck!
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Rep Power: 0 lol, I have my vin number etched into all my windows, doors, panels. supposed to be a security measure. 
All i ask is that if you steal my car, please total it out. set it on fire or something... Gap insurance is cool, NEW CAR!
All i ask is that if you steal my car, please total it out. set it on fire or something... Gap insurance is cool, NEW CAR!
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Originally posted by kyle4583
isnt your vin located in several other spots on the car?
isnt your vin located in several other spots on the car?
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Rep Power: 394 Get an alarm that when you put the key in the door, it goes off, that is what mine does. I thought it would be illegal to cover your VIN number. It's there for a reason.
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Originally posted by lid6662
I have 03 civic and i want to hide my vin number from anyone that looks at my car whille its locked up. Like the one my the front windsheild? I heard storys of peeps getting vin numbers and going to honda and getting the key and there goes your car! So I want to hide mine but cant figure out how to get baCK there!?
I have 03 civic and i want to hide my vin number from anyone that looks at my car whille its locked up. Like the one my the front windsheild? I heard storys of peeps getting vin numbers and going to honda and getting the key and there goes your car! So I want to hide mine but cant figure out how to get baCK there!?
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Rep Power: 343 yea but that's one way to steal your car. and if u hide ur vin number it'd confound the efforts right? so therefore i don't think it's gay. plus it takes like a minute to cover it up anyway.
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Rep Power: 288 just wondering, if a guy takes the time to get a key made with the immobilizer code correct and everything, wont that take time. and for that to work, hes gonna have to monitor you all the time to see where you go so he could steal your car when youre not there. i think its just not the best way to steal a car if you had to. the process is just tooo long. also i dont hink the current generation of civics have any "hot" parts on it.
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lol wtf damn u mst live in major ghetto get respect from peeps and then dont worry i live in ghetto, fl and noone ****s with my car....
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lol wtf damn u mst live in major ghetto get respect from peeps and then dont worry i live in ghetto, fl and noone ****s with my car....
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It took me three times to read this post, to understand what the HELL you were trying to say!
People that can't type for beans ANNOY ME!!
In the future, please use PUNCTUATION and CAPS so that people understand WTF you're trying to say!!!
My old roommate used to be a repo man, he said his favorite method of jacking a car was to get the VIN and have a key made. If all else failed he would pound a screwdriver into the ignition or simply tow it.
wow I never knew other people did that. Back when I volunteered at the hospital, most of the cars in the doctors parking deck covered theres. So I started doing it with all the cars in my family.
I used to put a slip of paper that I wrote "Please steal someone else's car. I worked hard for mine" over it. Didn't stop door denters, and I think it attracts attention, so now I just put a piece of black construction paper there in big public lots (mall, groceries, or more 'urban' areas).
I used to put a slip of paper that I wrote "Please steal someone else's car. I worked hard for mine" over it. Didn't stop door denters, and I think it attracts attention, so now I just put a piece of black construction paper there in big public lots (mall, groceries, or more 'urban' areas).
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