Blurring License Plates

Could someone please explain why most people here don’t like to have their license plates in photos posted online?

You drive around on the streets with them, don’t you? Your plates get a lot more exposure doing that than you ever would even on a board 100 times the size of this.

Maybe I’m just missing something.

Please, no ignorance.

uhm, many of us will take ANY AND ALL precautions to keep our cars in our possesion.

I personally always keep a paper in front of my VIN # as well.

You do know that’s a $300 ticket, i’ve gotten it twice.

Cops fiend coverd VIN’s

insurance, esp if the pic is of doing something proscribed by law.

With people having their policies cancelled after simply ASKING insurance co’s if they can mod their cars, people don’t like to have their car’s identifiable to anyone.

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. There’s no way that anybody from insurance visits SON or even the Internet period to book people.

I guess people just don’t like to take any chances and I can understand why.

… or maybe some people are just skurred of getting stalked or having their cars stolen.

You do know that’s a $300 ticket, i’ve gotten it twice.

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link to offense? I cant find it in the hta (i covered my vin, too, with electrical tape)

I would think that you could contest that in court by explaining and showing that there has been a high rate of theft of your paticular vehicle and you do not wish people to be able to trace its home location.

VIN# I can understand, it’s easy to look up someone’s address, etc.

Plate: Insurance - OK Maybe, but I have a feeling an insurance company would hang up on you if you tried to call in someones license plate - and thats if you could figure out what company they are with.

Plate: Stalking? What? :slight_smile: Maybe there are resources out there that I don’t know of - but if you can figure out anything about a person via their plate I’d definitely like to know about it.

You do know that’s a $300 ticket, i’ve gotten it twice.

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Funny of the 8 cops who’ve seen it none mentioned it, it just sits there its not fixed or anything. HTA offence #?

Oh and plates, they’re easy to run, know a lawyer?

^^^ Really?

I don’t have the offence numbers or any info on it in the HTA.

This was last year but both cops were super ignorant and just felt like while they had me rack up the tickets.

Both were Obststruction of something…

the reason people blur plates is not because of insurance…

its because it is extremly easy if you know what your doing to find the address, name, car info, etc, and ontop of that the theif is easily able to look at whats done to your car which saves them the trouble of scouting out your car. Theives track cars they want to steal by licence plates incase you didnt know.

ive had a parking pass over my vin since 2003 and been pulled over many times with no problems, but now i have 2.5% tint covering my avcr and vin on the front window.

so crazy FUKS like speedNRG dont stalk you!!!

BAN.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

When i was on the RX7 forums, i heard of a guy who had his rx stolen. The thief had a contact who worked at the Mazda dealership, got the guys license plate, VIN and all that stuff, and had keys made.

Dunno how that works exactly. :?:

quite easily, there is a key code in your glove box,

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you can get keys made from vins on hondas and acuras if you have the right hookups at dealers

so I’m not overly paranoid…just cautious, I’ve been tellng that shrink for years… :shock:

Maybe she’s just a really big F&F fan … ?

She seems easily confused.

Reminds me a lot of this creepy chick I used to see at the Zoo bar back in its day (it’s the Zen lounge now for all you youths). She used to walk around in a really dirty wedding dress with glazed over eyes asking if you were her fiancé.

I think people would be more likely to just follow you while you’re driving around than go through all the trouble of finding a license plate through the DMV and tracking you down. I mean, all you have to do is check the “Event” section, and find cars there and follow follow them home.

And why make a key? It’s not like stealing a car is hard. Most thefts are actually tow jobs anyway. No one thinks a car being towed is suspicious.

And most of these elaborate theft stories you read about online are insurance scams. One guy parts the car, uses the bits he needs, pops the tags and crushes it. Guy that supplied the car waits a bit, phones it in as stolen. Combs the boards, demanding it be found. “Has anyone seen this car?”

Dude gets parts car, other dude gets insurance money. Not a bad way to get rid of an “ooopsed” car or something blown up.

yea I know a lawyer. You’re telling me if I call my lawyer friend he can get information from a license plate for me? Are you sure? I’ve never heard of lawyers having access to classified information.

Meh, you can get the key code though vin too on nissans. We do it all the time and work except they want ownership when you ask.

No they don’t have MTO access, but the people who, uhm do stuff for them do, ask your lawyer friend, he’ll know what I mean,

Like when they need to get someone documents, but don’t know where they live…tell him this part…

rather not discuss it… :wink: