Do You Cover Your Dash VIN?
Racer
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 439
Likes: 1
From: Los Angeles Ca
If you're comfortable giving your real identity out online, that's fine. But if you want to say things in public that you would not sign with your real name, or if you discuss street racing, emissions tampering, or just troll or goof around the Internet while you're supposed to be working, covering your plate is not a bad idea. It's like a condom for your identity; she might get pregnant on the 99th time but maybe you don't get clap from that other skank.
/QED
/QED
OpenVPN on
Bag over head
Vin covered
I am safe all I am missing is a bubble.
Racer
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 349
Likes: 7
From: San Diego CA
Hey, some dumb drunken comments I made in Usenet 20 years ago still haunt me since I didn't know better than use my real name. And think about this: I've seen kids using pictures of other guys' cars online and bragging how they were street racing or some such nonsense. Cops and snitches lurk in the forums. Better paranoid than tazered, bro.
But back to the topic: covering the VIN plate is pretty useless.
Race Director
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 12,331
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Growing up I think we all know or have heard of unsavory individuals. I grew up in Spanish Harlem in NYC and the south side of Chicago 71st and Peoria and I knew guys who did this for a "living" lol. When a car is spotted they want they already know everything about the car and some surveillance nothing high tech.
Now for high profile cars, like Corvettes (C6 Z's ZR1s), Ferrari, and such there is a lot more time and effort is involved. Usually those rings are into multimillion dollar heists and a lonely C5 Corvettes are not what they are after or looking for.
in my opinion you and every other c5 owner is safe out there more trouble than the car is worth.
Now for high profile cars, like Corvettes (C6 Z's ZR1s), Ferrari, and such there is a lot more time and effort is involved. Usually those rings are into multimillion dollar heists and a lonely C5 Corvettes are not what they are after or looking for.
in my opinion you and every other c5 owner is safe out there more trouble than the car is worth.
Race Director
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St. Jude Donor '12-'13-'14
Instructor
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 134
Likes: 0
From: Indiana
How would they duplicate the signal from the fob on C6's? I know you can open the hatch on coupes to gain access but what about verts?
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Oldtimer
I hope the folks who cover their VIN vary their drive home every day so that someone doesn't follow you to see where you live. I spent over three decades in law enforcement and never saw a Vette stolen by someone who copied the VIN and had a duplicate key made. If someone wants to steal your car badly enough, they'll get it regardless of what precautions you take. 
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