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Re: Is there a way to locate a car by vin?
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09/17/21 09:52 PM
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Before anyone chimes in with the suggestion to contact insurance companies and ask if they have any info, I can tell you not to waste your time trying. They won't tell you a thing. They won't help, but they DO have it. Even VON records. Even if they have vin data for all the cars they’ve insured, it might not be accurate. I just went around in circles for a week with Autotrader trying to figure out why the ad I submitted for my 09 Challenger only showed pending and never would go live. Finally they determined the vin I’d given with my listing wasn’t a valid vin. Huh? I’d copied my vin info off of my State Farm policy which was by my desk, rather than go out to the garage to take it off the car itself. I then checked the cars VIN and sure enough, one digit didn’t match what was listed on my insurance policy. They had an 8 where an H was correct. So apparently I’ve been insured for 12 years with an invalid VIN for my car. You’d think they’d check insured VINs for accuracy, Autotrader apparently has a way to do that? Customers provide the VIN to the insurance company. Sometimes, the customer is wrong. Sometimes, the person at the insurance company makes a typo. On the phone, "Eight" and "H" sound similar, and that would be an easy mistake to make. Either way, it doesn't have any impact on your insurance premiums, etc., so why spend the time/money verifying the VIN?  If you have a claim, and the inspection of your vehicle finds a typo/error related to the VIN, the insurer will correct it. Typos/errors are easy to identify at that point. The bigger issue is when the VIN doesn't match at all. Here in Texas the VIN Better match with the insurance, the police cars have scanners that check license plates & if the car has insurance & also could not get the yearly registration because it would show no insurance for the correct vin
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Re: Is there a way to locate a car by vin?
[Re: not_a_charger]
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10/13/21 08:55 AM
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Thank you for all the suggestions. I have pretty much exhausted all options. I will continue my search. Here are a few pics of the car if you ever see it please let me know!
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Re: Is there a way to locate a car by vin?
[Re: not_a_charger]
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10/13/21 07:48 PM
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Typos happen, even in Texas. In KY that would get your registration revoked and you’d soon know it. Something like a warning letter at 30 days with active plate and vin not covered, 60 days registration revoked. Not sure if cops will show up, they weren’t wanting to do actual work was issue when law was being debated. But it will cause you trouble for sure as I dropped a truck I wasn’t using one time and didn’t scurrying the plate to the clerk. When I restarted it caused a penalty premium to be added to the policy because the database showed I had an active plate without covered for a period.
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Re: Is there a way to locate a car by vin?
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10/13/21 09:51 PM
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Kicking myself for selling a 1971 swinger a few years ago. Is there anyway to search a vin to find out where the car is located? Thanks Do you have family with yellow hemi Challenger in Akron area Car has 340 with bolt ons, and 727, gear drive?
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Re: Is there a way to locate a car by vin?
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10/14/21 05:57 AM
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Kicking myself for selling a 1971 swinger a few years ago. Is there anyway to search a vin to find out where the car is located? Thanks Do you have family with yellow hemi Challenger in Akron area Car has 340 with bolt ons, and 727, gear drive? I do not have any family down in that area. The car was originally out of Ohio though before I purchased it from a guy up in Caseville Michigan. But the details about the car you are describing are correct.
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Re: Is there a way to locate a car by vin?
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10/14/21 09:14 AM
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Kicking myself for selling a 1971 swinger a few years ago. Is there anyway to search a vin to find out where the car is located? Thanks Do you have family with yellow hemi Challenger in Akron area Car has 340 with bolt ons, and 727, gear drive? I do not have any family down in that area. The car was originally out of Ohio though before I purchased it from a guy up in Caseville Michigan. But the details about the car you are describing are correct. My brother owns it
69 Dart GTS A4 Silver All steel, flat factory hood, 3360race weight
418 BPE factory replacement headed stroker, 565 lift solid cam, footbrake street/strip car
1.41 best 60 foot
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Re: Is there a way to locate a car by vin?
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10/14/21 10:07 AM
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Kicking myself for selling a 1971 swinger a few years ago. Is there anyway to search a vin to find out where the car is located? Thanks Do you have family with yellow hemi Challenger in Akron area Car has 340 with bolt ons, and 727, gear drive? I do not have any family down in that area. The car was originally out of Ohio though before I purchased it from a guy up in Caseville Michigan. But the details about the car you are describing are correct. My brother owns it Well... My son would love to have that back in our garage if he wants to sell it please let me know. I would at least like to talk with him about it.
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