Guide To Car Data Checks
VIN (Chassis number)
Many consumers use motoring organisations such as the RAC and the AA for a physical vehicle check and a history check and a data check can be used at this time to back up the vehicle's identity and to confirm the vehicles identity using the vehicle identification number V.I.N. or chassis number by performing a VIN check, this means locating the vin number and looking closely at the tag itself, making sure that it is original and no one has tampered with the plate, also the number will be imbedded into the vehicle, again make sure that this looks original and has no visible punch holes or markings around the identification number, some motorcycles have this number or frame number for bikes, on the forks or under the seat of the motorcycle, off course you must also check that the numbers match the V5 or V5c registration document or "log book".
Cloning
If a car has been seriously damaged as a category A B or C then, within the last few months the vehicle will have to go through a Vehicle Identity Check known as a VIC check carried out at various centres throughout mainland UK, this is a government initiative to help reduce the amount of cloned vehicles in mainland GB, the majority of cloned vehicle come from using the identity of a seriously accident damaged vehicle, and a vehicle is usually stolen with the vin or chassis number and of course the registration number, changed to mirror the accident damaged vehicle. It is the most serious form of vehicle fraud and the most difficult to detect as the prospective purchaser will carry out a data check using the registration details of the written off or scrapped vehicle, and off course this will not show up as a stolen vehicle, the next thing the new "owner" will be aware is when he has a visit from the Police and the car re-possessed, you will lose the vehicle and almost certainly the money if you cannot trace who you bought the car from, probably long gone.
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