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How to identify a car with a counterfeit chassis number

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Part: Checks and maintenance

The chassis number of a vehicle is very important: when purchasing a used vehicle, you should always check it against the registration document to ensure it is not a counterfeit chassis. Unfortunately, there are cases where the chassis numbers of damaged and irrecoverable vehicles are replaced with those of stolen vehicles to put them back on the road. Naturally, they no longer come with the registration document, but the likelihood of someone checking them is low unless there is a vehicle inspection or you are stopped by the police. Another important document is the certificate of ownership, which tells us who owns the vehicle and the number of previous owners. To see who it has truly passed through, you need to check the back of the registration document, if the previous owner was honest. Because it is always possible to file a report, and then the document appears to have had no transfers (but they are recorded in the Certificate of Ownership). Then, from the Certificate of Ownership, it is important to verify if there are any mortgages; however, from there, we cannot see if there are any administrative seizures. To check this, we need to perform a search. Now, the Certificate of Ownership is digitised for new registrations, compared to the video, but the checks to be made are exactly the same; nothing has changed.

Updated on 13 July 2026 by ScegliAuto

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