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A legal way to swap a dash
Topic Started: Nov 18 2010, 02:23 AM (1,177 Views)
superduty5.9
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I was thinking about this the other day. The vin tag is attached to the dash pad. If you get one from the JY it will have the wrong VIN plate unless you change it and that's illegal.

I (cough cough) I mean a friend did this years ago to a chevy truck. Take a dremel with a cutoff wheel and cut off the lower part of the 2 rivets that hold on the VIN plate. With the truck it was on a ledge by the windshield not the dash. Now take the VIN plate and the top part of the rivets and super glue them to the ledge. The reason for this was the cab came from a JY without a title so to make it appear to be legal this had to be done.

With a Metro it is part of the dash and if you wanted to change the dash you would have to do the same thing to be legal and not at the same time! Any thoughts on this?
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Rooy


I don't see a big deal with replacing the tag so it's correct, especially since you're not actually changing the car's VIN. The VIN is also on the car in a couple other spots: sticker on the door jamb and stamped into the firewall.
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superduty5.9
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Yea I don't either but legally you can not even think about touching a VIN plate. A VIN plate is for life and legally can not be altered. Any cars found to be altered face destruction.

It doesn't matter to me, I just wanted to see what you guys thought.
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nerys
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there is no way its illegal to swap a dash. worst case leave the vin plate alone and CUT that chunk out of your old dash and toss it in the glove box.

the intent of that law is to ALTER/DEFACE the vin. what your doing is RESTORING the correct vin.
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