Advice needed on damaged ute repair

[jennie285]

I dont know if that is correct.
Re-birthing is where a legit (possibly damaged) vehicles identity is used on another stolen vehicle to make the stolen one look like the legit one.
What was suggested above is you are taking a damaged chassis and replacing the majority of it except the part with the number. No number or identity ever changes vehicles. There is no fraud because nothing with numbers changes.
I read somewhere, here I think, that in some states if a vehicle needs to have the chassis replaced the repairer is to re-stamp the replacement chassis with the old number.

I see a can of worms being opened here.

the number just needs to be stamped with a P for Police after putting a different chassis under a car due to breakage...

[wbute]

I would say you would get away with it only because the number hasnt changed on the rego papers, but that is how you change the chassis number on a stolen car so it is rebirthing. Take a legit number and cut it into a stolen chassis and swap the tags and the vehicle is rebirthed.
Why would you do it though? Not much to be gained from keeping a HZ ute matching numbers anyway. A Sandman maybe.

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They were stamping blank Chassis' from Holden, not previously stamped chassis'.

[playwme]

Why would you do it though? Not much to be gained from keeping a HZ ute matching numbers anyway.

Exactly. Lot of work cutting and welding if it makes no difference to the value. Much easier to just slot another Chassis under it.