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Originally Posted by Turbo95eg6

Only thing I could think of is some kind of insurance scam… Maybe their intent was to back into you while parked, then accuses you of rear ending them. Lesson learned is to never pull over for anyone unless it's the police.

Originally Posted by strat61caster

You know, I went to buy a car once, wrote down the VIN in the process of checking it out. I told the guy I was going to look up the VIN before making an offer.

He told me no, get the hell out you cannot have the VIN off this car. I asked why, he said it was because I could get keys for the car from a dealership and steal it.

Car was obviously a salvage title, in a bad rear end accident and he was flipping it to make a quick buck after fixing it up with 20 lbs of bondo and a sledgehammer. If I ran the VIN it would have confirmed it. Thought the guy was going to shoot me cause I took down the VIN, immediately handed him the paper I wrote it down on and walked away. If he got his asking price he would probably have gotten $2-$4k profit depending on how much labor went into it.

People are dumb and have lots of misconceptions. They probably couldn't do anything with the VIN of importance to your life but at the same time it was weird, sketchy, and I probably would have said no out of dumbfounded confusion as well. Just sneak a picture next time you see your daughter if that's the case.

Sorry for the ramble.

God if all it took was a VIN to get keys cut then everybody with a North American car made after about 1990 should worry since by law the VIN must be visible from outside the car on the drivers side of the dash.