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A recommendation I heard recently to avoid some types of car theft is to cover your vehicle's VIN plate so potential thieves don't have ready access to the VIN. I would like to know:

  • Is it legal (in the USA) to cover your VIN plate?
  • Is it even useful to cover your VIN plate? Are the types of thefts enabled by having visual access to your car's VIN plate common enough that I should be worried about it?
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I live in Virginia, northern VA to be precise. The cops are sort of sticklers up here, compared to more rural parts of VA.

For quite some time, I've been keeping an assortment of papers/maps wedged against the windshield on my dashboard. They just happen to cover the VIN. I have never had a problem with the police, so I am assuming that is not illegal to cover your VIN.

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