Based in the UK and need your VIN number

CarlP · Post by **CarlP** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 7:32 pm

Hi,

Just discovered this trick which may be of help to someone.. It worked for me

1. Go to this website http://www.247spares.co.uk and enter your car registration number, then press the green arrow..
2. On the page which come up (hopefully with your car), depending on your browser, view the page source (the html code behind the webpage). On some browsers it's a right click on the page and select view source
Do a search in the code for VIN and your VIN number should be next to it ...
Search for ENGINENUMBER if you want the engine number ...

Carl

Post by **Charles** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:09 pm

Sounds like the perfect website to allow ringers to clone a car

v8 ego · Post by **v8 ego** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:19 pm

It does the VIN on my 7 but not my engine number

MCB · Post by **MCB** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:02 pm

I am not even going to try.

As Charles said it is a perfect way to harvest a cars details and then use it for who knows what!

nealpina · Post by **nealpina** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:37 pm

To be fair, and ALPINA are the exception because of the location of the VIN, however it is no different to someone walking up to a car and obtaining the VIN from the windscreen

This company are likely paying the DVLA to access their database, and then accessing another database to view all the parts. However it still does not excuse their website from being buggy and not hiding the VIN in the source code. The developer who created this website may not even know about this bug, if he does then they are up to no good.

Not sure what the legal implications are: but the DVLA must have strict rules with who can view the VIN numbers, if they do then this website is in trouble.