Trim tag rivets

[John H.]

Re: Thanks one and all for the responses

Law enforcement takes the OEM perspective of VIN stamps, plates, and rivets VERY seriously. When I was the Viper Plant Manager, the FBI and Michigan State Police showed up about once a year, unannounced, and spent several hours on the plant floor each time, performing a security audit on those operations. They checked our records on receipt/disbursement of blank VIN plates each day from the Comptroller's safe to the locked cage containing the Addressograph machine our gal used to produce the plates, records/retention of damaged (or typo'd) plates, receiving/daily disbursement of "rosette" rivets to the line operator who installed the VIN plate and return to the cage of any not used, and checked that we were pin-stamping the "hidden" VINs on the frame and the VINs on the engine and transmission exactly as specified on the drawings they had been provided by Chrysler. These people don't take this stuff lightly, and made sure I didn't either.

[Terry M.]

Re: Thanks one and all for the responses

Then you probably don't want to know the details of the theft of a set of stamps for the engine/transmission VIN derivative from Bowling Green. Shortly after that incident they went to the computerized pin stamp process. A lot harder to steal that machine than a wooden box of stamps.