Thursday, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:42
Hi,
We were the unfortunate victims when our relatively new padlocked and chained tent camper trailer was stolen from our driveway during the day in early 2000.
It was pretty upsetting and almost ruined a long planned 3 month holiday with the wife and kids in QLD.
We never got the camper back. Thank-fully it and it's contents were insured.
With regard to being re-birthed etc. For a tent camper trailer (ours looked like the one in the expoloroz picture that comes up on this page), I would imagine that it would be quite easy to do.
The camper "VIN" plate was simply riveted onto the tailgate and the VIN number was just engraved on the plate.
Apart from the rego plate, the VIN plate and the manufacturers transfers (plastic stickers) that was all that identified the camper trailer. Pretty easy to remove.
Imagine my surprise when down at the local caravan supply place (some time later) I found that you could by new blank camper / caravan VIN plates.
To be fair I think that the Average Joe would be hard pressed to know if a camper like the one we had stolen had new plates etc.
Things might have changed, but one area that possibly needs better regulation is the technical requirements for identity markers on campers. ie Stamping of VIN numbers on different structural elements on trailers etc.
Cheers,
Mal
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